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](History of Music in 19th-century Italy and France. Translation of Midori Sonoda of: Italia e Fran... more History of Music in 19th-century Italy and France. Translation of Midori Sonoda of: Italia e Francia nell'Ottocento ("Storia della musica" a cura della Società italiana di musicologia, vol. 9), Turin: EDT, 1993
Bollettino di studi belliniani - Rivista digitale del Centro Studi Belliniani e della Fondazione Bellini, 2022
Chigiana. Journal of musicological studies, 2022
Texts from the international conference, Siena, Accademia musicale Chigiana, December 2-4, 2021. ... more Texts from the international conference, Siena, Accademia musicale Chigiana, December 2-4, 2021.
INDICE / TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fabrizio Della Seta e Massimiliano Locanto
Introduzione
MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF POWER
James Garratt
Music, Mimetic Manipulation and the Politics of Power in Imperial Germany
Axel Körner
Music, Power, and Changing Semantics of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century
STRUCTURES OF POWER IN MUSIC THEATRE
Carlotta Sorba
Nobilissime logge per la Real Corte. Usi, pratiche, significati dei palchi reali nei teatri italiani del primo Ottocento
Mark Everist
Opera in the Bathroom: Power, Personality and opéra de salon During the Second Empire
Sonja Starkmeth
Topsy-Turvy or Mainstream? Power Structures in Late Victorian Popular Musical Theatre
Francesco Fontanelli
«Sei er gefehmt, sei er gebannt!» Il destino degli oppressi e dei redenti, da Tannhäuser a Parsifal
MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE POLITICS OF POWER
Galliano Ciliberti
La Chapelle Royale durante la “Restaurazione” (1814-1830): cerimoniale e ritualizzazione del quotidiano come instrumentum regni
Caiti Hauck
Choral Societies and Political Power in the Cities of Bern and Fribourg in the 19th century
Verena Paul
Playing for Supremacy, or The International Contest of Military Bands in 1867
MUSIC, COLONIAL POWER, AND INDUSTRY IN A GLOBAL SPACE
Salvatore Morra
The Tunisian Mālūf during French Protectorate: Power and Decolonisation
Paolo Prato
Exporting Naples: Geopolitics and Transculturality, from Io te vojo bene assaje to Caruso
Alessandro Avallone – Emanuele Franceschetti
Potere e influenza dell’industria culturale: musica e immagini nella pubblicistica primonovecentesca targata Ricordi
Bollettino di studi belliniani - Rivista digitale del Centro Studi Belliniani e della Fondazione Bellini, 2021
Online journal of the Centro di Studi Belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
Bellini, Apr 7, 2022
Life and works of Vincenzo Bellini. This monograph examines all the operas from a literary, music... more Life and works of Vincenzo Bellini. This monograph examines all the operas from a literary, musical, and theatrical point of view without neglecting the sacred, chamber, and instrumental output. The composer's life is read in its historical-social and economic context.
Il volume raccoglie ventisette contributi di argomento musicologico raggruppati in ambiti tematic... more Il volume raccoglie ventisette contributi di argomento musicologico raggruppati in ambiti tematici quali la storiografia della musica, l’esegesi e l’analisi testuale, la drammaturgia, il teatro musicale e la sua diffusione, le relazioni fra musica e culture letterarie, e include due sezioni dedicate rispettivamente a Beethoven e a Verdi. Le questioni affrontate, con l’ampio spettro metodologico che occupano, rispecchiano i vasti interessi e ambiti di indagine di Fabrizio Della Seta, al quale la raccolta di studi è dedicata in occasione del ritiro dall’insegnamento accademico. Durante tutta la sua lunga attività di studio, Fabrizio Della Seta ha contribuito con saggi fondamentali ai temi di indagine qui riuniti, rendendone fecondo il dialogo. Questi intrecci evidenziano l’inscindibile legame fra ‘ragione’ storico-filologica e ‘pazzia’ artistico-performativa che nutre da sempre la complessità dell’arte musicale occidentale, del suo linguaggio, delle sue trasformazioni, del suo uso e della sua interpretazione. Scavando nella profondità di tale legame, emerge quanto il contributo intellettuale e il magistero del festeggiato abbiano concorso alla formazione e alla crescita di una comunità di studiosi ampia, internazionale e transgenerazionale.
