The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

Author: Raymond Fearn

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781580460781

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"Most prominent of these is the three-movement Canti di prigionia (Songs of imprisonment), in which the composer created a powerful piece of "protest music" against the oppressions of fascism by setting prayers by three prisoners awaiting execution: Mary Stuart, Boethius, and Savonarola. Dallapiccola also set texts by writers as diverse as James Joyce, Salvatore Quasimodo, Antonio Machado, Goethe, and Heine."


Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Author: Ben Earle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0521844037

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Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte ('Night Flight') and Il prigioniero ('The Prisoner'), and the choral Canti di prigionia ('Songs of Imprisonment'), setting them in the context of contemporary politics to trace their complex path from fascism to resistance. Earle also considers the wider relationship between musical modernism and Italian fascism, exploring the origins of musical modernism and investigating its place in the institutional structures created by Mussolini's regime. In doing so, he sheds new light on Dallapiccola's work and on the cultural politics of the early twentieth century to provide a history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siècle to the early Cold War.


New Music at Darmstadt

New Music at Darmstadt

Author: Martin Iddon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1107033292

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The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the 'Darmstadt School'.


Nostalgia for the Future

Nostalgia for the Future

Author: Luigi Nono

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0520291204

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Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924–1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical, theoretical, critical, and political debates of the time. This selection of Nono’s most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (1948–1989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono’s words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications.


Style and Idea

Style and Idea

Author: Arnold Schoenberg

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780520052949

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One of the most influential collections of music ever published, Style and Idea includes Schoenberg’s writings about himself and his music as well as studies of many other composers and reflections on art and society.


Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono

Author: Carola Nielinger-Vakil

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0521845343

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Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines selected works by Nono in the historical context of Italy and Germany after 1945.


Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music

Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music

Author: Jack Boss

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1107046866

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Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer's 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life.


A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems

Author: Octavio Paz

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780811207386

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A collection of poems by Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz, presented in Spanish and in English.