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Locanto, Massimiliano

Massimiliano Locanto is lecturer at the University of Salerno, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, where he teaches History of modern and contemporary music. He graduated in Musicology at the University of Pavia with a dissertation on medieval liturgical tropes. In 2003 he earned a PhD in Musical Philology, with a dissertation on Igor Stravinsky. He has researched and taught at the University of Pavia, Faculty of Musicology, as adjunct professor for Musical analysis (2003-2005). His research activity took place in two distinct areas: the history of liturgical chant (liturgical tropes, monody in italian vernacular language, aspects of orality in gregorian chant); 20th-century music history, theory and analysis (in particular on Igor Stravinsky’s serial compositions, musical theory in early 20th- century and its relations to scientific thought).