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| Name | Stefano A.E. Leoni |
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| Professional Title | former Professor of Musicology |
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| Bio | Stefano Agostino Emilio Leoni (Genoa, 1958), was a long-time professor of Music History and Musical History and Aesthetics at the Alexandria Conservatory of Music (1983-2000) and then at the Conservatory of Music “G. Verdi” of Turin where he held the chair of Systematic Musicology until 2022. He taught Aesthetics of Music at the CAM (Cinema Arte Music) master’s degree course at the University of Turin. Since November 2022 it has been in quiescience. Former editorial director of the Rugginenti Editore of Milan, he was for a short period (2003) scientific-editorial consultant of the Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. Since 1994 he has been Coordinator of the Permanent Seminar of Philosophy and Sociology of Music of the Association of New Civilization of Machines of Forlì and, from 2004 to 2010, Director of LaMusa, Laboratory of Music and Sociology of the Arts, at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Urbino “C.Bo”. At this University he carried out teaching activities as a contract teacher for integrative courses within the professors of Anthropology, Methodology of Human Sciences and Sociology of Arts and Literature. For several years he was professor in charge of the History of Music course at this University, first in the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (2009-2012), then at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, then at the DiSCum, School of Letters and Cultural Heritage. Visiting Lecturer at the Winter School “The Italian Renaissance: Art, Literature, Political Thought” of the University of Urbino, is a member of the LCA, Lab for the Culture of the Artificial always of the University of Urbino. He held lectures and conferences at various academic institutions, universities (Genoa, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Naples Federico II), foundations and early music schools in Italy and abroad. He teaches Acoustics and Psychoacoustics and Aesthetics of Music in the Training courses for Music Therapists Confiam. Visiting professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia in Granada (a.y. 2006/07), at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid (a.y. 2007/08), the ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory of Istanbul (a.y. 2012/13) and the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias (aa.a. 2017/18 and 2021/22). He worked as a music critic for several publications, including, for a decade, the newspaper Il Manifesto. Stefano Agostino Emilio Leoni since his first researches, he was strongly influenced by the epistemological perspective, so he started working for a long time till now on Theory of Music in Renaissance and Late Middle Age, on European and Arabic musical treatises, on the relationship between Science and Music, on the Music Imagery and on the “Orientalistic” view of Middle East music. He has to his credit as an author, editor or translator, a hundred publications published in Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, UK, USA, Croatia …). As a boy he studied guitar with Eli Tagore and Emilio Pujol and then lute with Federico Orsolino and Sandro Volta. After a long break, he recently resumed his instruments (lutes, viole da mano, baroque guitar, made by Marino Vanara Astori of Savona, Italy, and Alexander Batov, Lewes, UK) He collaborated among other things on: New Encyclopedia of Garzanti Music Universal Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music and Musicians (UTET) The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |
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