About the Authors
- About the Authors
francesco finocchiaro (francesco.finocchiaro@univie.ac.at) studied oboe at Catania Conservatory and musicology at the University of Bologna. His doctoral dissertation dealt with Arnold Schönberg’s theory of composition (2006).
His research interests focus on the points of connection between composition, theory, and aesthetics in twentieth-century music. He has published on Schönberg’s work and thought (Il Saggiatore musicale 19 [2012]; Acta Musicologica 87 [2015]) and edited Schönberg’s treatise Der musikalische Gedanke (Astrolabio-Ubaldini, 2011). Other areas of research include film music. He has published intensively on silent film music (MusikTheorie 26, no. 3 [2012]; Palgrave, 2014; Mimesis, 2015) and edited a collected volume on Musica e cinema nella Repubblica di Weimar (Aracne, 2012).
He lectured on theory of harmony and film music at the Universities of Bologna and Vienna, and at Ferrara Conservatory. Since 2013 he has been conducting research into the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema as a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna.
kunio hara (khara@mozart.sc.edu) is assistant professor of music history at the University of South Carolina School of Music. He holds a PhD in musicology from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a MM and BM in music history and clarinet performance from University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. His areas of research include operas of Puccini, exoticism in music, music and nostalgia, and, more recently, sound and music in animation. He has presented papers at various national and international musicological and interdisciplinary conferences. He is currently working on a book project on nostalgia in Puccini’s operas.
valerio sbravatti (valerio.sbravatti@uniroma1.it)is an Italian PhD candidate in music and performing arts (cinema studies) at Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include film sound and film music, sound technology, spatial sound, and auditory cognition. He has published articles and a book (Allegro non troppo. Vedere la musica e ascoltare i disegni, 2015) on sound and music in cinema. His PhD thesis focuses on aesthetical and technological aspects of the spatial dimension of film sound from a cognitive perspective. He studied at Università degli Studi Roma Tre and at the Music conservatory “O. Respighi” of Latina, Italy. He directed [End Page 57] some short films, and he works occasionally as a production sound mixer (e.g., Gemma di maggio, 2015). He is also an amateur musician, playing the saxophone and directing the “A. Ponchielli” wind band of Latina. [End Page 58]