Saggi di Gianmario Borio, Deborah Burton, Daniele Carnini, Damien Colas Gallet, Angela Ida De Benedictis, Serena Facci, Francesco Fontanelli, Michela Garda, Anselm Gerhard, Michele Girardi, Francesco Izzo, Stefano La Via, Lewis Lockwood, Andrea Malnati, Candida Billie Mantica, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Franco Piperno, Alessandro Roccatagliati, Angela Romagnoli, Daniele Sabaino, Tommaso Sabbatini, Graziella Seminara, Gloria Staffieri, Alice Tavilla, Anna Tedesco, Rodobaldo Tibaldi, Luca Zoppelli.
The Modern Language Review, 1992
Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, 1991
Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Go... more Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension between madness and reason, "Not without Madness" presents new analytical approaches to thinking about eighteenth - and nineteenth-century opera through the lenses of its historical and cultural contexts. In these twelve essays, Fabrizio Della Seta explores the concept of opera as a dramatic event and an essential moment in the history of theater. Examining the meaning of opera and the devices that produce and transmit this meaning, he looks at the complex verbal, musical, and scenic mechanisms in parts of "La sonnambula", "Ernani", "Aida", "Le nozze di Figaro", "Macbeth", and "Il trovatore". He argues that approaches to the study of opera must address performance, interpretation, composition, reception, and cultural ramifications. Purely musical analysis does not make sense unless we take into account music's dramatic function. Containing many essays available for the first time in English, Not without Madness bridges recent divisions in opera studies and will attract musicologists, musicians, and opera lovers alike.
Bollettino di studi belliniani N. 6, 2020
Online journal of the Centro di Studi Belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
The Bollettino di studi belliniani, an online journal promoted by the Centro Studi Belliniani and... more The Bollettino di studi belliniani, an online journal promoted by the Centro Studi Belliniani and the Fondazione Bellini, welcomes proposals for publication of articles focusing on the figure and work of Vincenzo Bellini, his historical-social environment and, in general, the theatrical world, linguistic, literary, and figurative culture related to opera in early nineteenth-century Italy.
Bollettino di Studi belliniani N. 5, 2019
Online journal of the Centro di Studi Belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
Bollettino di studi belliniani, 2018
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi, Aug 2018
Numero speciale del "Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi" a cura di Daniele Carnini
Bollettino di studi belliniani, 2017
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, C... more Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, Catania
Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata, Critical Edition - Study Score, edited by / a cura di Fabrizio Della Seta, Chicago - London, The University of Chicago Press, Milano, Ricordi, 2017
Paperback corrected reprint of the critical edition published in 1996 as part of "Works of / Le... more Paperback corrected reprint of the critical edition published in 1996 as part of "Works of / Le opere di Giuseppe Verdi," Series I, Operas / Opere teatrali, Vol. 19. The critical commentary for this volume, in English and Italian, is available for free of charge at VerdiEdition.org.
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, C... more Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, Catania
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, C... more Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, Catania
History of Music in 19th-century Italy and France. Translation of Midori Sonoda of: Italia e Fran... more History of Music in 19th-century Italy and France. Translation of Midori Sonoda of: Italia e Francia nell'Ottocento ("Storia della musica" a cura della Società italiana di musicologia, vol. 9), Turin: EDT, 1993
Bollettino di studi belliniani - Rivista digitale del Centro Studi Belliniani e della Fondazione Bellini, 2022
Chigiana. Journal of musicological studies, 2022
Texts from the international conference, Siena, Accademia musicale Chigiana, December 2-4, 2021. ... more Texts from the international conference, Siena, Accademia musicale Chigiana, December 2-4, 2021.
