Emilio Sala - Selected Publications#

Monographs

Opera, neutro plurale: glossario per melomani del XXI secolo, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2024.

Sounds of Paris in Verdi’s "La traviata" [book], Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

L’opera senza canto. Il mélo romantico e l’invenzione della colonna sonora [book], Venezia, Marsilio, 1995.

Select Book Chapters

Palimpsest, Mediation, Déjà entendu-Effect: The Musical Dramaturgy of Federico Fellini and Nino Rota’s La dolce vita [chapter in a collected work], Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980, ed. by Michael Baumgartner and Ewelina Boczkowska, New York, Routledge, 2023, 51-86.

Hearing the Shadows at the Chat Noir’s Pre-cinematic Theatre [chapter in a collected work], The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening, ed. by Carlo Cenciarelli, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, 42-67.

Méhul et le mélodrame : le cas des Hussites, in Le fer et les fleurs. Étienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817) [chapter in a collected work], sous la direction d’Alexandre Dratwicki et Étienne Jardin, Arles/Paris, Actes Sud/Palazzetto Bru-Zane, 2017, 315-346.

Réflexions sur une “maquette culturelle” à “l’époque de la vulgarisation”. Musique et carnaval à Milan au XIXe siècle [chapter in a collected work], Giovanni Morelli, la musicologie hors d’elle, sous la direction Gianfranco Vinay e Antony Desvaux, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2015, 135-160.

Select Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Nino Rota e il 'motivo guida' come 'oggetto perduto', Philomusica on-line, 21/1 (2022), 111-131.

La “trilogia popolare”: genealogia, ricostruzione, performance [article], Studi verdiani, 29 (2019-20), 121-147.

An Ethno-electronic Soundscape: Nino Rota’s Music for Fellini-Satyricon (1969) [article], Music and the Moving Image, XI/3 (Fall 2018), 3-21.

Dalla compilazione d’autore al poema lirico-sinfonico. La musica per la versione sonorizzata di Cabiria (1931) [article], Archivio d’Annunzio, IV/1 (2017), 139-153.