Fondamenti e Pratica della Musica

di Gianluca Barbaro, con illustrazioni di Beatrice Sacchi

ISBN: 9781717735737, Pagine: 160

Un testo teorico-pratico che affronta tutti gli aspetti principali del fare e studiare musica, basato su un approccio cognitivo e psico-acustico. Include numerosi esercizi e suggerimenti per lo studio su tutti gli strumenti.

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ISBN: 9781795556927, Pages: 142, English

12 Ricercari (duets) from the fourth part of LE ISTITUTIONI HARMONICHE by Gioseffo Zarlino da Chioggia (1517 - 1590), an italian music theorist and composer who revolutionized music in the Reinassance. Presented in:
Original facsimile, Modern Notation and Modern Adaptations in C, Bb, Eb and Bass clef.

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ISBN: 9781717823304, Pages: 95, English

More than 250 musical scales both from all over the world and unheard of before, including their modes, generated chords and cross relationships.

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PINT is an innovative app that trains both your ear and your instrumental skills

While you can use PINT as a standard multi-temperament tuner and tone generator, an innovative function allows you to check your intonation by ear against a fixed drone of your choice.

You can choose the height of the drone (the fundamental of the scale), the octave, the base "A" pitch and the temperament: PINT will recognize the scale step you are playing and check your intonation against the selected temperament.

AUT - Auto USB Tether is an utility app that automatically activates your USB Tethering functionality whenever you connect your device to a PC/Mac through an Usb cable.

Gianluca Barbaro (AUT's Developer):
I decided to develop AUT after unsuccessfully trying the 10+ apps on the Play Store that claim to do what AUT does. None of them worked on my device or they were too complicated to use. Auto-activation of Usb tethering is not supported by the Android system, so it's not a surprise that those apps didn't work. It is a complicated matter from a developer's stand point.
With AUT I tried a different approach: auto-detection of the necessary parameters. It's not guaranteed to work on any device, but it definitely has more chances than apps with hardcoded parameters. Give it a try!

AUT can also show the current USB In/Out networking traffic and (attempt to) hide your tethered traffic from your carrier.

Zanzito is an app that acts as a bridge between your Android phone and an MQTT server. MQTT is a lightweight means of communication between systems, such as your home automation system and the various sensors and hardware devices in your home.
The MQTT protocol is based on the principle of publishing messages and subscribing to topics, or "pub/sub". Multiple clients connect to a broker and subscribe to topics of interest. Clients connect to the broker and publish messages to topics.

Play Melodica with Both Hands!

Japanese style

by Gianluca Barbaro

with a short introductory essay by Alan Brinton, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Boise State University

ISBN: 9781717782113, Pages: 71. English

An adaptation of the famous F. Beyer’s “Preparatory School for Piano” - op. 101
Volume 1 - Beginner to Intermediate 

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ISBN: 9781717782113, Pages: 29, English

An innovative method to practice melodic interval on keyboard instruments such as melodica, piano, accordion and electronic keyboards/synths.

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ISBN: 9781717813312, Pagine: 160

Un metodo completo per lo studio delle scale e degli accodi sugli strumenti a tastiera, incluse le diteggiature di decine di scale e accordi e routine di pratica.

ISBN: 9781717812797, Pages: 39, English

A complete workout for scales and chords on keyboard instruments, including fingerings for tens of scales and chords and exercise routines.

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Foundation and Practice of Music

by Gianluca Barbaro, with illustrations by Beatrice Sacchi

ISBN: 9781717905888, Pages: 160, color, English

A theoretical and practical textbook that covers all main aspects of music playing and studying, based on a cognitive and psycho-acoustical approach. It includes numerous exercises and suggestions for music studying and practicing on all instruments.

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Reviews

Foundation and Practice of Music — I have been able to review an advance copy. I highly recommend it and am ordering my own final copy. Although Gianluca is coming out with multiple titles at once, this is obviously something he has been working on for a long time. It is carefully crafted and highly polished, a well thought-out treatment of material the full range of which does not seem to have been covered by anybody else. It is suitable for relatively untutored readers such as myself. The closest is perhaps The Acoustical Foundations of Music by John Backus, which is an older title I am now reading, but the overlap is only partial. The writing style of Gianluca’s book is engaging, very crisp, not what we usually expect from an author writing in a second language. (A.Brinton, USA)