INDICE / TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fabrizio Della Seta e Massimiliano Locanto
Introduzione
MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF POWER
James Garratt
Music, Mimetic Manipulation and the Politics of Power in Imperial Germany
Axel Körner
Music, Power, and Changing Semantics of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century
STRUCTURES OF POWER IN MUSIC THEATRE
Carlotta Sorba
Nobilissime logge per la Real Corte. Usi, pratiche, significati dei palchi reali nei teatri italiani del primo Ottocento
Mark Everist
Opera in the Bathroom: Power, Personality and opéra de salon During the Second Empire
Sonja Starkmeth
Topsy-Turvy or Mainstream? Power Structures in Late Victorian Popular Musical Theatre
Francesco Fontanelli
«Sei er gefehmt, sei er gebannt!» Il destino degli oppressi e dei redenti, da Tannhäuser a Parsifal
MUSICAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE POLITICS OF POWER
Galliano Ciliberti
La Chapelle Royale durante la “Restaurazione” (1814-1830): cerimoniale e ritualizzazione del quotidiano come instrumentum regni
Caiti Hauck
Choral Societies and Political Power in the Cities of Bern and Fribourg in the 19th century
Verena Paul
Playing for Supremacy, or The International Contest of Military Bands in 1867
MUSIC, COLONIAL POWER, AND INDUSTRY IN A GLOBAL SPACE
Salvatore Morra
The Tunisian Mālūf during French Protectorate: Power and Decolonisation
Paolo Prato
Exporting Naples: Geopolitics and Transculturality, from Io te vojo bene assaje to Caruso
Alessandro Avallone – Emanuele Franceschetti
Potere e influenza dell’industria culturale: musica e immagini nella pubblicistica primonovecentesca targata Ricordi
Bollettino di studi belliniani - Rivista digitale del Centro Studi Belliniani e della Fondazione Bellini, 2021
Online journal of the Centro di Studi Belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
Bellini, Apr 7, 2022
Life and works of Vincenzo Bellini. This monograph examines all the operas from a literary, music... more Life and works of Vincenzo Bellini. This monograph examines all the operas from a literary, musical, and theatrical point of view without neglecting the sacred, chamber, and instrumental output. The composer's life is read in its historical-social and economic context.
Il volume raccoglie ventisette contributi di argomento musicologico raggruppati in ambiti tematic... more Il volume raccoglie ventisette contributi di argomento musicologico raggruppati in ambiti tematici quali la storiografia della musica, l’esegesi e l’analisi testuale, la drammaturgia, il teatro musicale e la sua diffusione, le relazioni fra musica e culture letterarie, e include due sezioni dedicate rispettivamente a Beethoven e a Verdi. Le questioni affrontate, con l’ampio spettro metodologico che occupano, rispecchiano i vasti interessi e ambiti di indagine di Fabrizio Della Seta, al quale la raccolta di studi è dedicata in occasione del ritiro dall’insegnamento accademico. Durante tutta la sua lunga attività di studio, Fabrizio Della Seta ha contribuito con saggi fondamentali ai temi di indagine qui riuniti, rendendone fecondo il dialogo. Questi intrecci evidenziano l’inscindibile legame fra ‘ragione’ storico-filologica e ‘pazzia’ artistico-performativa che nutre da sempre la complessità dell’arte musicale occidentale, del suo linguaggio, delle sue trasformazioni, del suo uso e della sua interpretazione. Scavando nella profondità di tale legame, emerge quanto il contributo intellettuale e il magistero del festeggiato abbiano concorso alla formazione e alla crescita di una comunità di studiosi ampia, internazionale e transgenerazionale.
Saggi di Gianmario Borio, Deborah Burton, Daniele Carnini, Damien Colas Gallet, Angela Ida De Benedictis, Serena Facci, Francesco Fontanelli, Michela Garda, Anselm Gerhard, Michele Girardi, Francesco Izzo, Stefano La Via, Lewis Lockwood, Andrea Malnati, Candida Billie Mantica, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Franco Piperno, Alessandro Roccatagliati, Angela Romagnoli, Daniele Sabaino, Tommaso Sabbatini, Graziella Seminara, Gloria Staffieri, Alice Tavilla, Anna Tedesco, Rodobaldo Tibaldi, Luca Zoppelli.
