The Cimarosa Affair is a collection of essays written by Simone Perugini and translated by Elizabeth Thomson. With his latest studies, Simone Perugini sheds new light on the life of the Italian composer, Domenico Cimarosa, one of the greatest exponents of the Neapolitan School in the second half of the 18th century. Using contemporary documentary sources discovered recently in various state archives in Italy, and analysing the scores and the librettos of Cimarosa’s operas, Simone Perugini ...

In this essay the author tries a possible analysis and interpretation of the music composed by Nino Rota for "Orchestra Rehearsal", the documentary film made in 1979 by Federico Fellini.The author of this essay, for its proposal of analysis and interpretation of Fellini / Rota masterpiece, refers to the latest analytical methods of film music (especially the ones taken by Sergio Miceli, from which it takes its cue for Perugini your work) considering incidental music, in effect, as a...