Body percussion in the band repertoire

the case study of the work Palindromia Flamenca, by Antonio Ruda Peco

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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2024.52694

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Body percussion, Band repertoire, BAPNE Method, Antonio Ruda Peco, Musical pedagogy

Abstract

Body percussion constitutes a decisive expressive-musical element in many works of the band repertoire. The compositional possibilities that it offers from a rhythmic, timbral and choreographic point of view are often linked to traditional musical elements as in the case of Palindromia Flamenca by Antonio Ruda Peco. In this work for solo soprano saxophone and band the Spanish musician, through the almost constant presence of clapping, creates a musical climax very close to flamenco as the performance, entrusted to a specific group of musicians, brings to mind the role of palmeros. In this article, through a musicological investigation we intend to pay particular attention to the musical characteristics and functions that body percussion performs within the composition. This will represent the basis for developing a teaching proposal based on the BAPNE Method for the development of executive functions.

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Salvatore di Russo, University of Alicante, Spain

Salvatore Di Russo is a PhD student at the University of Valladolid and member of the research group in Neuromotricidad y Alfabetización Motora (NEUROMOTRICITY) of the University of Alicante. He graduated in clarinet at the “Ottorino Respighi” State Conservatory of Music in Latina and since 2000 has held the role of Orchestral Member of the Italian Navy Band. He carries out an intense artistic activity both as a soloist and as a member of various musical groups. His performances at the Clarinet Fest held in 2011 in Los Angeles and in July 2013 in Assisi stand out. In 2010 he collaborated with the tango orchestra “Promart Orchestra”, producing the CD “Histoire Du Tango” with the Uruguayan singer Ana Karina Rossi. In 2011, together with the accordionist Pietro Bentivenga, he founded the duo "Milongaires" with the aim of spreading "Yiddish tango" by performing in tango festivals, milongas and cultural events such as the Casa della Memoria in Rome, the National Art Gallery Moderna and the Shoah Memorial in Bologna. He carries out an intense activity of promoting culture with particular attention to musical pedagogy. He obtained the Certificate of Professional Qualification of “Play-Musical Operator” of the Lazio Region and the Province of Rome, the 1st level Master's degree in "Psychopedagogy and Teaching of Specific Learning Disorders" at the "Niccolò Cusano" University of Rome and the Master de Investigacion in “Música Hispana” at the University of Valladolid. He also attended the Specialization Course for Teachers “Etnomusicología en las aulas” at the UNED in Madrid and the “Máster Internacional en didáctica de la percusión corporal” with the PhD Francisco Javier Naranjo Romero at the Florida University of Valencia. He has participated in several conferences including ERPA CONGRESS 2021, IV and V edition of CIDICO, ICTM 2023 and published in journals of high academic impact such as Retos. nuevas tendencias en educación física, deporte y recreación. He has held teaching activities at the "F. Venezze" Conservatory of Music in Rovigo, the University of Alicante and in ERASMUS programs including that of the Teacher Academy.

Vicenta Gisbert Caudeli, Autonomus University of Madrid, Spain

Vicenta Gisbert Caudeli holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of La Laguna where she graduated Cum Laude, a Master in Neuroscience for teachers from the CEU Cardenal Herrera University, and advanced studies in oboe from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid. From 2020 to 2022 she has been Academic Director of the Master's Degree in Music Pedagogy at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR). She is currently Assistant Professor at the Interfaculty Department of Music at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is accredited as a Hired Doctor by the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA) and by the Agencia Canaria de Evaluación Educativa (ACCUEE). Secretary of the Center for University Studies for Education in Diversity (ULL). Academic teaching coordinator of the Master in Education in Diversity (ULL). Member of IMETIC (Educational Innovation Group, University of La Coruña), INCISO (Didactics of the CCSS and Pedagogical Innovation in the digital society, UNIR), GIED (Research Group for Education in Diversity, ULL) and GIMB (Band Music Research Group, ULL). She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Revista Iberoamericana de Educación (ISSN 1022-6508) and editorial committee of the editorial team of the journal Estudios Bandísticos (ISSN 2530-8042). Reviewer of Review of European Studies (Canada), Pulso (education journal) and DIGILEC (International Journal of Languages and Cultures). Member of the Working Commission of Bands of the SEdeM (Spanish Society of Musicology), member of the SEM-EE (Society for Music Education of the Spanish State), of the ISME (International Society for Music Education) and of the International Society for Research and Promotion of Wind Music (IGEB). Director, coordinator and teacher of the MUSINNOVA Music Education Project, a pioneer in early musical stimulation and experiential methodologies in Tenerife since its creation in 2014 until 2021. She currently teaches Bachelor's Degree in Music, Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, Primary Education Teacher, Master in Music, Master in Music Research and Master in Music Therapy at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), where she is also director of Final Degree and Master's Degree Projects in the field of music and education.

