Filogenesi e ontogenesi della musica - la musica nell'evoluzione delle specie animali e nello sviluppo umano

Mario Botolotto
Adelphi Edizioni

Quando nell'Ottocento la Russia irruppe sulla scena della letteratura, il mutamento fu radicale e irreversibile. Qualcosa di analogo, ma ben più discreto, avvenne con la musica, nata anch'essa d'improvviso, con Glinka, e sviluppatasi poi attraverso una fioritura dove spiccavano maestri sommi quali Musorgskij e popolarissimi come Cajkovskij. Si scoprì in tal modo come a est della Germania, che per secoli aveva rappresentato l'Oriente della musica, si aprisse un altro territorio, immenso, che avrebbe aggiunto una speziatura sino ad allora ignota al mondo dei suoni e scompaginato la nostra stessa abitudine di pensare la musica.

Sergio Durante
Società editrice il Mulino

AA.VV.
s.e.

Marco Grondona
Aakademos & LIM

Rodolfo Celletti
Teatro alla Scala / Electa Editrice

Audrey Roncigli
Zecchini Editore

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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Alain Daniélou
Casadeilibri Editore

Christoph Hahn, Siegmar Hohl
Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag

Marco Anelli
Federico Motta Editore

T.S. Eliot
Bärenreiter Verlag

AA.VV.
Provincia di Milano