Composition and Experimentation in British Rock:1966-1976

Composition and Experimentation in British Rock:1966-1976
International Conference curated by Gianmario Borio and Serena Facci,
Department of Musicology of the University of Pavia, Cremona
With: Fondazione Walter Stauffer – Comune di Cremona – Provincia di
Cremona - IASPM Italia
Cremona - October 20-22, 2005
PROGRAM
20 october 2005
9,30 a.m. Cremona, Museo Civico "Ala Ponzone", Sala Puerari
Opening
10 a.m.-1.00 p.m.
The Cultural Landscape
Chairman: Maurizio Agamennone (Università di Firenze)
John Covach (University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music), The Hippie Aesthetic:
Cultural Positioning and Musical Ambition in Early Progressive Rock
Franco Fabbri (Università di Torino), Non al primo ascolto: il rock inglese dal 1960 al 1967
[Not at the First Listening: English Rock between 1960 and 1967]
Veniero Rizzardi (Università di Venezia), Il rock e l'autocritica del compositore [Rock and
the Composer's Critical Self-Reflection]
***
3-6 p.m. Museo Civico "Ala Ponzone", Sala Puerari
New Instruments and New Technologies
Chairman: Giordano Montecchi(Conservatorio di Parma)
Christophe Pirenne (Université de Liège), Romanticism vs Economy: Technologies and
the Growth of Progressive Rock
Lelio Camilleri (Conservatorio di Bologna), Loop, trasformazioni e spazio sonoro [Loop,
Transformations and Sound Space]
Laura Leante (Open University, Cambridge), Aspetti multimediali dell'esibizione
concertistica [Multimedia Aspects of the Concert Performance]
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21 october 2005
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Museo Civico "Ala Ponzone", Sala Puerari
Compositional Techniques
Chairman: Marco Mangani (Università di Pavia)
Mark Spicer (Hunter College of the City University of New York), Genesis’s Foxtrot
Allan Moore (University of Surrey), Gentle Giant's Octopus
Vincenzo Caporaletti (Università di Macerata), Soft Machine's Third
-----------------------------------------------------------------------5 p.m. Palazzo Cittanova
Work-shop
“Compositional Technique in Progressive Rock”
with Chris Cutler (Henry Cow) drums, Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) electric
bass, Antonio Pagliuca (ex Orme) keyboards,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------22 october 2005
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Museo Civico "Ala Ponzone", Sala Puerari
Poetry and Song
Chairman: Stefano La Via (Università di Pavia)
Dai Griffiths (Brookes University, Oxford), Memorable music, forgettable words?
Dilemmas of song in British progressive rock between underground and mainstream, circa
1972.
Roberto Agostini (Università di Pisa), Luca Marconi (Università di Bologna), Voce,
melodia e parole nel primo progressive rock inglese [Voice, Melody and Words in the
Early English Progressive Rock]
Paolo Cecchi (Università di Bologna), Il tricheco, la stanza bianca e il ladro: sul connubio
tra testo e musica nel rock britannico d'avanguardia [The Walrus, the White Room and the
Thief: the Marriage of Text and Music in British Avant-garde Rock]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------ore 3 p.m.- 5 p.m. Museo Civico "Ala Ponzone", Sala Puerari
Round Table
"Compositional Techniques at the croassroad of Genres"
with Mario Garuti (Conservatorio di Milano), Maurizio Pisati
(Conservatorio di Castelfranco Veneto) e Nicola Sani (Fondazione Scelsi
Roma).