From Page to Performance: Learning a Song in an Italian Multi-Level Activist Brass Band
Mario Giuseppe Camporeale
This chapter gives insight into the creative and performing processes of Titubanda, showing how this Italian activist street band approaches a new song from the initial reading of the score to its performance and inclusion into the band's repertoire. It compares an arrangement written by a band member of Sun Ra’s “Love in Outerspace” and the transcription of two choruses of the same song from a recorded rehearsal. This comparison highlights the differences and relationships between the arrangement and the transcription. It shows how orality, creativity, and what I call “unconscious and conscious heterophony” are intrinsic elements of performance for a multi-level leaderless street band that includes players unable to read music. This performance method greatly differs from how a hierarchically structured traditional band would approach and perform a given song.
Mario Giuseppe Camporeale plays trombone in Titubanda, an activist street band in Rome, Italy. He graduated in classic guitar performance at the Conservatory N. Piccinni of Bari and holds a Master’s Degree in DAMS of Bologna. He works as a music teacher for children.
Mario Giuseppe Camporeale
This chapter gives insight into the creative and performing processes of Titubanda, showing how this Italian activist street band approaches a new song from the initial reading of the score to its performance and inclusion into the band's repertoire. It compares an arrangement written by a band member of Sun Ra’s “Love in Outerspace” and the transcription of two choruses of the same song from a recorded rehearsal. This comparison highlights the differences and relationships between the arrangement and the transcription. It shows how orality, creativity, and what I call “unconscious and conscious heterophony” are intrinsic elements of performance for a multi-level leaderless street band that includes players unable to read music. This performance method greatly differs from how a hierarchically structured traditional band would approach and perform a given song.
Mario Giuseppe Camporeale plays trombone in Titubanda, an activist street band in Rome, Italy. He graduated in classic guitar performance at the Conservatory N. Piccinni of Bari and holds a Master’s Degree in DAMS of Bologna. He works as a music teacher for children.
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Link 8.1 (rehearsal 12.16.2015)
Link 8.2 (Two chorus of improvisation, accompanying Web Figure 8.4) |
Link 8.3 "Love in Outerspace" by Sun Ra
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Link 8.4 Transcription of 2 Choruses
Link 8.5 recording from album Acufene, March 2018 |
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Web figure 8.1: Lead Sheet for Sun Ra's Love in Outer Space
Web Figure 8.2: First draft of Titubanda's arrangement
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Web figure 8.3: Melody in 3 voices
Web Figure 8.4: Transcription of Two Choruses
Web Figure: 8.5: Chorus melody with ternary subdivisions