The Modern Language Review, 1992
Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, 1991
Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Go... more Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension between madness and reason, "Not without Madness" presents new analytical approaches to thinking about eighteenth - and nineteenth-century opera through the lenses of its historical and cultural contexts. In these twelve essays, Fabrizio Della Seta explores the concept of opera as a dramatic event and an essential moment in the history of theater. Examining the meaning of opera and the devices that produce and transmit this meaning, he looks at the complex verbal, musical, and scenic mechanisms in parts of "La sonnambula", "Ernani", "Aida", "Le nozze di Figaro", "Macbeth", and "Il trovatore". He argues that approaches to the study of opera must address performance, interpretation, composition, reception, and cultural ramifications. Purely musical analysis does not make sense unless we take into account music's dramatic function. Containing many essays available for the first time in English, Not without Madness bridges recent divisions in opera studies and will attract musicologists, musicians, and opera lovers alike.
Bollettino di studi belliniani N. 6, 2020
Online journal of the Centro di Studi Belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
The Bollettino di studi belliniani, an online journal promoted by the Centro Studi Belliniani and... more The Bollettino di studi belliniani, an online journal promoted by the Centro Studi Belliniani and the Fondazione Bellini, welcomes proposals for publication of articles focusing on the figure and work of Vincenzo Bellini, his historical-social environment and, in general, the theatrical world, linguistic, literary, and figurative culture related to opera in early nineteenth-century Italy.
Bollettino di Studi belliniani N. 5, 2019
Online journal of the Centro di Studi Belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
Bollettino di studi belliniani, 2018
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini
Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi, Aug 2018
Numero speciale del "Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi" a cura di Daniele Carnini
Bollettino di studi belliniani, 2017
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, C... more Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, Catania
Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata, Critical Edition - Study Score, edited by / a cura di Fabrizio Della Seta, Chicago - London, The University of Chicago Press, Milano, Ricordi, 2017
Paperback corrected reprint of the critical edition published in 1996 as part of "Works of / Le... more Paperback corrected reprint of the critical edition published in 1996 as part of "Works of / Le opere di Giuseppe Verdi," Series I, Operas / Opere teatrali, Vol. 19. The critical commentary for this volume, in English and Italian, is available for free of charge at VerdiEdition.org.
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, C... more Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, Catania
Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, C... more Online journal of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani and Fondazione Bellini, Catania
Studi verdiani, 2023
The article states the usefulness of genetic study (sketches and corrections in autograph scores)... more The article states the usefulness of genetic study (sketches and corrections in autograph scores) for the critical edition of musical texts. It examines examples from Verdi (Il trovatore, La traviata, Aida) and Bellini (Beatrice di Tenda).
«Tu duca, tu segnore e tu maestro» Studi in onore di Franco Piperno, 2023
The article examines the use of reticence in European opera between the late 18th and the mid-19t... more The article examines the use of reticence in European opera between the late 18th and the mid-19th century. It has often been the subject of literary studies but rarely applied to theatrical texts, where, instead, it is an essential dramaturgical tool given that theater is essentially the representation of acts of communication. “Saying not saying” is a functional tool for presenting scabrous or embarrassing content, such as patricide, incest, and generally sex in family relationships, with substantial cultural-historical and anthropological implications. After a historical and theoretical discussion, in which, among other things, the Wagnerian concept of “resonant silence” (tönendes Schweigen) is examined, the theme is exemplified with the analysis of scenes from Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito," Méhul's "Stratonice," Verdi's "Rigoletto" and Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg."
Studi verdiani, May 2022
The composition of Aida in the Sant’Agata papers: a preliminary survey and the genesis of «O ciel... more The composition of Aida in the Sant’Agata papers: a preliminary survey and the genesis of «O cieli azzurri».
