edited by the Institute of Music Archives

Archival Notes No. 8

An open-access, peer-reviewed journal, curated by the Institute for Music of the Giorgio Cini Foundation. With an interdisciplinary approach, Archival Notes. Source Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Music is dedicated to the research of musical sources from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Articles

Claudia Di Luzio, Rendering Voices Independent – Smorfie and Sogni: On the Dramaturgy and Text-Music Relationship in Fausto Razzi’s Music Theatre Work
Luigi Manfrin, Fausto Romitelli’ “Syntactic Pertinences” of Timbre: Analytical Notes on Lesson II of Professor Bad Trip
Franco Sciannameo, Nino Rota. Sonata per viola e pianoforte (1934-35): Genesis and Performing Alternatives
Francesca Scigliuzzo, Searching for Something Other Than Sound: Proposal for a Study of the Materials for Domenico Guaccero and Michiko Hirayama’s Esercizi per voce sola (1965; 1971)
Paolo Somigli, Music in Interaction With Other Arts: Florence in the 1960s and the Experience of Gruppo 70

A Performer’s Eye

Aldo Orvieto, Notational Aspects in the Piano Works of Camillo Togni (1937-47): The Case of the Sonata Op. 9 for Cello and Piano

Articles

Norberto Cordisco Respighi, Financial Aspects in the Correspondence between Respighi and his Publishers
Anna Giust, The Ways to Russia of Alfredo Casella
Pietro Milli, Dialectics and Matter in the Aesthetics of Giacomo Manzoni
Nicholas Moroz, Hacking the Hallucinatory: Investigating Fausto Romitelli’s Compositional Process through Sketch Studies of «Professor Bad Trip: Lesson I»

Focus

Giorgio Biancorosso, The Appraisal of Film Music Sources: the Case of «Rear Window» (Paramount, 1954)
David George Cooper, The Trevor Jones Archive: Issues in the Establishment and Management of a Film and Television Music Archive

A Performer’s Eye

Jonathan Brandani, A Last Version of «Napoli milionaria»: Nino Rota’s Revision Process after the Spoleto World Première
Elena Casoli, ‘Vibrante, luminoso!’ Signs, Language, Sound Research and Musical Invention in Fausto Romitelli’s «Solare» for Classical Guitar

Documents and Reports

Articles

Joanna E Helms, Telecoms, spaceship doors and singing animals: La Fantarca and Roman Vlad’s electronic music
Laura Mazzagufo, Tre poesie di Montale by Roman Vlad: compositional techniques and text correspondences
Jesse Rosenberg, Jan Meyerowitz and Musical Italy
Antonio Marongiu, Electro-acoustic sound quality in instrumental music: Amply 1 by Franco Oppo

Documents and Reports

Gianmario Borio, Preface

Paolo Dal Molin, Introduction

Publishing Composers’ Letters

Denis Herlin, Debussy’s Letters: Recipients, Current Locations, Current Concerns
Katharina Bleier, Therese Muxeneder, The Correspondence between Arnold Schoenberg and Universal Edition
Andreas Meyer, The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence: Background, Archival Conditions, and Editorial Practice
László Vikárius, Béla Bartók’s Correspondence
Angela Ida De Benedictis, Some Experiences in Editing ‘the Body of Thoughts’ of Lachenmann, Maderna, Mila and Nono

Glimpses from the Archives

Werner Grünzweig, Some Thoughts on the Music Archives Held by the Berlin Akademie der Künste
Pierluigi Ledda, The Correspondence Collection of the Archivio Storico Ricordi: a Key Component of a Future European Network of Archives
Gabriele Dotto, The Growing Importance of Archives for Performers and Publishers (not just Historians): The Case of the Archivio Storico Ricordi
Piotr Maculewicz, Letters in the Archives of Polish Composers at the University of Warsaw Library
Paolo Dal Molin, Accessing Luigi Nono’s Correspondence: a User’s Perspective
Angela Carone, Francisco Rocca, Correspondences in the Musical Archives of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini, Dear Giacinto: Letters from the Multimedia Archive of the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi
Nada Bezić, Musicians’ Correspondence in Zagreb: the Case of Blagoje Bersa
Sylvia Freydank, Letters within a Comprehensive Research Tool: Archive Digitisation at the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt

Perspectives

Friedemann Sallis, Regina Landwehr, Musicians’ Correspondence and Interaction Between Archives: Remarks from a Canadian Perspective

Documents and Reports

Francisco Rocca, Angela Carone, The Composer’s Mailbox: Documents from the Musical Archives of the Fondazione Cini
Angela Carone, Publications and Activities