Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy

by Vivienne Suvini-Hand

Overview

This book offers a detailed examination of the literary influences behind the experimental music of five twentieth-century Italian composers: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni and Armando Gentilucci.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604295
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

List of Illustrations x

Introduction 1

1 Twentieth-Century Italian Music in the Context of European and American Experimentalism from Verismo to the Seventies 7

2 Luigi Dallapiccola's Ulisse (1960-68) 27

3 Luciano Berio's Laborintus II (1965) 73

4 Armando Gentilucci's Strofe di Ungaretti (1967) 101

5 Giacomo Manzoni's Parole da Beckett (1970) 135

6 Bruno Maderna's Ausstrahlung (1971) 151

Conclusion 177

Libretti 180

Bibliography of Works 274

Critical Bibliography 288

Index 292

Editorial Reviews

Chapter 7 displays the dominating element of the five compositions: the reassertion of spiritual values over the material values of 1960s Italy. This distinctive tone makes these compositions uniquely commendable for further investigations into their influence on Italy's artistic canon.

Forum for Modern Language Studies, 47.1, January 2011 - unsigned notice

The term "libretto" names the text — usually poetic — set to music by the composer of an opera. Published separately from the vocal or full scores, this "little book" will also give stage directions and a list of characters. Of the five works studied by Vivienne Suvini-Hand, only Luigi Dallapiccola's Ulisse (Berlin, 1968) has a libretto... But Italian composers of the 1960s had not ceased to write operas, even if the younger generation preferred to call their music-theatrical assaults on bourgeois proprieties "azioni sceniche".

Modern Language Review, 103.4, October 2008, 1141-42 - Ben Earle