The article examines the autograph papers documenting the genesis of Aida, preserved at the Villa Verdi in Sant’Agata. The corpus comprises 345 folios, 38 of which consist of a fair copy of the full score of the discarded Sinfonia. The remaining 307 folios include sections in full score, fragments in skeleton score, continuity drafts and preparatory sketches relating to different phases of the composition as well as fragments of the libretto. Among the papers there are also materials relating to other works: Don Carlos (1867), the String Quartet, and Simon Boccanegra (1881). The article goes on to explore the genesis of two
sections from Aida: a stretta, later discarded, for the first act “terzetto”, and the opening of the third act in the revised version of 1871, including the romanza «O cieli azzurri». Verdi composed the melody of the latter before receiving Ghislanzoni’s verses, having already in mind both the poetic structure and the sentimental content of the piece.
"La traviata" was initially far from a success, Verdi declared its 1853 premiere a &quo... more "La traviata" was initially far from a success, Verdi declared its 1853 premiere a "fiasco," and later reworked parts of five pieces in the first two acts, retaining the original setting for the rest. The first performance of the new version in 1854 was a tremendous success, and the opera was quickly taken up by theatres around the world. This critical edition presents the 1854 version as the main score, and also makes available the full score and the original 1853 settings of the revised pieces. For this text Fabrizio della Seta used the composer's autograph and many secondary sources, but also Verdi's previously unknown sketches. These sketches helped corroborate the original readings and illuminate the work's compositional stages. A detailed critical commentary discusses source problems and anbiguities.
Musica e Storia is a project for a textbook, conceived and supervised by Paolo Fabbri. The secon... more Musica e Storia is a project for a textbook, conceived and supervised by Paolo Fabbri. The second volume consists of six chapters and addresses the period between 1640, which marks the rise of public opera theatre, and 1830, when the Romantic sensibility had become established. The third volume spans the period from 1830 to today, and includes two parts, dedicated to the years before and after the watershed date of 1920. The first volume has already been examined by Dinko Fabris in this periodical (III, 2013, pp. 139-142).
Perspectives on Opera, 2012
Philomusica on-line, 2007
... Con questa proposta un po' provocatoria per il merca... more ... Con questa proposta un po' provocatoria per il mercato, chiuderei l'incontro. Permettetemi di ringraziare ancora una volta i miei 'gioielli', Claudia Cefalo, Paolo Giorgi, Claudio Vellutini e Livio Marcaletti, perché senza di loro sarei impazzita per organizzare questo convegno. ...
Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio
Nuovissimi Studi Corelliani Atti Del Terzo Congresso Internazionale 1982 Isbn 88 222 3096 5 Pags 123 150, 1982
Istituto Lombardo Accademia Di Scienze E Lettere Incontri Di Studio, Jan 25, 2013
Atti Del Xiv Congresso Della Societa Internazionale Di Musicologia Trasmissione E Recezione Delle Forme Di Culture Musicale Vol 3 1990 Isbn 88 7063 070 6 Pags 395 400, 1990
Musica e Storia is a project for a textbook, conceived and supervised by Paolo Fabbri. The second... more Musica e Storia is a project for a textbook, conceived and supervised by Paolo Fabbri. The second volume consists of six chapters and addresses the period between 1640, which marks the rise of public opera theatre, and 1830, when the Romantic sensibility had become established. The third volume spans the period from 1830 to today, and includes two parts, dedicated to the years before and after the watershed date of 1920. The first volume has already been examined by Dinko Fabris in this periodical (III, 2013, pp. 139-142).
Presentazione del libro di Marco Grondona, Tutti pazzi per Marx! Un sera con Francesco Orlando, p... more Presentazione del libro di Marco Grondona, Tutti pazzi per Marx! Un sera con Francesco Orlando, prefazione di Giacomo Magrini, San Giuliano Terme, Djinn, 2019
Pisa, Palazzo Blu, 6 ottobre 2022