The Twelve-tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

The Twelve-tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola
Author: Brian Alegant
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580463258

Reveals the great twentieth-century Italian composer's innovative handling of harmony, form, and text setting.

Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy
Author: Ben Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521844037

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.

The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola
Author: Raymond Fearn
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781580460781

"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."

New Music at Darmstadt

New Music at Darmstadt
Author: Martin Iddon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107033292

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
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520291204

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.

Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono
Author: Carola Nielinger-Vakil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521845343

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

Style and Idea

Style and Idea
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520052949

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.

Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music

Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music
Author: Jack Boss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107046866

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
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1979
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780811207386

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

The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900

The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900
Author: Laura Hamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108470289

An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.