Ignazio Macchiarella

Ignazio Macchiarella is Full Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Department of Literature, Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari. He was born in Palermo and studied at the University of Bologna, where obtained his Ph.D. in Musicology in 1991. He has carried out fieldwork in Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and other Mediterranean regions. His main interests are: multipart music as a mode of musical thinking, expressive behaviour and sound; the relationships between music and ritual and between music and religion; the analysis of oral music patterns; and improvisation in vocal music. Inter alia he is the vice-chair of the Study Group on Multipart Singing of the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) and member of the Research Centre for European Multipart Music (University of Vienna). He has published more than 150 works, including books, essays in specialized journals in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. See http://people.unica.it/ignaziomacchiarella/.