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Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), an extraordinary, innovative, and
often controversial moving force in modern music, has been the
subject of a vast amount of literary criticism, philosophical
discussions, and groundbreaking performances. Originally in French,
Scelsi's writings have been included in anthologies of prose,
poetry, and memoires published in French, Italian, and German. For
the first time, this volume brings selected writings into English.
His writings enlighten the creative process and facilitate further
the understanding of his musical message. Franco Sciannameo and
Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini provide two introductory essays
followed by Scelsi's The Evolution of Harmony, The Evolution of
Rhythm, Art and Satanism, Unity and Equalityof the Arts, Meaning of
Music, Sound and Music, and Art and Knowledge-writings spanning
from the early 1940s to February 1987. Additionally, the editors
place Scelsi's aesthetical writings within a densely contextualized
historical, social, and cultural landscape to provide scholarly yet
approachable critical information. Iconographic plates,
bibliography, discography, videography, websites and a
comprehensive index complete the volume.
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy
provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's
position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music
within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian
composer has reached world fame as the creator of some 500 film
scores and hundreds more arrangements for commercial recordings;
however, Sciannameo argues that Morricone's legacy must include his
concert works, a catalogued list of more than 100 titles. By
analyzing the composer's formative years as a music practitioner
and his transition into the world of composing for the screen,
Franco Sciannameo reconsiders the best of Morricone's popular
compositions and reveals the challenging concert works which have
been an intimate expression of Morricone's lifelong creative
season. Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone explores
Morricone's legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on
posterity.
Released in 1972, 1974, and 1990 respectively, Francis Ford
Coppola's three-part saga is one of the greatest artistic
accomplishments (and financial successes) in the history of
Hollywood cinema. The latest in Scarecrow's Film Score Guides
series, Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score Guide
discusses the events that led to the realization of the three films
and studies and analyzes their music. Sciannameo reexamines The
Godfather Trilogy from a variety of perspectives, with special
focus on the music Rota composed to bind together approximately
nine hours of cinematic narrative. Probing Rota's formation as a
musician amidst the cultural climate established by Italian
Fascism, Sciannameo examines Rota's initial stylistic adherence to
the Mussolini-dictated or inspired concept of Italianness and then
his return to a more congenial 19th-century formulaic vocabulary.
Sciannameo considers Rota's involvement with cinema and his
collaboration with many celebrated directors, such as Luchino
Visconti, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, and Coppola, and
deals with the sensitive issues of cultural analysis vis-a-vis the
Mafia as a concept embedded within the Italian-American community.
The book also discusses the sound of the Godfather films,
describing and analyzing the musical subtexts underscoring a group
of pivotal scenes. Relying substantially on Rota's notes, which are
discussed here for the first time, the book reveals the composer's
interpretation of Coppola's cinematic narrative and the scoring
methodologies he employed.
Music as Dream: Essays on Giacinto Scelsi showcases recent
scholarly criticism on the music and philosophy of the brilliantly
original composer Giacinto Scelsi. In this collection, Franco
Sciannameo and Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini select and translate
into English for the first time essays that reflect the evolution
of recent scholarship on Scelsi's musical compositions. Music as
Dream opens with "The Scelsi Case," which erupted shortly after
Scelsi's death in 1988 when composer Vieri Tosatti claimed
ownership of his works. This quarrel reached its zenith in the
pages of PianoTime's March 1989 issue, where musicologist Guido
Zaccagnini questioned a group of noted composers, writers, and arts
managers about whether a composer can claim sole authorship for a
work accomplished in collaboration with others. The essays are
wide-ranging in scope. French musicologist Michelle Biget-Mainfroy,
a specialist in "gestural" piano writing, offers an in-depth study
of Scelsi's complex piano output; Gianmario Borio looks at Scelsi's
"Sound as Compositional Process"; Alessandra Montali examines and
details Scelsi's theoretical and literary writings; Luciano
Martinis and Franco Sciannameo explore the lives and whereabouts of
obscure composers Giacinto Sallustio, Walther Klein, and Richard
Falk, who were Scelsi's collaborators until the early 1940s when
Tosatti took sole charge; Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini elaborates
on Scelsi's most important composition of his first period,
presenting a tour-de-force that pieces together its complex story
through research at the newly organized Scelsi Archive at the
Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome; and Friedrich Jaecker's and
Sandro Marrocu's essays also draw on research conducted at the
archive of Fondazione. Finally, an updated bibliography and
discography conclude the book
Musicians' Migratory Patterns: The Adriatic Coasts contains essays
dedicated to the movement of musicians along and across the coasts
of the Adriatic Sea. In the course of this book, the musicians
become narrators of their own stories seen through the lenses of
wanderlust, opportunity, exile, and refuge. Essayists in this
collection are scholars hailing from Croatia, Italy, and Greece.
