Divines & Divas

La perfetta illusione

Marco Grondona
Aakademos & LIM

Divertimenti per Dio

Armando Torno, Pier Angelo Sequeri
Edizioni Piemme

Il canto della fabbrica

Fondazione Pirelli
Mondadori

Carlo Galeffi e la Scala

Rodolfo Celletti
Teatro alla Scala / Electa Editrice

I costumi della Traviata

Massimo Mila
Edizioni Studio Tesi

William Christie et Les Arts Florissants

Catherine Massip, Gérard D. Khoury
Images En Manoeuvres Editions

The politicized muse

Anthony M. Cummings
Princeton University Press

During the years between the restoration of the Medici to Florence and the election of Cosimo I, the Medici family sponsored a series of splendid public festivals, reconstructed here by Anthony M. Cummings. Cummings has utilized unexpectedly rich sources of information about the musical life of the time in contemporary narrative accounts of these occasions--histories, diaries, and family memoirs. In this interdisciplinary work, he explains how the festivals combined music with art and literature to convey political meanings to Florentine observers. As analyzed by Cummings, the festivals document the political transformation of the city in the crucial era that witnessed the end of the Florentine republic and the beginnings of the Medici principate. This book will interest all students of the life and institutions of sixteenth-century Florence and of the Medici family. In addition, the author furnishes new evidence about the contexts for musical performances in early modern Europe. By describing such contexts, he ascertains much about how music was performed and how it sounded in this period of music history and shows that the modes of musical expression were more varied than is suggested by the relatively few surviving examples of actual pieces of music.

Originally published in 1992.

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Il tamburo di Shiva

Alain Daniélou
Casadeilibri Editore

Alias Bob Dylan

Marco Denti
Selene Edizioni

"Alias Bob Dylan" racconta i sogni, le speranze e poi le delusioni e i drammi di chi rimase abbagliato dal luogo comune del Nuovo Dylan. Una vera e propria Odissea dei nostri tempi. Utilizzando sempre fonti primarie, ovvero le voci dei protagonisti, cantautori che non ebbero e non avranno le fortune di Bob Dylan, ma che scoprirono, a spese loro, le contraddizioni e il cinismo dell'industria dello spettacolo. Un lavoro di ricerca accurato e dettagliato che viene però narrato senza pretese intellettuali, ma con il tono di chi ha scoperto delle storie, magari crude e non sempre a lieto fine, ma troppo belle per non essere raccontate.

La musica immaginata

Marco Anelli
Federico Motta Editore

Sulle corde del mandolino

Marino Anesa
Sistema Bibliotecario Urbano - Archivio della Cultura di base

Modern American Music

Otto Karolyi
Cygnus Arts

In this, Otto Karolyi's fourth book, he explores the rich traditions of twentieth-century American music which have helped to forge the country's artistic identity and to establish a canon of important American works. He begins by tracing the history of popular folk songs, Negro spirituals, psalms and hymns which together created an independent music with a distinct character. But it was the free pioneering spirit and inventiveness of Charles Ives which mark him as the first great American composer of the century. At the same time, popular styles such as Gospel, blues, ragtime, jazz and Tin Pan Alley were exerting an enormous influence on the national consciousness. A new breed of composer who blended these disparate ideas followed, notably George Gershwin.