Archival Notes – Fondazione Giorgio Cini

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

The eighth issue of Archival Notes is available for download and consultation on the OJS platform of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Archival Notes No. 7

Articles

Luk Vaes, «Aus dem Nachlaß»: Sedimentation in Mauricio Kagel’s «Tactil» and «Unter Strom»
Marco Cosci, Altering «A(lter)A(ction)»? Egisto Macchi Then and Now
Filipa Magalhães, Constança Capdeville’s Personal Archive: Difficulties in Describing and Documenting Performative Practices
Luisa Santacesaria e Valentina Bertolani, «Suite “colori”» by Mario Bertoncini: From Performance to Archival Research
Marco Fusi, Fingers to Sounds, Sounds to Fingers: Creative Interaction with Giacinto Scelsi’s Archival Materials as Means to Devise Performance Practices of His Music
Landon Morrison, On the Horizon of Digital Technics in Kaija Saariaho’s «IO» and «Nymphéa»

Perspectives

Marco Angius, ‘E la mente annullata naufraga nel vento’: A New Appraisal of Giacomo Manzoni’s «Parole da Beckett» from the Perspective of a Conductor

Documents and Reports

Gianmario Borio, «Research-led Performance»: Report on an Ongoing Project
Luisa Santacesaria e Giulia Sarno, Ctrl+s | Conversations on the survival of electronic music

The seventh issue of Archival Notes is available for download and consultation on the OJS platform of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Archival Notes No. 6

Articles

Giuliano Danieli, Echoes of Folk Music in Roman Vlad’s Documentary Soundtracks: Intersections between Cinema, Ethnomusicology and Exoticism
Alessandra Origani, Ernesto Rubin de Cervin: Scenes from his Cultural Biography
Gabriele Sfarra, Three ‘Meditazioni’ by Giovanni Salviucci
Maria Marta Vitale, Egisto Macchi’s ‘Pocket’ La bohème: Innovation and Tradition in the Reduction of Puccini’s Masterpiece

Focus

Miriam Akkermann, Systematising (at) the Present for the Future: Reflections on Archiving Electroacoustic Music
Laura Zattra, The Electroacoustic Music Archives at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: A Review of the Camillo Togni, Fausto Romitelli and Giacomo Manzoni Collections

Documents and Reports

Luigi Collarile, Andrea Gabrieli for Igor Stravinsky (Venice, 15 April 1971): The Choice of Sandro Dalla Libera
Carlo Ferdinando de Nardis, A Musical Notebook by Alfredo Casella: Quaderno 9 (1924–1926)

The sixth issue of Archival Notes is available for download and consultation on the OJS platform of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Archival Notes No. 5

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

Angela Carone, Publications and Activities

The fifth issue of Archival Notes is available for download and consultation on the OJS platform of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Archival Notes No. 4

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

Paola Cossu, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Esalazioni epurative
Angela Carone, Publications and Activities

The fourth issue of Archival Notes is available for download and consultation on the OJS platform of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Archival Notes No. 3

Preface

Articles

Nicolò Palazzetti, From Paris to Rome. Alfredo Casella and Béla Bartók in the Early Twentieth Century
Federica Di Gasbarro, Igor Stravinsky by Way of Alfredo Casella and Gian Francesco Malipiero
Christoph Neidhöfer, Character and Form by Way of Integral Serialism: An Analysis of «Fantasia concertante» (1957) by Camillo Togni
Marida Rizzuti, ‘The Sound of Industry’. Some Reflections on the Genesis and the Content of «Diagramma Circolare» by Alberto Bruni Tedeschi
Elena Salza, Egisto Macchi and Antonin Artaud: from «A(lter)A(ction)» to «München-Requiem» and Beyond
Ingrid Pustijanac, Spectral Morphology and Space in Fausto Romitelli’s «Natura morta con fiamme»

Focus

Gianmario Borio, Music Archives in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Politics and Technology
Dörte Schmidt, ‘The Darmstadt Events’. Archival Strategies, Music-Historical Work and Cultural-Political Research Perspectives on the Development of the Digital Archive

Documents and Reports

Angela Carone, Publications and Activities

The third issue of Archival Notes is available for download and consultation on the OJS platform of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Archival Notes. Source Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Music

An open-access, peer-reviewed journal, curated by the Institute of Music of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and published annually.

Archival Notes is dedicated to research on musical sources from the 20th and 21st centuries, promoting a variety of interdisciplinary approaches. The journal not only highlights the musical collections held by the Foundation but also supports the development of international relations in the field of music heritage preservation.
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No. 1 (2016)
No. 2 (2017)
No. 3 (2018)
No. 4 (2019)
No. 5 (2020)
No. 6 (2021)
No. 7 (2022)
No. 8 (2023)
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