BOOKS
Semiografia della musica contemporanea – Ragioni di un’esigenza espressiva (Semiology of the contemporary music – Reasons of an expressive requirement).
The book is about the reasons that led the composers to introduce new symbols in their scores. It is divided in specific zones according to the musical languages. Preserved by “S. Cecilia” Academy of Music Library.
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Sylvano Bussotti e il Teatro della Crudeltà di Artaud (Sylvano Bussotti and the Artaud’s Theatre of the Cruelty).
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L’altro volto della scuola di Darmstadt: Messiaen, Ligeti (The other face of the Darmstadt School: Messiaen, Ligeti).
The book is about those aspects that are very far from the serialism, integral serialism and structuralism, features usually connected to the Darmstadt School and offers another point of view of the very famous Ferienkurse. The choice of Messiaen and Ligeti, as prominent figures, comes from the necessity to focalize on those languages that can explain better the proposed subject.
The book was written for a utilized as seminar organized by Ottorino Respighi Academy of Music in Latina.
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THEORETICAL WORKS
Tecniche del mio Linguaggio Musicale (Techniques of my Musical Language)
Conference at the 42nd Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (August 2004)
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS OF ALESSIO ELIA
1) «ABOUT THE ACOUSTIC SCALE AND THE JUST INTONATION IN THE PRAELUDIUM OF THE“HAMBURGISCHES KONZERT” – HORN CONCERT – BY GYÖRGY LIGETI»
Published on “Rézirat”, the Official Hungarian Review of the Hungarian Brass Society; 2008, no. 3 – Budapest.
2) «SPECTRAL HARMONY IN LIGETI’S VIOLIN CONCERTO»
Published on “Musica Oggi”, musical review of the Swiss Italian; 2008, no. 5 – Lugano.
3) «ABOUT THE NATURAL HARMONICS AND THE SCORDATURA IN THE STRINGS»
Published on “International Composers”; 2007 no. 5 – Boston.
4) «THE VII SONATA BY SCRIABIN, OP. 64: “WHITE MASS”. BETWEEN NUCLEOUS–POLARITY AND THEOSOPHY»
Published on “Musica Oggi”, musical review of the Swiss Italian, divided into 5 articles: 2006, nos. 4, 5, 6 / 2007, nos. 1 e 2 – Lugano.
5) «VARÈSE AND HIS MUSICAL IDEAS»
Published on “International Composers”, American review; 2005 no. 3 – Boston.
6) «CONCRETE MUSIC»
Published on “International Composers”, American review; 2006 no. 5 – Boston.
7) «THE RATIONALISTIC-DETERMINISTIC-STRUCTURAL MATRIX IN THE CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL NOTATION»
Published on “Musica Oggi”, musical review of the Swiss Italian, divided into 2 articles: 2007, nos. 5 and 6 Lugano.
8) «GRAPHIC SCORE»
Published on “International Composers”, American review; 2007, no. 7 – Boston.
9) «THE EMPIRIC - PHENOMENOLOGIC CONSTRUCTIONISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC»
Published on “Musica Oggi”, musical review of the Swiss Italian, divided into 2 articles: 2008, nos. 1 and 2 – Lugano.
10) «BUSSOTTI AND THE MUSICAL PICTOGRAPHIC WRITING »
SUBTITLE: «SIGNS AND GRAPHISMES, EROS AND MUSIC TOWARDS A MUTUAL SACRIFICE. UNEXPECTED COMMON POINTS BETWEEN THE ARTAUD’S THEATRE OF CRUELTY AND THE GESTUALITY OF BUSSOTTI»
Published on “Musica Oggi”, musical review of the Swiss Italian, divided into 4 articles: 2005 nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6 – Lugano.
11) « SELON X or LA PASSION SELON SADE. GENESIS OF THE OPERA AMONG SADE, LABÈ, PAULHAN, BACH AND ARTAUD »
Published on “Musica Oggi”, musical review of the Swiss Italian, divided into 2 articles: 2006, nos. 1 and 2 – Lugano.