The music of Luigi Dallapiccola / Raymond Fearn.

Author/creator Fearn, Raymond, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2003.
Descriptionxviii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEastman studies in music
Eastman studies in music.
Contents The beginnings: 1904-1938. Childhood and youth ; Due liriche del Kalevala ; Partita ; Estate ; Divertimento in quattro esercizi ; Musica per tre pianoforte (Inni) ; Sei cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane ; Tre laudi ; Volo di note -- Self-exile and discovery: 1939-1945. The discovery of Webern ; Piccolo concerto per Muriel Couvreux ; Canti di prigionia ; Marsia ; Editing Monteverdi's Ulisse ; Sonatina canonica ; Encounter with Webern ; Liriche greche -- Towards the light of freedom: 1945-1948. Ciaccona, intermezzo e adagio ; Due studi ; Rencesvals ; Il prigioniero -- The serial idea: 1948-1953. The principles of serialism ; Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado ; Tre poemi ; Job ; Tartiniana ; Quaderno musicale di Annalibera ; Goethe-lieder -- Text and symbol: 1954-1964. Piccola musica notturna ; Canti di liberazione ; An Mathilde ; Tartiniana seconda ; Cinque canti ; Concerto per la note di Natale dell'anno 1956 ; Requiescant ; Dialoghi ; Preghiere ; Parole di San Polo ; Three questions with two answers -- Ulysses, wanderer and discoverer: 1965-1975. Ulisse ; Sicut umbra ; Tempus destruendi - tempus aedificandi ; Commiato ; Journeyings and returns: the nature of Dallapiccola's art.
Abstract Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) was one of the most important Italian composers of the twentieth century. His music is admired by performers and listeners as much for its lyrical expressivity and emotional power as for its clarity of form and construction. As well as writing several operas (including the one-act The Prisoner and the later full-length Ulysses), Dallapiccola composed a large number of works in which the human voice, whether solo or in chorus, plays an important role. 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. This book is the first book in English which deals with the work of Dallapiccola as a whole, offering a survey of his development as a composer from the first, hesitant vocal compositions of his student years up to the works of his last decade, in which Italian lyricism is combined with great formal and constructional rigor. Dallapiccola was the first Italian to adopt the twelve-tone techniques of Schoenberg, but he placed them within a "Mediterranean" ambience of sensuousness and sharply contoured formal outlines. The author suggests that Dallapiccola should be understood not only as an influential figure in the postwar development of Italian music, but also as one who renewed and revitalized the older traditions of Italian music.
Local noteLittle-341783--305131048208Z
General noteList of compositions: pages 273-277.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index.
LCCN 2003007367
ISBN158046078X (alk. paper)
ISBN9781580460781 (alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML410.D138 F43 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold