This conference will discuss several issues concerning
the theory and interpretation of -performance
analysis-, providing a vast panorama of current
research on this topic. From both a scientific and
musicological, but primarily musical perspective,
the collective communications shall also address
issues related to composition and, more specifically,
interpretation.
The Conservatorio of Reggio Calabria takes part by the
teachers Andrea Calabrese (Scientific Committee Member and lecturer), Francesco Romano
(Erasmus Delegate and Scientific Committee Member), Mario Scappucci (lecturer)
and Sara Zurletti (Scientific Committee Member, organiser and lecturer).
Our goal is to present and establish connections
between theoretical and practical issues of
interpretation, comparing and contrasting them
through different methodologies in order to
assess how the respective disciplinary approaches
are complementary, creating new conditions for
understanding and explaining the artistic and
performative process.
Starting with knowledge of a musical work
and applying this knowledge to its interpretation
and transmission, our inquiries will also include
technological research and data and the role of the
performative act (via performers) in the complex
panorama of the XXIst century.
With 46 participants from academic institutions
as well as national and international research
centers, the conference program is organized under
5 main categories:
1) Musical works in their historical, structural and
aesthetic dimensions
2) Conception and reception of musical phenomena:
composers / performers / listeners as stakeholders
in the sound sphere of the work;
3) Musical and technological research: evaluation of
physical and psychological processes in performance;
4) Performative practices in today’s musical world:
improvisations / gender / performance / mixed
music;
5) The performer the XXIst century.