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La memoria risonante. Studi e ricerche sulle fonti d’archivio dell’Accademia Musicale Chigiana
Vol. 54 No. III, 6 (2024)The Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena preserves an extraordinarily rich archive and library collection: documents, correspondence, musical autographs, manuscripts, iconographic, photographic and audiovisual materials that tell the story of Italian and international music in the 20th century. The studies collected in this volume present the results of new research conducted on these sources, offering new perspectives on the musical life, repertoires and performers that have enlivened the international concert scene over the last hundred years.
Combining scientific rigour and methodological innovation, La memoria risonante shows how the Chigiana archives are not just a repository of evidence, but a living laboratory of musical ideas and practices. In addition to restoring the complexity of historical events, these studies highlight how the memory preserved in the archives can fuel dialogue between the present and the past, helping to redefine the role of music in contemporary society.Click here to buy a copy.
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Chigiana. Musica e spiritualità dopo la Rivoluzione francese
Vol. 53 No. III, 5 (2023)The French Revolution had a decisive impact on the collective mentality towards religion, accelerating a process of spreading the values of secularism that in the long run resulted in a progressive reduction of the Church's sphere of influence on politics, culture and social life. While the production of sacred music went through a phase of slow decline, direct references or allusions to the domains of religion and spirituality multiplied in secular musical practices. Tracking these clues is the goal of this volume, which aims to open a space for reflection on the possible interactions between secularization and musical practices. Not so much - or not only - to monitor the decline of traditional forms of religious music, but more importantly to ascertain how music has become a field of action in which experiences, ideas, rituals and gestures that have belonged, and in some cases still belong, to the sphere of religion and spirituality, have gradually become intertwined with secular practices.
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