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Volume 3, January 2012
Franco Petracchi and the Divertimento Concertante Per Contrabbasso E Orchestra by Nino Rota: A Successful Collaboration Between Composer And Performer
by Alexandre Ritter
Endnotes
1 Nino Rota, Divertimento Concertante, solo part with piano reduction (Milano: Carisch, 1973).
2 Giordano Montecchi, "Rota, Nino," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2ed. (London: Macmillan, 2001), 21:777.
3 "Prima scrisse la "Marcia" pensandola come brano a se stante con pianoforte. Era dedicata alla classe di contrabbasso, infatti si era servito di elementi di tecnica dello strumento (scale esercizzi, etc)." Petracchi.
Franco Petracchi, interview by author, 06 October 2006, Vancouver, e-mail, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
4 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, foreword by Wolfgang Sawallisch, introduction by Rodney Slatford (London: Yorke Edition, 1982).
5 "La Marcia è stata composta nel 1967, l'Aria nel 1968."
"The Marcia was composed in 1967 and the Aria in 1968." Petracchi.
Franco Petracchi, interview by author, 06 October 2006.
6 See Appendix A.
7 ". . . nel 1971 avvenne la prima esecuzione a Napoli con l'orchestra Scarlatti della Rai diretta da P.L Urbini, e come di solito il Maestro mi presentò lo sviluppo del primo movimento due giorni prima del concerto." Petracchi.
Franco Petracchi, interview by author, 06 October 2006.
8 Nino Rota, Divertimento Concertante, unpublished computer-generated revision of solo part with further handwritten revisions by Franco Petracchi.
9 Franco Petracchi, interview by author, 06 October 2006.
10 Franco Petracchi, interview by author, 11 February 2008, Athens, audio recording, transcribed and translated by Michael Faucette, University of Georgia, Athens.
11 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 2-3.
12 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 15.
13 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 27.
14 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 7-8.
15 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 26.
16 Nino Rota, Divertimento Concertante (Milano: Carish, 1973), 1.
17 Nino Rota, Divertimento Concertante (Milano: Carish, 1973), 1.
18 Nino Rota, Divertimento Concertante (Milano: Carish, 1973), 1.
19 Lucia Borsatti, "The Master of Bel Canto," The Strad 104 (February 1993): 128-30.
20 Peter Buckoke, "Left Hand high (exercises from Petracchi's Simplified Higher Technique to Strengthen Left Hand Positions)," Double Bassist 26 (Autumn 2003): 22-3.
21 Franco Sciamento, "From Grandfather to Godfather: A Biographical Profile of Nino Rota," The Journal of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music 3 (July 1997): 4-20.
22 Dinko Fabris, Nino Rota Compositore del Nostro Tempo (Bari: Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, 1987).
23 Paul Brun, A New History of the Double Bass (Villeneuve d`Ascq: Paul Brun Productions, 2000).
24 Fiona M. Palmer, Domenico Dragonetti in England (1794-1846): The Career of a Double Bass Virtuoso (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).
25 Flavio Arpini and Elena Mariani, editors, "Bottesini: Tradizione e Innovazione nell'Otocento Musicale Italiano" in Quaderni del Centro Culturale S. Agostino (Crema: Centro Culturale S. Agostino, 1992): 1-159.
26 Flavio Arpini and Marcello Conati, editors, "Giovanni Bottesini, Concertista e Compositore: Esecuzione, Ricezione e Definizione del Testo Musicale," Quaderni del Centro Culturale S. Agostino (Crema: Centro Culturale S. Agostino, 1999): 1-190.
27 Nino Rota, Divertimento Concertante, solo part with piano reduction (Milano: Carish, 1973).
28 Thomas Benjamin, Michael Horvit, and Robert Nelson, Techniques and Materials of Music: From the Common Practice Period Through the Twentieth Century, seventh edition (Belmont: Thomson Schirmer, 2008), 3.
29 Giordano Montecchi, "Rota, Nino," in Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com., (accessed January 14, 2010).
30 Richard Dyer, "Side by Side - Nino Rota, Music and Film," in Beyond the Soundtrack (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), 251.
31 Giordano Montecchi, "Rota, Nino," in Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online (accessed January 14, 2010).
32 John Simon, "The Other Rota," New Criterion 19, no.1 (September 2000), 59.
33 Richard Dyer, "Side by Side - Nino Rota, Music and Film," 251.
34 Information taken from Petracchi's official curriculum vitae, available at his official web site: http://www.francopetracchi.com/biography.htm (accessed January 14, 2010).
35 Rodney Slatford, "Petracchi, Francesco," in Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online (accessed January 14, 2010).
36 Lucia Borsatti, "The Master of Bel Canto," The Strad 104 (February 1993): 130.
37 Francisco Catala, "Passione Amorose (teacher, soloist and conductor Franco Petracchi)," Double Bassist 32 (Spring 2005), 25.
38 Lucia Borsatti, "The Master of Bel Canto" (February 1993): 129.
39 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique (London: Yorke Edition, 1982).
40 Peter Buckoke, "Left hand high" (Autumn 2003): 22.
41 See Appendix A.
42 Ibid.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid.
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid.
53 Ibid.
54 Ibid.
55 Ibid.
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid.
58 Ibid.
59 Peter Buckoke, "Left hand high" (Autumn 2003): 22.
60 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique (London: Yorke Edition, 1982).
61 Ibid.
62 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique (London: Yorke Edition, 1982).
63 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 4.
64 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 7.
65 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 10.
66 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 12.
67 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 11.
68 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 13.
69 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 16.
70 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 26.
71 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 27.
72 Francesco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 27.
73 Lucia Borsatti, "The Master of Bel Canto" (February 1993): 128.
74 Franco Petracchi, Franco Petracchi in Tokyo I, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Franco Petracchi and Norichika Iimori, live Recording, 1993, compact disc.
75 "La Marcia è stata composta nel 1967, l'Aria nel 1968."
"The Marcia was composed in 1967 and the Aria in 1968."
Franco Petracchi, interview by author, 06 October 2006, Vancouver, e-mail, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
76 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 16.
77 Franco Petracchi, Simplified Higher Technique, 15.
78 Franco Petracchi, Franco Petracchi in Tokyo I, 1993.
79 Franco Petracchi, Franco Petracchi and Andre Loss: recital in Brazil 2001, produced by Alexandre Ritter and Walter Schinke, unpublished videocassette.
80 See Appendix A.
81 Ibid.
82 Ibid.
83 Ibid.
84 Ibid.
85 Ibid.
86 Ibid.
87 See appendix A.
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