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In the library devoted to the Italian composer Armando Gentilucci (1939–1989) are preserved his sound recordings, books and sheet music. Their belonging to the library does not make less significant their existence. Actually, beyond the appearance of cultural assets the Gentilucci's own property embodies a so much deeper heritage. It takes part to the growth and to the spread of knowledge, renovating and producing thought.

So as the most of documents which are preserved in it, many items of Gentilucci's archive can be directly approached. Papers and works, objects and documents ask for getting close near to books and music scores which were examined by the composer during the study which usually came first the creation of new works. The proximity provokes references, citations, parallelisms and this motion inside the works and the ideas inflames the thought to enrich some field lines, to produce some new representations of knowledge.

How knowledge can be spread through a particular arrangement of book and non‐book materials entails a clear foreshadow of aims. These aims are due to a planning awareness and to a well‐chosen insight that a music library, according to Gentilucci, who directed for twenty years the Music Institute in Reggio Emilia, had to fit an innovative concept of the culture. This idea does not take the objects, which are preserved in the library, so as an end in themselves but converts them in means of growth and development in cultural research. In this library's concept all of music obtains its complete fulfillment. Every sounding event, whenever assigned of cultural task, becomes a goal of constant innovation, and this eternal relating new with listener, establishes a constant relationship between himself in the present and the history in the past. It grabs all together in the fastened game of own proper language, which is an action language. At the aim to involve in this action Gentilucci oriented his pedagogical perspective toward an active listening: a cognitive experience which was to be extended by means of a wide open library.