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Parution : Livio Ticli (dir.), “Figured Bass Accompaniment in Europe”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024

At the very end of his new and charming chapter included in this volume, Thomas Christensen sensuously claims that for each generation, figured bass has something new to say, though it rarely gives up its secrets without a fight. This book, therefore, attempts to do justice to the fight lead by sixteen internationally-renowned scholars who ventured mapping the figured bass accompaniment in Europe through a wide timespan: from the early-seventeenth-century Germany to late continuo realisations...

Parution : Luigi Collarile, Maria Rosa De Luca (eds), “Geographies of Sound Sounding and Listening to the Urban Space of Early Modern Italy with a Contemporary Perspective”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023

Sound is an essential element of human experience. It is part of the complex semiotic system that enables human communities to orient themselves in time and space, to be informed, to participate in social life as conscious listeners, capable of deciphering and giving meaning to the collective action of the urban space in which they live. Deeper sound horizons reverberate at different levels on the sonic dimension of reality, contributing to a more complex semantic...