Nicoletta Betta


Senior Editor

Italy

NICOLETTA BETTA studied Modern Literature and the History of Music at the University of Turin with a dissertation on Italian music criticism in the first half of the twentieth century. During her second level Master’s degree she organized public concert seasons held at contemporary art museums. She obtained a two year private scholarship to develop research on musical debates in the early twentieth century Italian press. She is co-author of the volume Il Teatro di Torino di Riccardo Gualino (1925-1930): Studi e documenti (Lucca: LIM, 2013), the first reconstruction of the history of this cultural institution, in addition to several articles on the operatic and symphonic seasons of this theatre, published in music journals and miscellaneous volumes such as Music Criticism 1900-1950, ed. Jordi Ballester and Germán Gan Quesada (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018). She is co-editor (with M. Rizzuti) of the volume Cento Primavere: Ferocità e feracità del Sacre du Printemps (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2014). She  has been a collaborator with the University of Turin’s Department for the Humanities for organization of and scientific contribution to conferences.

In 2006 she began collaboration with RIPM, first as a contributor from Italy, then as Assistant Editor (2013) and Senior Editor (2018). She supervises and edits for the RIPM Retrospective Index. She has given papers at conferences of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML), and is currently indexing La Rassegna musicale (Turin, 1928-1962), her fourth Italian journal project.


Journals contributed to by Nicoletta Betta

Date Title Language Release Publication
1989-1993 Blu Jazz (Rome, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Jazz
1934-1936 Bollettino dei musicisti (Rome, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Index
1914-1916 International Music and Drama (New York City, NY) English | Italian Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1963-1965 Jazz Land (Milan, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Jazz
1993-1995 Jazz Not Jazz (Palermo, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Jazz
1963-1965 Jazz. Bollettino di informazioni del Circolo Triestino jazz (Trieste, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Jazz
1924-1926 Musica e Scena. Rivista mensile di arte e di teatro (Milan, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft
1951-1952 Musique contemporaine (Paris, France) French Full Text RIPM Index
1993-1994 Nerosubianco (Rome, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Jazz
1921-1929 Il Pensiero Musicale (Bologna, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft In Print
1920-1927 Il Pianoforte (Turin, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Index RIPM ft In Print
1928-1943, 1947-1962 La Rassegna musicale (Rome, Italy | Turin, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Index
1992-1999 Il Sismografo (Rome, Italy) Italian Full Text RIPM Jazz

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