Academic positions
2016 Full Professor (FP) in Musicology and Music History, DBC Unibo
2000-2015 Associate Professor (AP), DBC Unibo
1984-1987 PhD, Unibo
Publication quality and impact
More than 80 publications in Italian, French, English and German (some of them translated in Spanish, Modern Greek and Russian too) in peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary venues, including “class A” journals.
Since 2015, evaluated by the Unibo’s Commission for the Evaluation of University Research (CVRA) of Antiquity, Philological-Literary and Historical-Artistic Sciences, have been rated "AA". In the last 3 years, they have been continuously included in the best 5% of the Area:
2017: 11,47 out of 11,70
2018: 17,60 out of 18,20
2019: 17,30 out of 17,70
Awards and other honours
2020-now Corresponding member of the Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, Class of Humanities
Grants and success in competitive calls
PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE – Bando 2022
(Prot. 2022W2CBXS) -Substitute Principal Investigator
2023-2024 MUSE. MUSical Ecosystems of Ancient Northern Italy (XIII B.C.-VII C.E.)
2021-2025 Italian partner of the French-Italian project "Repertorium Instrumentorum Musicorum Antiquorum" (RIMAnt) – financed by HiSOMA, CNRS, Lyon: Projet scientifique Axe B Cultures anciennes et temporalités - Présent de la performance https://www.hisoma.mom.fr/recherche-et-activites/2021-2025/b1-rimant
2021-2022 Italian partner of the French-Italian project IEA-International Emerging Actions (2020: 303536 Campaigns:
IEA 2020) "Repertorium Instrumentorum Musicorum Antiquorum" - € 11.000
2020-now "Paysages sonores et espaces urbains de la Méditerranée ancienne" (IFAO 17216), coord.: S. Emerit (CRCN,
CNRS HiSoMA, UMR 5189)
2019 Inviting Professor of a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of the Advanced Studies (ISA), Unibo, Ch. Vendries, Univ. Rennes -
2014-2017 Scientist in charge (Return phase) of a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for Career Development (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF: 622974) - TELESTES. Musics, cults and rites of a Greek city in the West -
2011 Coordinator Early Stage Research Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies (ISA), Unibo, E. Cabrera Silvera
2006-2013 Responsible for 8 annual research grants on topics related to the music of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, DISMEC and DBC, Unibo -
2002-2003 RU Ravenna "EU Project Culture 2000": Images of Music - A Cultural Heritage (PI: Seebass, University of Innsbruck)
2006-2008 RU Bologna-Ravenna PRIN "Musical Aesthetics and History: the musical imaginary in the 15th and 16th centuries" (coord.: Serravezza, then: Gozza)
2001 - 2003 RU Bologna-Ravenna PRIN "Musical theory and aesthetics: analysis and edition" (PI: Zanoncelli)
2004-2006 Oriented Fundamental Research (RFO) project, The sources for a global history of music and musical culture
2003-2005 RFO Project, Theoretical representations of music. Research, analysis and edition of sources (coord.: Serravezza)
2001-2003 Project RFO Aesthetics, theory and musical treatises (PI: Serravezza).
Assessment activities
2022-2023 Coordinator of the Unibo Quality Control, Research Working Group (PQA-RIC)
2020-2022 Member of GEV and SUB-GEV 10 for the VQR 3 (2015-19, National Research Assessment Exercise)
2020 Member of the Evaluation Committee for Research Projects of the University of Padua
2018-2021 Member of the University of the Unibo Quality Control, Research Working Group (PQA-RIC), Humanities
2017-2019 Delegate for Research of the Unibo DBC
2014-2018 Member of the Commission for the Unibo Research Assessment (VRA)
2018-now Reviewer for Reprise
2014-now "External member" of Apella in the Register of National and Kapodistrian Universities of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Technological Educational Institution of Ionian Islands
2014 member of the Evaluation Committee of Research Projects of the University of Padua
2004-now reviewer for PRIN.
Member of competition committees
Since 2004 she participated in 20 committees in musicological disciplines, in the following universities: Turin, Palermo, Padua, Tours, Bologna, Pavia, Bari, Geneva, Roma Tre, "Federico II" Naples, Florence, Trento, Milan.
