Author : Vivienne Suvini-Hand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351196219
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Book Synopsis Sweet Thunder by : Vivienne Suvini-Hand
Download or read book Sweet Thunder written by Vivienne Suvini-Hand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."