Gianluca Barbaro - Melodica
Denis Alessio - Guitar
Gioacchino Schiera - Guitar

Il trio propone il repertorio classico del jazz gitano con i grintosi ritmi e le frizzanti melodie delle composizioni di Django e degli evergreen più noti del sound gipsy, ma ha introdotto nel repertorio alcuni brani di estrazione diversa vestendoli con le sonorità della tradizione gipsy.
L'ensemble si caratterizza per la originale presenza della melodica, strumento che ricorda la fisarmonica e il cui suono si sposa perfettamente con la tradizione musette che ha concorso, insieme al flamenco e allo swing di oltreoceano, a dare vita alla musica manouche.
L'affascinante caratteristica di questo genere consente alla formazione che lo esegue di suonare completamente in acustico senza che le sonorità perdano bellezza ed efficacia, da qui il nome che tradotto significa "swing gipsy tascabile".
L'allegria della musica gipsy indubbiamente si rivolge a un grande pubblico poiché cattura l'attenzione sia di intenditori, sia di semplici ascoltatori.

Gianluca Barbaro alla melodica e Andrea Angeli alla chitarra "criolla" a 6 e 7 corde; una comune passione per il tango argentino condotta dall'originale sonorità ed espressività della melodica, sostenuta magistralmente dalla chitarra, strumento centrale della tradizione del tango rioplatense e del folklore del paese latinoamericano.

Il duo propone un repertorio rispettoso della tradizione e che attinge tra le migliori composizioni del tango di ogni epoca di autori come Horacio Salgàn, Anibal Troilo, Astor Piazzolla, Pedro Laurenz, Roberto Grela, Sebastian Piana, Hector Stamponi e molti altri, coniugando rigore ed improvvisazione per una rilettura originale e coinvolgente. 

 bárbaro {aggettivo maschile} (anche: genial, fenomenal, colosal, formidable): figo, stupendo.

Gianluca Barbaro - Ewi, Keys, Recorders, Electronics
Massimiliano Chiara - Bass, Electronics
Andrea Centonze - Drums

In a non-standard variable formation, where the lead instrument switches from Recorder to EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), from keyboards to acoustic piano plus guest voices, double bass and drums, the Rob "Cabal" Guarani Project offers a contemporary Jazz repertory, including originals and revised "standards", in a very personal style. By mixing more structured and melodic moments with moments of total improvisation (where the form leaves room for a free artistic expression), the 4et breaks out of the classical Jazz schemes and creates suggestive sound landscapes, thanks to a strong interplay between the musicians and the experimental usage of digital live sound processing.

L'Archestra di Brera è gruppo musicale formato dagli studenti dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano.

Coordinatore Progetto: Roberto Favaro
Direzione Musicale: Gianluca Barbaro
Coordinatore studenti: Chiara Maturo

Componenti  AA 2015-2016
Gianluca Barbaro, Flauto dolce, pianoforte, direzione
Diletta Veneziani, voce
Chiara Maturo, Flauto traverso, Voce, Chitarra
Adriano Forti, Flauto traverso
Chiara Rainolter, Flauto traverso
Elisabetta Cuccaro, Violino
Soroosh Dastmalchian, violino
Beatrice Sacchi, chitarra
Giacomo Schmitt, chitarra
Silvia Sala, pianoforte  

Ensemble di 8 elementi progetto ispirato alle Città Invisibili di Italo Calvino

Eloisa Manera composizione, violino, voce

Gianluca Barbaro flauti dolci, ewi

Piero Bittolo Bonsax alto, baritono, clarinetto

Andrea Baronchelli trombone

Pasquale Mirra vibrafono

Danilo Gallo basso, contrabbasso

Ferdinando Faraò batteria

Roberto Zanisi string guitars, cumbus, bouzouki, steel pan, doumbek, gunja cajon, cifteli, bowglama’

"Flutes or Recorders are a brave noble instrument, being skilfully handled"
Thomas Tryon, The way to Health, Long Life and Happyness (London 1683)

Gianluca Barbaro: flauti dolci
Livia Caffagni: flauti dolci
Simone Erre: flauti dolci
Teresa Sherwin: flauti dolci

Gianluca Barbaro - Flauto dolce
Eloisa Manera - Violino
Stefano Lecchi - Batteria
Antonio Vivenzio - piano
Stefano Grassi - contrabbasso

Gianluca Barbaro - Flauto dolce/EWI
Eloisa Manera - Violino/Voce
Marco Vaggi - Contrabbasso
Ferdinando Faraò - Batteria