Research activities
Editorial boards of journals
2011-now Greek and Roman Musical Studies
2010-now Musica Docta. Digital journal of Music Pedagogy and Didactics, consultant
2009-now Itineraria. Travel Literature and Knowledge of the World from Antiquity to the Renaissance, editorial board
Chairmanships and boards
2021-2023, 2017-2020 Chair of the Board of Statutory Auditors of the Association of Italian University Professors of Musicology (ADUIM)
2007-2011 Vice President of the Executive Board of MOISA
2007 Co-founder of "MOISA. International Society for Greek and Roman Music and Its Cultural Heritage", with Barker (Birmingham), Bowen (Princeton), Creese (British Columbia) and Rocconi (Pavia)
1988-1992 Board of Auditors of the Italian Society of Musicology (SIdM) Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
Direction of scientific committees of national and international conferences and seminars
2022 international meeting Patrimonio musicale del mondo antico: definizioni, stato della ricerca, prospettive, Padova-Ravenna, 21-23 March 2022
2000-2009 international seminars The Music of the Greeks: Past and Present. Valorisation of a cultural heritage, DBC, (Unibo)
Since 2006 he has directed some scientific committees of MOISA conferences, including:
-2018, University of Reading, 11th MOISA meeting: 'Music and Materiality', with J. Lloyd
-2009, DBC, Ravenna, IX seminar Le musiche dei Greci: passato e presente. Valorisation of a cultural heritage, with B.
Kowalzig, Royal Holloway University, London and 3rd MOISA Annual Meeting, Moisa Epichorios: Regional Music and Musical Regions in the Ancient Greece.
-2006, DBC, Ravenna, Music Theory in its Intellectual and Cultural Setting from the 2nd c. BC to the 2 c. AD, with International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and of Its Cultural Heritage.
She has directed the scientific committee of seminars at DBC Unibo, including:
-2018, Il patrimonio musicale nella storia della cultura dall'Antichità all'Età Moderna. Research and projects, co-directed with N. Guidobaldi
-2017, Music as Cultural Heritage from Antiquity to Early Modern Age. First Meeting, co-directed with N. Guidobaldi
-2017, Musical Heritage of the Ancient World and Sound Computing. Trials of dialogue between engineers and musicologists
-2014, Musical Heritage and Cultural Heritage
-2014, Byzantine Musical Heritage in Italy
-2007, Per una storia dei popoli senza note. Musical ideas and practices in texts and images, Atelier of the PhD in Musicology and Musical Heritage
Participation in scientific committees of Foundations
2018-now "Piancastelli" Foundation, Forlì, and of the "Quaderni Piancastelli"
2002-2008 "Ugo and Olga Levi Onlus" Foundation, Venice
Participation in scientific committees of study days, seminars, conferences and exhibitions (a selection)
2022, 27-29 June 2022 The Sounds of the Beyond: The Mysteries of Ancient Greek and Roman Music / Les sons de l'au-delà: les mystères de la musique grecque et romaine, MOISA, 13h meeting, Strasbourg
2019, 8-10 July From Past to Present: Transforming historical musical data into possible realities, MOISA, 12th meeting, Thessalonike
2013 Music, Cults and Rites of the Western Greeks, MOISA 5th meeting, Agrigento
2002-2008 International seminars of the Foundation "Ugo and Olga Levi onlus": "The music of ancient Mediterranean civilizations", XXVII-XXXVI cycle
1997 La musica ritrovata a Ravenna e in Romagna dal I al VI secolo, exhibition at the National Museum, Ravenna
1988 Lo specchio della musica. Musical iconography in Attic ceramics from Spina, Ferrara and Bologna
1985 La musica greca antica, Convegno internazionale di Studi, University of Urbino.
Conferences and seminars (last 5 years)
Gave 50 papers at national and international conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad.
Public Engagement activities (selection)
Since 2005 she has taken part in: exhibitions in museums, churches, palaces; book presentations, organisation of concerts, guided tours, conferences open to the city; award juries; she has also carried out cultural policy activities in webinar mode.
