Sweet Thunder

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 five vocal compositions by leading experimental composers of the decade - Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoui, and Armando Gentilucci. Their 'difficult' and unconventional methods of composition - dodecaphony, total serialism, Webernian minimalist techniques, aleatory and electronic music - reveal a refusal to compete with the market-place values of Italy's new capitalist society. At the same time, their libretti - reproduced here in full parallel Italian and English text - form a collage arrangement of European and Oriental literary sources dating from the sixteenth century BC onwards. These are libretti as radical as their scores, reflecting a Neo-avant-garde rejection of conventional literary practice: they prefer 'organised disorder', hi Umberto Eco's phrase. Book jacket.

• | Author: Vivienne Suvini-Hand
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367604299
• | ISBN-13: 9780367604295