Nino Pirrotta: An Intellectual Biography Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 103, Part 1)

As a scholarly discipline and doctoral—level univ. course, musicology (the academic study of music in its historical and anthropological contexts) is about a century old. This is the first full—scale portrait of one of musicology’s most distinguished practitioners. Nino Pirrotta (1908—98) was educated in Palermo and Florence, but was not able to study music history systematically, so he created his own distinctive vision of the discipline. After appointments at the conservatories of Palermo...