They are internationally known for their passionate advocacy of
musicians' migratory rights and faithfulness to the lesson imparted
by the history of immigration in the broadest of terms. Spanning
the Venetian Republic's domination, the demise of the Ottoman
Empire, the European nationalistic movements of mid-nineteenth
century, the shocking outcomes of World War One, and the dramatic
shifts of frontiers that continue to occur in our time, the
chapters of this book guide the reader on a voyage through the
Adriatic Sea-from the Gulf of Venice and the peninsula of Istria,
to Albania, the Island of Corfu, and other Ionian outposts.
Since the eighteenth century, violin concertos have provided a
showcase for dramatic interplay between a soloist's virtuosity and
the blended sonority of an orchestra's many instruments. Using this
genre to showcase skill and ingenuity, composers cemented the
violin concerto as a key genre of classical music and gifted our
ears with such timeless masterpieces as Vivaldi's Four Seasons. In
Experiencing the Violin Concerto, Franco Sciannameo draws on his
years of scholarship and violin performance to trace the genre
through Baroque, Classical, and modern periods. Along the way, he
explores the social and personal histories of composers, and the
fabulous virtuosi who performed concertos, and audiences they
conquered worldwide. Inviting readers to consider not only the
components of the music but also the power of perception and
experience, Sciannameo recreates the atmosphere of a live
performance as he paints a narrative history of technique and
innovation. Experiencing the Violin Concerto uses descriptions in
place of technical jargon to make the world of classical music
accessible to amateur music lovers. As part of the Listener's
Companion series, the volume gives readers an enhanced experience
of key works by investigating the environments in which the works
were written and first performed as well as those in which they are
enjoyed today.
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy
provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone's
position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music
within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian
composer has reached world fame as the creator of some 500 film
scores and hundreds more arrangements for commercial recordings;
however, Sciannameo argues that Morricone's legacy must include his
concert works, a catalogued list of more than 100 titles. By
analyzing the composer's formative years as a music practitioner
and his transition into the world of composing for the screen,
Franco Sciannameo reconsiders the best of Morricone's popular
compositions and reveals the challenging concert works which have
been an intimate expression of Morricone's lifelong creative
season. Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone explores
Morricone's legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on
posterity.
Musicians' Migratory Patterns: The Adriatic Coasts contains essays
dedicated to the movement of musicians along and across the coasts
of the Adriatic Sea. In the course of this book, the musicians
become narrators of their own stories seen through the lenses of
wanderlust, opportunity, exile, and refuge. Essayists in this
collection are scholars hailing from Croatia, Italy, and Greece.
They are internationally known for their passionate advocacy of
musicians' migratory rights and faithfulness to the lesson imparted
by the history of immigration in the broadest of terms. Spanning
the Venetian Republic's domination, the demise of the Ottoman
Empire, the European nationalistic movements of mid-nineteenth
century, the shocking outcomes of World War One, and the dramatic
shifts of frontiers that continue to occur in our time, the
chapters of this book guide the reader on a voyage through the
Adriatic Sea-from the Gulf of Venice and the peninsula of Istria,
to Albania, the Island of Corfu, and other Ionian outposts.
Federico Fellini entered the pantheon of 20th-Century artists for
his path-breaking films like, La dolce vita (1960) and Otto e mezzo
(1963). However, it was with Amarcord (1973), that Fellini achieved
universal fame. That celebration of youth and memory transcends all
barriers of ethnic origin and national belonging by simply
appealing to human commonalities. Similarly, Nino Rota's music, an
integral part of this film, eludes cultural boundaries by blending
learned and popular musical styles - as in a folk-opera in which
stories or episodes are expressed through song and dance
representative of everyday life. By juxtaposing music and images,
their own creative personae and their youth as it relates to our
collective memories, Fellini and Rota made this film about
"remembering youth" an unforgettable experience for generations of
viewers and listeners. This monograph is of interest to scholars of
music, cinema, and cultural studies.
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