Meeting with Alessandro De Rosa

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Subject guarantor:

Giovanni Battista ROBBIANO

Name of lecturer(s):

Giovanni Battista ROBBIANO

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Training in film music, music rights, relationship between musician and director/producer.

Mode of study:

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Course contents:

Alessandro has been friend and student of Ennio Morricone who advised him about taking a career in composing soundtracks. He has his own company based in Switzerland and wrote Morricone's biography recently published in many countries. He will describe the musical world of the maestro and the special relationship between his music and the stories, mostly the westerns of Sergio Leone. But will also advise on musical choices for your own work.

Friday, April 22: 10 am - 1 pm, 2:30 pm - 5 pm

Recommended or required reading:

None

Assessment methods and criteria:

100% attendance

Course web page:

Note:

Alessandro De Rosa (1985) studied guitar and later composition as suggested by Ennio Morricone, He studied with Boris Porena and graduated at the royal conservatory of Den Haag in Holland. After having worked as manager and organizer of concerts and events he worked as arranger and composer together with Jon Anderson co founder and vocalist of the world famous rock band Yes. Since 2007 he works for RAI and since 2015 he is Composer, Artist Recruitment and Talent Manager for his company Pastelle Music.

From his long term friendship and collaboration with Morricone comes the book just published the first biography of the recent academy award winner musician that Alessandro wrote with him.

“From the very first moment, I sense that talking to Ennio Morricone about Ennio Morricone would produce materials that spoke to a variety of audiences. Morricone have remained in limbo between multiple socio-cultural worlds that rarely come into contact with one another; he is in a truly unique borderline position. So how can one be clear without being superficial, be technical but also communicative? How can one speak to people from varying generations and cultural backgrounds, combining biography and musicology, anecdote and the nuances of composition? How can I unite his and my personal identities with the story to be narrated? These were the challenges. I decided that I would need to create a polysemous text that established communication between multiple levels of interpretation. But how?

Then, during our conversations and my parallel research work over the course of the last four years, I realized that all we needed to do was respect what had naturally emerged. The relationship between myself and Ennio was made of the same stuff as that need for multifaceted communication; our synthesis simultaneously encompassed and resolved all those challenges.”

Alessandro De RosaAlessandro De Rosa (1985) studied guitar and later composition as suggested by Ennio Morricone, He studied with Boris Porena and graduated at the royal conservatory of Den Haag in Holland. After having worked as manager and organizer of concerts and events he worked as arranger and composer together with Jon Anderson co founder and vocalist of the world famous rock band Yes. Since 2007 he works for RAI and since 2015 he is Composer, Artist Recruitment and Talent Manager for his company Pastelle Music.

From his long term friendship and collaboration with Morricone comes the book just published the first biography of the recent academy award winner musician that Alessandro wrote with him.

“From the very first moment, I sense that talking to Ennio Morricone about Ennio Morricone would produce materials that spoke to a variety of audiences. Morricone have remained in limbo between multiple socio-cultural worlds that rarely come into contact with one another; he is in a truly unique borderline position. So how can one be clear without being superficial, be technical but also communicative? How can one speak to people from varying generations and cultural backgrounds, combining biography and musicology, anecdote and the nuances of composition? How can I unite his and my personal identities with the story to be narrated? These were the challenges. I decided that I would need to create a polysemous text that established communication between multiple levels of interpretation. But how?

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
22.04.2016		10:00–17:00	Giovanni Battista ROBBIANO	Učebna 1 Lažanský palác	In English, open for FAMU. The guest speaker is Ennio Morricone´s pupil. Read the annotation, please	paralelka 1

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