The scientific journal «Nuove Musiche» is the result of a partnership between the Department of Humanities of the University of Palermo and the Prometeo Foundation of Parma. It fills a gap in the present Italian publishing scene, devoid of a high academic profile periodical monographically dedicated to contemporary music. Provided with an international scientific committee, and using peer review procedures, the journal will be released every six months, in multilingual edition, in both digital and printed version. Its object of study is the worldwide field of contemporary music, with a privileged look at the Italian situation.The perspective of «Nuove Musiche» aims at the methodological convergence of the various approaches of musicology: historical, analytical, aesthetic, systematic, semiotic, anthropological, sociological, psycho- and neurological, media-theoretical, economic. That is, at the convergence between musicology itself and the other branches of knowledge, according to an updated ideal of the humanities. Today in Italy the debate on contemporary music takes place mostly in a narrow and separate field. Instead, «Nuove Musiche» aims at integrating the reflection about contemporary music into the cultural life in the broadest sense. Therefore, the journal features scientific studies as well as free contributions by composers, performers, organizers, and addresses the scholarly audience, but also all contemporary music operators anDd all interested people.
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Editoriale – Editorial
Martino Traversa, Stefano Lombardi Vallauri - Editoriale – Editorial
Tradizioni
Paolo Emilio Carapezza, Gian Paolo Minardi - Tradizioni
Vectoriality/Protension in Post-Tonal Music
edited by Stefano Lombardi Vallauri
Stefano Lombardi Vallauri - Introduction
Giovanni Guanti - A friendly reminder: get used to the unheard not to end up devoured
Elisa Negretto - Analysis of the temporal structures underlying the listeners’ experience of tension
Alessandro Cecchi - Formal tension in Energetics and beyond
Alberto E. Colla - The theory of harmonic tension and resolution during the 20th century
Nathalie Hérold - Timbral vectoriality: some considerations in the context of post-tonal music
Giacomo Albert - Vectoriality and protension vs symmetries and endless processes in minimalist music: some reflections stemming from the analysis
of the sketches of Steve Reich’s It’s Gonna Rain
Ingrid Pustijanac - Time’s arrow in spectral music