Le 29 juin 2017
de 14h30 à 15h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3203
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Stefano Lombardi Vallauri
Since the seminal festival “Settimane Internazionali Nuova Musica” (Palermo, 1960-1968), contemporary Sicilian composers have strived to combine the musical traditions of their cultural area (both popular and academic) with other trends emerging from the rest of the world (namely the continental-Italian, German, French, and American areas). Despite paramount differences, the styles of two major Sicilian post-tonal composers, Salvatore Sciarrino (1947) and Federico Incardona (1958-2006), share some important elements. Both derive from Franco Evangelisti and Sylvano Bussotti the preferential use of noisy, marginal, impure instrumental timbres, integrating them with intervallic choices that refuse the neutralization typical of multi-dimensional serialism. Choosing some representative works by Evangelisti, Bussotti, Sciarrino, and Incardona, my aim is to compare them from the main standpoint of timbral analysis, as timbre is the dimension in which these composers mostly manifest their adhesion to the dominant trends of contemporary composition. However, I will also consider the intervallic systems on which they found their techniques, because in this field they show significant affinities with pre-existing styles. The musical figures constructed in the analysed pieces are inextricably timbral-intervallic figures. Despite the modernity of style, the way in which timbre and intervals are elaborated is still connected to the Italian and Mediterranean tradition.
