Arcana
Edizioni, Rome
2014 November 18
ISBN 978-8862313773
144 pp, paperback, 22 x 14,5 cm
Italian
Giordano Montecchi
Musicologist, teacher
The following excerpt is from article written by Francesco Gentile:
Arcana Edizioni has just published a new
book by Giordano Montecchi, a musicologist and a teacher who
is been listening, studying, discussing, amazing people and
having fun around Frank Zappa since a long time.
He was a prime contributor to the most important Italian conference
devoted to Frank Zappa to date: Frank Zappa Domani, held in
Tivoli (a little town not far from Rome) in 1999.
A book with the same name
has been edited from that conference by Gianfranco Salvatore,
who also edited the new Montecchi book: FRANK ZAPPA – Rock
come prassi compositiva (Arcana, 2014, 144 pages).
Rock as compositional practice. The book extends the
Frank Zappa Domani
essay with the same title. Unfortunately the book has not been
translated into other languages yet, so this blog asked Giordano
and Arcana to reproduce an excerpt here, just to give an idea
of it. Giordano has been extremely kind as usual, as well as
the editor, and provided a short text and the truly stimulating
bibliographical references and web-o-graphy for the book.
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