La voce dei poeti in area romana. Uno studio fonetico sulle letture di cinque poeti contemporanei

The reading of poetry, studied from a phonetic perspective, represents a relevant aspect for the investigation of the musical system of poetry. In particular, the experimental studies conducted in America, Germany (MacArthur et al., 2018 and Meyer-Sickendiek et al., 2018) and Italy, with phonetic methodologies (VIP-Voices of Italian Poets project), pointed out a heterogeneous and rich contemporary panorama. In order to conduct a study of the poetry prosodic heterogeneity in the Italian capital, our work analyses and compares a selection of Roman poets, all of them included into the VIP archive. Namely, the voices of Maria Grazia Calandrone, Claudio Damiani, Biancamaria Frabotta, Daniele Mencarelli and Laura Pugno. The study uses experimental phonetics tools and the VIP-project methodology, considering a selection of acoustic and stylistic indexes. It highlights different prosodic styles in relation to the textual features, with common and divergent traits mainly on an organizational, melodic and rhythmic level. The results of this research follow the partition of contemporary poetry voices presented in Colonna (2021), confirming the variation and the change in the poetic prosody, also in a same area.