Ilaria Fusani, born in 1992, studied Arts and Communication in Pisa from 2012 to 2016, where she focused on music history and music librarianship. She developed her Bachelor thesis on music cataloguing (“Music cataloguing: analysis of the methodological evolution and comparative exam of the main catalogues”) during the internship at the University libraries of Pisa. The Bachelor´s degree was followed by a Master´s degree in Musicology and Music Heritage in Bologna from 2016 to 2019. During her Master, she specialized in music palaeography and medieval music. Her Master thesis focused on the 12th-century Ravennate notation sources at the Library of Music of Bologna (“Ravennate notation fragments in the International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna”). Since April 2021, she is a fellow in the Graduate School 2212 "Dynamics of Conventionality (400–1550)". Her doctoral project on the evolution of the Italian notations between the 11th and 12th centuries is conducted as part of the Cotutela agreement between the University of Cologne and the University of Pavia. The research is supervised by Prof. Dr. Frank Hentschel (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Rodobaldo Tibaldi (Uniersity of Pavia), and Prof. Dr. Andreas Haug (University of Würzburg).
Publikationen
Vorträge
Il codice Q.9 del Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna: un graduale ravennate in territorio bolognese, Visibile cantare: testo, immagini e musica nella chiesa di Bologna tra XI e XV secolo, University of Bologna, Medieval Museum of Bologna, 24.-25. Juni 2024 (upcoming).
The evolution of the Ravennate neumes between the 11th and 12th centuries, Latin Chant Notations Study Day, DACT Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission, 22. März 2024.
Il percorso diastematico della notazione ravennate: tra sviluppi intrinseci ed influssi della Nota Romana, La “nota romana”. Identità paleografica e vicende liturgico-culturali entro la riforma della Chiesa nel sec. XI, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, Venice, 1.–2. Dezember 2023.
From orality to writing: on the conventional melodic formulae in the Ravennate tradition, Konventionen des Aufschreiben sim Mittelalter: Akteure, Medien, Praktiken, Graduiertenkollegs 2212: Dynamiken der Konventionalität (400-1550), Universität zu Köln, 26.-27. September 2023.
"The neumatic evolution of the Italian notations: the impact of the staff system in notating performance indications", 20. Forschungskolloquium, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien der Universität zu Köln, Universität zu Köln, 12. Mai 2023.
Ravennate notation sources in Father Martini´s collection, 50th International Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 2022, Uppsala universitet, 4.-7. Juli 2022.
“Every Psalm ends in Glory”: tones and formulae repetitions in Psalms and Gloria Patri. Between textual and musical structure, Wiederholung und
Konventionalität der Kunst, Graduiertenkollegs 2212: Dynamiken der Konventionalität (400-1550), Universität zu Köln, 16.-17. Juni 2022.
The Impact of Staff Notation on the Performance of Chant, Forschungsseminar, Universität Würzburg, 20. Januar 2022.
The list does not include the presentations for the Zweit-Takt Kolloquium of Grako, the A.r.t.e.s. Kolloquiums, as well as the following presentations for the research seminars organized by Prof. Dr. Frank Hentschel:
The neumatic evolution of the Italian notations: the impact of diastematy in notating performance indications, Blockseminar, Universität zu Köln, 3. Februar 2024.
The ornamental neumes in the Italian transition notations: the impact of staff notation on the performative nuances of Gregorian Chant, Blockseminar, Universität zu Köln, 24.-25. Juni 2022.
The ornamental neumes in the Italian transition notations: the impact of staff notation on the performative nuances of Gregorian Chant, Blockseminar, Universität zu Köln, 25. Juni 2021.