Sweet thunder : music and libretti in 1960s Italy / Vivienne Suvini-Hand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suvini-Hand, Vivienne.

Series:

Italian perspectives ; 16.

Italian perspectives ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocal music--Italy--20th century--History and criticism.

Vocal music.

Vocal music--Italy--Analysis, appreciation.

Italy.

Genre:

Vocal music.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Lengenda, 2006.

Summary:

Italian music of the 1960s is one of the most unjustly neglected areas in the arena of twentieth-century classical music. This volume pays tribute to the astounding complexity of five vocal compositions by leading experimental composers of the decade - Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni, and Armando Gentilucci. Their 'difficult' and unconventional methods of composition - dodecaphony, total serialism, Webernian minimalist, techniques, aleatory and electronic music - reveal a refusal to compete with the market place values of Italy's new capitalist society. At the same time, their libretti - reproduced here in full parallel Italian and English text - form a collage arrangement of European and Oriental literary sources dating from the sixteenth century BC onwards.These are libretti as radical as their scores, reflecting a Neo-avant-garde rejection of conventional literary practice: they prefer 'organised disorder', in Umberto Eco's phrase.

Contents:

1 Twentieth-Century Italian Music in the Context of European and American Expermientalism from Verismo to the Seventies 7

2 Luigi Dallapiccola's Ulisse (1960-68) 27

3 Luciano Berio's Laboritus II (1965) 73

4 Armando Gentilucci's Strofe di Ungaretti (1967) 101

5 Giacomo Manzoni's Parole da Beckett (1970) 135

6 Bruno Maderna's Ausstrahlung (1971) 151

Libretti 180

Bibliography of Works 274

Critical Bibliography 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1904350607

9781904350606

OCLC:

77705064