Teaching-concerts and conferences

Early Music at casa Cozzi, 2017

The fourth edition of the Early Music at casa Cozzi project will kick off in January 2017, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche and almamusica433, with maestro Stefano Trevisi as its artistic director.

 

The new edition is inspired by the theme of Mimesis, from sign to sound, a theme suggested by the link with another of Fondazione Benetton’s projects, dedicated to Treviso Urbs Picta which deals with the identification and iconographic and stylistic study of the frescoed facades in the town centre. The repertoire of the programme seeks to penetrate the texture of the medieval and renaissance urbs picta to tell of an ideal urbs sonora, establishing a relationship between early music and the frescoes painted on the town’s buildings.

 

The title also draws inspiration from the work by the German philologist Erich Auerbach, Mimesis, the first to deal with the reality depicted in medieval and Renaissance literature; and strengthens the project’s attempt to investigate how, in early music, composers addressed for the first time the need to create a sign that would translate the sound representing the musical idea. Like literature and painting, music also lives off of signs that translate the sounds, but the performer’s personality stands between sound and sign.

 

The concerts will be preceded by teaching-concerts presented by maestro Stefano Trevisi and will alternate with conferences by musicologists and scholars, with the aim of guiding the public through the geography of the signs of early music. Artists and musicologists will take it in turns during the calendar of events to help us understand how essential it is to know the sign to be able to reconstruct the sound of the music score, to what extent this silent sign is able to provide space and ground to manifold interpretations.