Francisco Javier Romero Naranjo, University of Alicante, Spain

Francisco Javier Romero Naranjo is Full Professor at the University of Alicante, holds a PhD from the Alexander von Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) and a Master's degree in clinical neuropsychology from the European University Miguel de Cervantes. Director of the research group of the University of Alicante entitled "Neuromotricity and Motor Literacy (NEUROMOTRICITY)". He has directed more than 250 master's degree final projects and several doctoral theses. He has given more than 70 plenary lectures in 15 countries and 800 training courses in about 20 countries. He is Doctor Honoris Causa in Brazil - São Paulo, culture prize of the city of Alicante in 2022, and national prize of Didactics of Music - Estival Cuenca Prize in the Faculty of Education of the University of Castilla - La Mancha. He is currently director of the area of didactics of musical expression at the University of Alicante, Spain.

His research is linked to 2 lines of work: (1) Neuromotricity and executive functions through the BAPNE method (2) music and movement in different cultures through body percussion. She has more than 60 publications in Web of Science / SCOPUS and her research has been published in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and in the Sociedad Española de Musicología (SEDEM). His articles in Web of Science and Scopus, among others, have earned him more than 3100 academic citations. He has been invited to give lectures and courses in the United States, Japan, Italy, Germany, Paraguay, Mexico, Costa Rica, Norway, Denmark and Venezuela (El Sistema de coros y orquestas, Prince of Asturias Award).

Antonio Domenico Pelizza, State Music Conservatoire “S. Cecilia, Italy

Clarinetist, composer, director of bands, teacher and music historian, he turns his attention to the recovery of forgotten works, but of high artistic value, by Italian composers, in order to make them available to our ensembles for the creation of a repertoire national band. Having approached music at the age of ten in the Banda del Collegio San Giorgio of Novi Ligure, he subsequently studied clarinet and music teaching at the “A.Vivaldi” Conservatory of Alessandria. The years of training, during which he perfected his instrumental practice with Roberto Catto, Paolo Budini, Giuseppe Garbarino, Nicola Conte and Franco Mezzena, were followed by those of the search for an artistic identity during which he explored numerous fronts of the universe musical: teaching at state schools, working as an instrumentalist in orchestral and chamber ensembles, directing band ensembles (Banda Musicale di Sarissola (Ge), Corpo Musicale “R.Marenco di Novi Ligure” and Fanfare “U.Ricagno” of the A.N.A. Section of Alessandria) and the encounter with the world of cinema thanks to the collaboration, as musical assistant, with directors such as Ermanno Olmi, Roberta Torre, Marcello Siena and Maurizio Zaccaro. In 2000, winner of a competition at the Banda Musicale della Marina Militare, he moved to Rome where the meeting with Nicola Hansalick Samale, Nicola Piovani and Raffaelo Tega led him to an in-depth study of conducting, composition of applied music and instrumentation for band at the “S.Cecilia” Conservatory where he obtained academic diplomas in these subjects. In 2015 he activated, at the "Cooperativa Sociale Gea Onlus" in Nepi (VT), a musical creativity laboratory aimed at developing artistic sensitivity and communication through the musical language of people with disabilities.

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di Russo, Salvatore, Vicenta Gisbert Caudeli, Francisco Javier Romero Naranjo, and Antonio Domenico Pelizza. 2024. “Body Percussion in the Band Repertoire: The Case Study of the Work Palindromia Flamenca, by Antonio Ruda Peco”. Per Musi 25 (July):1-23. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2024.52694.

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