Erasmus program
2012-2015, 2018-2022 coordinator of Unibo Teaching Staff, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Teaching activities
In the last ten years:
2008-now Musical Archaeology class in History, Preservation and Enhancement of Artistic and Archeological Heritage and Landscape, MA course
2016-now Introduction to Music class in Cultural Heritage, BA course
2016-now Musical Heritage of the Ancient World class in Library and Archive Science, MA course
PhD courses committees
2022- Cultural and Environmental Heritage (coordinator 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th cycle)
2014-2018 Cultural Heritage Studies
2010-2013 Cinema, Music, Theatre
2001-2009 Musicology and Musical Heritage
Doctoral tutorship
2022-2025 cotutorship, M. Kaisin, Université de Liège
XXXV cycle, A. Zangrando, Doctorate in Environmental and Cultural Heritage, PON project
XXXIV, Š. Šavėla, Doctorate in Environmental and Cultural Heritage, cotutorship Vilnius University;
XXV, L. Cimardi
XXI, E. Cabrera
XIX, A. Bellia
XVIII, C. Cancellotti (with N. Guidobaldi)
XVIII, P. Dessì
Member of committees of admission and final examinations at other Italian and foreign universities:
Catania, Padua, Bologna, Lyon, Geneva
Specialisation School in Music Heritage, University of Bologna
2020-now Teaching coordinator
2020-21 Lecturer in "Sound Anthropology of the Ancient World".
2009-2011 Member of the board of teachers and admission and final examination commissions
2009-2010 Lecturer in "Musical Heritage and Classical Tradition".
Summer Schools and International Seminars
2019-2023 14th,15th, 16th, 17th MOISA Research Seminars on Ancient Greek and Roman Music, University of Padua, Bressanone (Italy)
2016-2018 11th, 12th, 13th MOISA Seminars on Ancient Greek and Roman Music, Riva del Garda (Tn)
2015 2nd MOISA International Summer School in Ancient Greek Music, University of Trento
2003-2017 History of Italian Music, International Centre of Italian Studies, S. Margherita Ligure, University of Genova.
TEACHING
FIRST CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN CULTURAL HERITAGE
2016-present Introduction to the Study of music
FIRST CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME (L) IN HISTORIC-ARTISTIC AND MUSICAL HERITAGE
2008-2011 Ethnomusicology
2006-2015 Musical Theory (before: Elements of Musical Theory)
2008-2009 Musicology and History of Music
2008-2009 Music and Literature
2004-2007 History of Literature for Music
2000-2005 History of Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Music
SECOND CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME (LM) IN MUSIC DISCIPLINE (2008-2016), SECOND CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME (LM) IN RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE (2008-2016), SECOND CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME (LM) IN HISTORY, PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF ARTISTIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPE (2016-PRESENT)
2008- Music Archaeology*
SECOND CYCLE DEGREE PROGRAMME (LM) IN LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE SCIENCE (2016- )
2016- Musical heritage of the ancient world*
(*These are the only University courses in Music Archaeology and in Musical Heritage of the Ancient World in Italy)
PhD
2018 Teaching in the DOCTORAL PROGRAMME in Sciences of the literary and musical text, Curriculum of Musicology (Cremona) of the University of Pavia
2013-2017 DOCTORAL PROGRAMME BOARD MEMBER IN STUDIES ON CULTURAL HERITAGE
2013, 2016 Member of the commission in charge of admission
2001-2013 DOCTORAL PROGRAMME BOARD MEMBER IN MUSICOLOGY AND MUSICAL HERITAGE (SINCE 2010: CINEMA, MUSIC, THEATRE)
2004, 2008 Member of the commission in charge of admission
2006 Member of the commission in charge of final exams
2006-2013 TUTOR OF FIVE DISSERTATIONS (Paola Dessì, Claudia Cancellotti, Angela Bellia, Eliana Cabrera Silvera, Linda Cimardi)
2011 Member of the Evaluation Committee for a PhD at the University of Teramo, Padova
SPECIALIZATION SCHOOL
2009- Board member of Specialization School of Musical Heritage, University of Bologna
2009-2010 Member of the commission in charge of admission and of final exams
SUMMER SCHOOLS
2016- Moisa Seminars of Ancient Greek and Roman Music, Riva del Garda (Tn)
2003-2017 Board member and Professor of History of Italian Music at the International Centre for Italian Studies, S. Margherita Ligure, University of Genova
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION, RESEARCH INTERESTS
The history of music of antiquity and the transmission and reception of music in early populations, in particular in Greece from Late Antiquity to Medieval and Modern times, also from the point of view of anthropology and in a wide interdisciplinary context.
The transmission and reception of Greek musical treatises in the Renaissance.
Music archaeology in its broadest sense and, over all, in the context of both texts and iconography from the point of view of anthropology and historical ethnomusicology with an interdisciplinary musicological approach.
Sources for a history of traveler’s music.
PUBLICATIONS
She has published six books, including two monographs. Her other publications include more than 80 articles and essays published in musicological as well as philological journals, encyclopedias and books.
