Comporre musica per film in ambiente digitale: interviste ai protagonisti (‘Composing Music for Film in the Digital Context: Interviews with Contemporary Italian Composers’). Rome: NeoClassica, 2025 (available in Open Access here)
What does it mean to write music for cinema in the digital age? This volume investigates the profound changes that digital technologies have introduced into the compositional and production practices of film scoring. Through twelve interviews with composers and industry professionals, the book explores the impact of new tools on musical language, working methods, the roles involved, and the archival challenges posed by increasingly immaterial materials. What emerges is a landscape in which creativity engages with software, mockups, and sound libraries, redefining roles, timelines, and processes. The volume thus offers a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of film music, but also for anyone interested in understanding how technology is transforming musical writing for the audiovisual domain and the very modes of preserving and transmitting musical sources.
Teatro alla Scala e promozione culturale nel lungo sessantotto milanese (‘La Scala, Milan, and Cultural Promotion in the Long 1968’). Milan: Amici della Scala-Feltrinelli, 2015
This book explores the social history of Teatro alla Scala by examining the cultural policies developed between the protests of 1968 and the late 1970s, a period often remembered as a moment of unprecedented “opening” to wider social groups. It investigates how the theatre sought to redefine its relationship with the public through initiatives that included low-priced performances, concerts in factories and peripheral venues, and special events for workers and students. Drawing on extensive archival sources as well as oral histories from performers, administrators and audience members, the study offers a critical reassessment of these activities and the motivations that shaped them. By placing these initiatives within the broader trajectory of La Scala’s twentieth-century evolution, the book evaluates both their degree of innovation and their effectiveness in broadening access to musical culture. It also considers the lasting influence of this season of social engagement, which contributed to the creation of a powerful and enduring myth of a theatre committed to promoting artistic education across all social classes.
Siel Agugliaro 