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Dr. Massimo Zicari, flutist and musicologist, is Deputy Head of Research at the University School of Music (Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana) in Lugano, where he also teaches music history since 2005. In 2009 he was visiting Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, for a project concerning the reception of Verdi’s Operas in London. His studies focus mainly on opera reception but include also research areas such as acoustics and performance science. His publications have appeared in Italy, Switzerland, the United States of America, Australia and Romania. Among his most recent contributions there are: Zicari, M., MacRitchie, J. et al. “Trumpet mouthpiece manufacturing and tone quality”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134 (5), November 2013, p. 3872–3886; Massimo Zicari, “Giuseppe Verdi in Victorian London,” Studia Musica, LVII, 2, 2012 (p. 153-162); MacRitchie, J. and Zicari, M. (2012) “The Intentions of Piano Touch” In E. Cambouropoulos, C. Tsougras, P. Mavromatis and K. Pastiadis (Eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) and the 8th Triennial Conference of the ESCOM, July 23-28, 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece; Massimo Zicari, “La prima recezione di Giuseppe Verdi a Londra: Henry Fothergill Chorley e l’Athenaeum”, in Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft (2011). - Giuseppe Verdi in the London Press. A study on opera reception, last updated on December 23, 2014.
- Verismo and Mass Art, last updated on December 23, 2014.
- Articulations and Mouthpiece morphology in Brass Instruments: Trumpet and Horn, last updated on December 23, 2014.
- Shape the Sound: Trumpet Mouthpiece Manufacturing and Tone Quality, last updated on October 31, 2013.
- Expressive tempo modifications in early 20th century’s Italian vocal music, last updated on February 3, 2015.
- Massimo Zicari, “’Ah! non credea mirarti’ nelle fonti discografiche di primo Novecento: Adelina Patti e Luisa Tetrazzini,” Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 34/35 (2014/2015)
- Massimo Zicari, “Expressive Tempo Modifications in Adelina Patti’s Recordings,” Empirical Musicology Review, Vol 12, No 1-2 (2017)
- Massimo Zicari, Verdi in Victorian London (Open Book Publishers)
- ISBN Paperback: 9781783742134
- ISBN Hardback: 9781783742141
- ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783742158
- ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783742165
- ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783742172
- DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0090
Open Book Publishers - Massimo Zicari, “Un caso di moralità: La Traviata nella Londra Vittoriana (1856)”, Musica/Realtà, n. 103, luglio 2014, pp. 141-157.
- Massimo Zicari, “Verdi and Wagner in early Victorian London: the viewpoint of The Musical World, ” Studia Musica, 1, 2014
- Massimo Zicari, “Ruggero Leoncavallo y la genesis de Pagliacci,” Libro de la Temporada Abao Olbe 2014-2015, Bilbao, Abao-Olbe, 2014
- Zicari,M., MacRitchie, J. et al. "Trumpet mouthpiece manufacturing and tone quality", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134 (5), November 2013, p. 3872–3886
- Massimo Zicari, "Giuseppe Verdi in Victorian London," STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LVII, 2, 2012 (p. 153-162)
- MacRitchie, J. and Zicari, M. (2012) "The Intentions of Piano Touch", in Proceedings of the Joint 12th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition ICMPC and 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music ESCOM, Thessaloniki, Greece, 23-28 July 2012
- Massimo Zicari, "La prima recezione di Giuseppe Verdi a Londra: Henry Fothergill Chorley e l’Athenaeum," Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 31 (2011) p. 27-60.
- Massimo Zicari, “Nothing but the Commonest Tunes: The Early Reception of Verdi’s Operas in London, 1845-1848”, in Dissonanz, June 2011, n. 114.
- Massimo Zicari, “Verdi e il Risorgimento”, Arte e Storia, Aprile-Luglio 2013, n. 58
- Massimo Zicari, “Produzione e percezione del suono negli ottoni”, in Dissonanz, 110, June 2010.
- Massimo Zicari (a cura di), Ricerca e Musica, La ricerca applicata nei Conservatori di Musica, Varese, Zecchini Editore, 2010.
- Massimo Zicari, "Critica musicale e opera italiana a Londra nell’Ottocento: Gorge Bernard Shaw," Musica e Storia, XVII/2 (2009).
- Massimo Zicari, "Giacomo Puccini," Musica, Sydney, Millennium House, 2009.
- Massimo Zicari, The Land of Song, La terra del Belcanto sulla stampa londinese nel decennio 1890 - 1900, Bern, Peter Lang Verlag, 2008
- Massimo Zicari, "Il Pierrot au Cinema di Ruggero Leoncavallo," Atti del V Convegno internazionale “Ruggero Leoncavallo nel suo tempo”, Milano, Sonzogno editore (in print)
- Massimo Zicari, "Leoncavallo effimero," Il giornale della Musica, Torino, Edt, Marzo 2007.
- Harvey Sachs, Massimo Zicari, Formazione musicale tra università e mercato, società e arte, Lugano, Fontana Edizioni, 2006.
- Giovanni Paisiello, Cantata a tre per la traslazione del sangue del glorioso martire S. Gennaro (1973), a cura di Leonardo Muzii e Massimo Zicari, Bologna, Ut-Orpheus, 2005.
- Carlo Piccardi, Massimo Zicari, Un’immagine musicale del Ticino, Milano, Lugano, G. Casagrande, 2005.
- Massimo Zicari, "Ruggiero Leoncavallo", in Theaterlexikon der Schweiz, Chronos Verlag (2005)
- Tânia Lisboa, Aaron Williamon, Massimo Zicari, Hubert Eiholzer, "Mastery through imitation; a preliminary study," Musicae Scientiae, Journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, ESCOM (2005).
- Massimo Zicari, "Drammaturgia nel teatro musicale di Ruggero Leoncavallo", Musica e Storia, Edizioni il Mulino (Bologna), by the Fondazione Levi in Venice (2004)
- Tânia Lisboa, Aaron Williamon, Massimo Zicari, Hubert Eiholzer, "An alternative to midi data: Analysing timing and dynamics of strings performances," in C. Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson, E. Schubert and J. Renwick (eds), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Adelaide, Causal Productions, 2002.