Sweet Thunder - Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy (Hardcover)

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 Italy's new capitalist society. At the same time, the libretti's 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.

General

Imprint:	Maney Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Vivienne Suvini-Hand
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-904350-60-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
LSN:	1-904350-60-7
Barcode:	9781904350606

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