Marco Giuliani

PhD in Musicology (University of Toulouse, France)
Professor of music history at the State Conservatory of Fermo (Italy)

Research sphere and interests

Since 1976 M. Giuliani specializes in the study of Renaissance vocal music, also provides bibliographic research and studies secular vocal music of the XVI-XVII centuries.

Publications

The works by M. Giuliani are published in various international journals and books. Also he has published 24 collections of Renaissance music, wrote dozens of articles. His most important works are: “I lieti amanti, madrigali di venti musicisti ferraresi e non” , (Olschki, 1990) and the publication of the complete works by Enrico Radeski from Foggia in 5 volumes, recently reissued in three volumes and expanded with the research review (L. I. M., 1999, 2001, 2003).

Activities

Marco Giuliani was educated at the Bologna Institute of D. A. M. S. (Disciplina delle arti, Musica e Spettacolo) under the direction of L. Bianconi; at the faculty of music Theory at the University of Bologna under the direction of F. A. Gallo; at the faculty of Electronic music at the Conservatory of Bolzano. He taught history and theory of music at the University of Foggia (Italy).

M. Giuliani has spoken at numerous conferences both in Italy and abroad. Also he develops programs of advanced training and retraining for teachers of middle and high school, conducts training courses at the Institute IPRASE, Trento. At the present he is the Director of the Centre for Research in the Archive of Didactic Documents. He had founded and had been led Celestino Ecker Music School for 9 years. (Trento, Italy).

M. Giuliani has conducted Seminars and Master classes at the Moscow State P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Rostov State S. Rachmaninov Conservatory and now is a permanent member of the Jury Choral Festival and Competition "The Singers of the Third Millennium" (Rostov-on-Don). He is the member of the project M. I. T. I. (Indice della trattatistica musicale italiana ), in collaboration with Professor P. Gargiulo, has studied and systematized 15 musical treatises of the beginning of XVII century.

Also he is the originator and administrator of the multimedia project R. I. M. (Renaissance Italy, Music), which is the most extensive and complete archive in the world repertoire of Italian secular vocal music of the XVI-XVII centuries, the archive is constantly updated. This database contains more than 60,000 elements of the works described in 25 positions. In addition, it presents more than a thousand vocal works, previously unreleased and rewritten by Marco Giuliani from original books, over 23,000 full poetic texts and about 1300 works in audio format.

The scientist is also involved in other multimedia and electronic projects. Since 1997 he has prepared and published several CDs devoted to the problems of the history of music, containing the multimedia hypertext (La musica nei castelli del Medioevo (dal Gregoriano a Dufay) , Enrico Radesca). He participates in several laboratories of electronic music (Savona, Berlin and Termoli), performs in concerts of contemporary improvisation with electronic instruments in the music group “Antisonic”, headed by Professor of the Conservatoire Bolzano K. Benji.