by Susanna Pies,
with interventions: Magrelli Valerio, Anna Proclemer and Antonio Sardi de Letto, Giampiero Moretti, Arrigo Quattrocchi, Giordano Montecchi, Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca, Talia Pecker Berio and Cecilia Panti, Pipierno Franco, John Jury, Pierluigi Petrobelli and Antonio Rostagno, Stefano Zenni, Stefano Catucci, Silvia Boschero, Renata Scognamiglio, Luca Marconi, Susan Franks, Nicola Campogrande, Simone Caputo, Luca Signorini, Susanna Pies.
Rome, Meltemi 2008, pp. 263, € 21.00
To condense a volume from the many faces, we can sum up with Carver: What do we mean when we talk about music? The many statements are offered text by the curator of rallying twenty-two contributors, not to mention them all.
The first part is at the center of the relationship between music and words: the field is left to a poet (Valerio Magrelli), an actress and a pianist (Proclemer Anna and Antonio Sardi de Letto), and a aesthetology, Giampiero Moretti , which traces the history of philosophy of music starting from Kant and Hanslick to reach its most recent formulations (Peter Kivy).
The second section gives a voice to the explanations of the music: the use of hypertext for the transmission of musical knowledge, experience the portal created by Talia Pecker Berio , while the disclosure is told by Arrigo Quattrocchi, Jordan Montague faces the crisis of criticism, listen to the guides (cd books, theater programs, publications distributed to newsstands) are the Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca theme.
In the third and fourth chapter has investigated the difficult challenge of talking about music today, even through the mass media: reflections range from the promotion of music on the radio (Stefano Catucci), jazz (Stefano Zenni), to musical theater ( Petrobelli Pierluigi and Antonio Rostagno). Work on the two TV stations, media sometimes overlooked by musicologists, Luca Marconi (invitations to television) and Suzanne Franks (as the TV shows us the music). Finally the musicians to write music on the one hand the experience of the concert (Luca Signorini), other than the composer Nicola Campogrande: it is a little 'how to get creative in his forge.
pulling the strings the concluding essay by Susanna Pies talk about music, "to learn to see the depths where they are commonplace, and the content holds the promise of the title.
Benedetta Sagle
