This volume gives on overview on the history of musical instruments in Sicily from Ancient Times to the Present. It includes essays by Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano (Musical instruments in Sicilian Collections), Sergio Bonanzinga (Traditional... more
This volume gives on overview on the history of musical instruments in Sicily from Ancient Times to the Present. It includes essays by Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano (Musical instruments in Sicilian Collections), Sergio Bonanzinga (Traditional Sicilian Musical Instruments), Angela Bellia (Archaelogical Musical Instruments in Siciliy), Selima Giuliano and Sandra Proto (The Decoration of Musical Instruments in Sicilian Collections). Furthermore, the catalogue includes 100 entries of instruments in Sicilian museums and collections (idiophones, membranophones, woodwind and brass instruments, necked bowed and plucked-string instruments, keyboard instruments, mechanical instruments). 256 pages; c. 250 colour photographs and drawings; texts in Italian (the book is available for free, please contact me for further information).
An overview on Italian pioneers of microtonal music (ca. 1920-1960), with a special focus on Edoardo Cavallini, Professor of "Armonia pluricromatica" at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in the 40's, and his pupil and assistant Emilio Scarani.
