| Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy Contributor(s): Suvini-Hand, Vivienne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1904350607 ISBN-13: 9781904350606 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: 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 the music and libretti of five vocal compositions by leading experimental composers of the decade: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni, and Armando Gentilucci. It highlights how the difficult and unconventional methods of composition employed by these artists - dodecaphony, total serialism, Webernian minimalist techniques, aleatory and electronic music - displayed a refusal to compete with the market-place values of Italys new capitalist society. At the same time, the librettis' collage arrangement of a plethora of European and Oriental literary sources dating from the sixteenth century BC onwards, reflected the contemporary Neo-avant-garde rejection of conventional literary practice, and their preference for organised disorder, in Umberto Eco's phrase. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 782.009 |
| LCCN: 2007564177 |
| Series: Italian Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 7.05" W x 9.83" (1.82 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century Italian composers: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni and Armando Gentilucci. |
