Constance Frei

Nationality: Suisse

EPFLCDHCDH-SHSSHS-ENS

Selected publications

Le violon « instrument le plus propre de tous pour faire danser », Il Scolaro de Gasparo Zanetti : une introduction

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Published in in L’eredità di Diego Carpitella : etnomusicologia, antropologia e ricerca storica nel Salento e nell’area mediterranea. Ed. par M. Agamennone et G. L. Di Mitri. Nardò, Besa 2002 in

Tra scrittura e oralità : i movimenti cromatici della tecnica violinistica di Luigi Stifani

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Published in in Melissi : Le culture popolari. Nardò, Besa 2005, pp. 35-42 in

Bach trascrittore di se stesso. Un confronto tra la fuga in sol minore per violino solo (BWV 1001) e la fuga in re minore per organo (BWV 539)

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Published in in Arte organaria e organistica. Bergamo, Carrara 2009, pp. 32-37 in

La musica a Finale Emilia: mezzo millenio di storia

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Published in in Finale Emilia : mille anni di storia. Modène, Baraldini 2009, pp. 389-414 in

Dal violino alla tastiera. Ulisse Matthey, William Thomas Best e la Ciaccona di Johann Sebastian Bach

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Published in in in Arte organaria e organistica. Bergame, Carrara 2010, pp. 26-33 in

L’arco sonoro. Articulation et ornementation : les différentes pratiques d’exécution pour violon en Italie au XVIIe siècle

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Published in Lucca, LIM 2011 (658 pp.) in

Du manuscrit à la publication : un contrepoint épistolaire entre Beethoven et Breitkopf & Härtel

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Published in in A Fresco. Mélanges offerts au professeur Etienne Darbellay, édité par Brenno Boccadoro et Georges Starobinski. Berne, Peter Lang 2013, pp. 203-245 in

Le Violon en Italie 1600-1700. Film documentaire de 3 heures avec Stefano Montanari, violoniste

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Published in Paris, Frémeaux & Associés 2014 in

I tipografi romani e bolognesi di Corelli - stampa e ristampa

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Published in in «Arcomelo 2013. Studi nel terzo centenario della morte di Arcangelo Corelli». Lucca, LIM 2015, pp. 371-391 in

Le son de la Révolution : les compositions musicales commémoratives

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Published in in Le Spectacle de la Révolution sous la direction de Gianni Haver, Jean-François Fayet, Valérie Gorin et Emilia Koustova. Lausanne, Antipodes 2017, pp. 233-253 in

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Music, politics and society I

HUM-406

This course examines the presence of exotic musical characteristics (popular and folkloric) - in Europe and beyond - in art music (17th-20th centuries). It culminates in a group (or individual) research paper on a subject related to this theme.

Music, politics and society II

HUM-458

This course examines the presence of exotic musical characteristics (popular and folkloric) - in Europe and beyond - in art music (17th-20th centuries). It culminates in a group (or individual) research paper on a subject related to this theme.

Musicology and aesthetics

HUM-217

Recount the history of musical styles practiced in classical music of the 20th century. Understand and analyze the various contexts, musical languages and the currents of ideas. Know some of the major works of the classical repertory of the 20th century as well as the main theoretical writings.

Musicology and history of music

HUM-242

Recount the historical practices of improvisation from early music of the Renaissance to present modern day. Understand and analyze the various contexts, styles, musical genres in which improvisation is at the forefront. Know some of the major works from the classical repertory and the treatises.