‎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

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, x + 286 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:34 b/w, Language(s):English, Italian. ISBN 9782503606767.‎

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‎Summary 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 process of the collective civic rituality and the construction of institutional and individual sound identities. In order to investigate the urban soundscape, it is important to define the nature of the sound phenomena to be examined, but also the dynamics concerning their perception as part of complex anthropological processes. These perspectives can be considered from a historical point of view. The studies collected in this volume aim to investigate sound as an element of urban space in early modern Italy. They consider different phenomenologies investigated through innovative methodological perspectives. Particular importance is given to the sound of urban rituality, to its declinations and local connotations, to its ability to interact with public and private dimensions, to the social and aesthetic dynamics that regulate it, and to the definition of the sonic identity of early modern urban space. TABLE OF CONTENTS LUIGI COLLARILE & MARIA ROSA DE LUCA, Introduction VALERIA DE LUCCA, Regulating Sound and Noise in Seventeenth-Century Rome LUIGI COLLARILE, Ephemerides itineris romani : Experiencing the Sound of Italy in two Swiss Travel Diaries of the Seventeenth-Century UMBERTO CECCHINATO, Suoni pericolosi. Musica sacra, emozioni e disciplinamento dello spazio sonoro nelle chiese venete della prima et moderna ANGELA FIORE, Suoni, spazi, identit della Modena estense GIOVANNI FLORIO, Celebrating the Prince from Afar: Echoes of the Jubilant Terraferma in the Orations to the Newly Elected Doges (XVI-XVII Century) NICOLA USULA, Traditional Music in Seventeenth-Century Operas 'alla Veneziana': Intersections in the Italian Soundscape ELIA PIVETTA, Forms of Circulation of Musical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Giambattista Martini's Risposta to abate Pavona friulano ANGELA FIORE, Urban Spaces and Sound Practices in Neapolitan Female Monasteries Between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries MARIA ROSA DE LUCA, Ritualizing a Resilient City: Soundscape, Collective Performances and Construction of Urban Imaginary GIUSEPPINA LA FACE BIANCONI, La musica come persecuzione. L'inquinamento musicale nelle citt odierne‎