There are illustrated texts that manage to generate music; sometimes, they do so through direct and precise references to composers and pieces, other times through an impressionistic hybridization that conveys fleeting atmospheres those same atmospheres that, ever since Goethe’s Theory of Colours and his aphorisms On Music, we have understood to be infused with multifaceted synesthetic reverberations. This beautiful fusion ‒ capable of transcending an imaginary too often constrained by rigid artistic boundaries ‒ is explored here through three distinct forms of “musical representation through images”: The Dam, by David Almond and Levi Pinfold, follows the thread of musical evocation to portray the passage of time and generational change. Pinfold’s delicate pencil lends things, places, nature, and people a sense of continuity with the created world, one that unfolds through an armonia mundi whose musical dimension is indispensable. Summer, by Suzy Lee, directly inspired by one of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (and the accompanying poetic sonnet), dares to enact an artistic transpo-sition from the emotional field evoked by music centuries old to the chromatic immediacy of everyday, youthful, current, and vividly suggestive imagery, to borrow the words of Calvin Brown and Rino Maione. Finally, For Hand, by Sante Bandirali and Gloria Tundo, recounts with words and masterful illustrations the life of Paul Witt-genstein, who lost his right hand after being sent to the front during the Great War. A story of exemplary resilience, the book intersects music history, aesthetics, and educational and ethical perspectives.
Ci sono testi illustrati che riescono a generare musica; lo fanno, a volte, a partire da riferimenti diretti e precisi ad autori e brani; altre volte nell’ibridazione impressionistica capace di restituire evanescenti atmosfere che, dal Goethe della Te o-ria dei colori e degli aforismi Sulla musica in poi, sappiamo essere intrise di multiformi riverberi sinestetici. Tale meravigliosa commistione – capace di varcare le soglie di un immaginario troppo ‘bloccato’ nelle delimitazioni artistiche – viene qui percorsa a partire da tre differenti ‘rappresentazioni musicali per immagini’: La diga di David Almond e Levi Pinfold segue sul filo dell’evocazione musicale il passaggio del tempo e l’avvicendamento generazionale cui la delicata matita di Pinfold sottopone cose, luoghi, natura e persone, in una comunione col creato che si manifesta attraverso un’armonia mundi il cui volto musicale risulta imprescindibile. Summer di Suzy Lee, direttamente ispirato ad una delle Quattro stagioni di Vivaldi (ed al sonetto che le fa da supporto poetico), riesce nell’azzardo di operare una trasposizione artistica, per dirla con Calvin Brown e Rino Maione, dal campo emotivo generato dalla musica (lontana secoli) alla immediatezza cromatica di immagini quotidiane fanciulle, attuali, realistiche e suggestive. Infine, Per mano, di Sante Bandirali e Gloria Tundo, racconta con parole e magistrali illustrazioni la vita di Paul Wittgenstein, rimasto senza la mano destra perché man-dato al fronte durante la grande guerra. Racconto di esemplare resilienza, il libro intercetta storia della musica, estetica e prospettive valoriali e pedagogiche.
Il suono delle immagini. Riverberi musicali tra narrazione e illustrazione The Sound of Images. Musical Resonances Between Story and Illustration
Leonardo Acone
2025-01-01
Abstract
There are illustrated texts that manage to generate music; sometimes, they do so through direct and precise references to composers and pieces, other times through an impressionistic hybridization that conveys fleeting atmospheres those same atmospheres that, ever since Goethe’s Theory of Colours and his aphorisms On Music, we have understood to be infused with multifaceted synesthetic reverberations. This beautiful fusion ‒ capable of transcending an imaginary too often constrained by rigid artistic boundaries ‒ is explored here through three distinct forms of “musical representation through images”: The Dam, by David Almond and Levi Pinfold, follows the thread of musical evocation to portray the passage of time and generational change. Pinfold’s delicate pencil lends things, places, nature, and people a sense of continuity with the created world, one that unfolds through an armonia mundi whose musical dimension is indispensable. Summer, by Suzy Lee, directly inspired by one of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (and the accompanying poetic sonnet), dares to enact an artistic transpo-sition from the emotional field evoked by music centuries old to the chromatic immediacy of everyday, youthful, current, and vividly suggestive imagery, to borrow the words of Calvin Brown and Rino Maione. Finally, For Hand, by Sante Bandirali and Gloria Tundo, recounts with words and masterful illustrations the life of Paul Witt-genstein, who lost his right hand after being sent to the front during the Great War. A story of exemplary resilience, the book intersects music history, aesthetics, and educational and ethical perspectives.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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