Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of music : (1836) : envisioning a social opera / English translation by E.A.V. (1867) ; edited and annotated by Franco Sciannameo.

Author/creator Mazzini, Giuseppe
Format Book
Publication InfoLewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
Descriptionix, 133 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Included WorkMazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872. Filosofia della musica. English.
Included WorkMazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872. Filosofia della musica.
Included WorkVenturi, Emilie Ashurst, -1893.
Included WorkSciannameo, Franco.
Portion of title Philosophy of music
SeriesStudies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 103
Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 103. ^A231525
Contents Foreword / by Lawrence Kramer -- Preface -- Introduction -- Philosophy of Music (1836) -- Giuseppe Mazzini: a chronology -- Appendix: Filosofia della musica, Mazzini's original Italian text.
Abstract Political thinker, philosopher, patriot, and republican, Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) sought solace from his intense activity as a political activist and writer by singing to his own guitar accompaniment. A genuine music lover, in 1836, Mazzini published a pamphlet (40 pages) entitled Filosofia della musica in which he denounced the condition into which music had fallen and suggested the remedy for its resurgence--this time as a social art. This publication of Mazzini's Philosophy of Music comes at a juncture when musicologists, especially in the English-speaking world, are increasingly reconsidering the topics and formulas through which the history of music in the nineteenth century has familiarly, for a long time now, been written. Mazzini's text offers this project some promising leads. It does not as theory but as practice, not for the answers it gives but for the questions it raises. Little known among English-speaking musical scholars, Mazzini's work is presented here in a version edited and annotated by Franco Sciannameo. It comprises (1) a Foreword by American leading musicologist Lawrence Kramer, (2) a historical introduction which also offers a critique of various commentaries on Mazzini?s work published in Italian and French during the past fifty years, (3) an English translation of Mazzini?s original text and notes published in 1867 by Emilie Ashurst Venturi with Mazzini's full approval, (4) a full bibliographical apparatus, (5) Mazzini's original Italian text.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004044913
ISBN0773464697

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