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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.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Sweet Thunder
• Author: Vivienne Suvini-Hand
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781904350606
• ISBN: 1904350607
• ID: 05023666
• Publisher: Maney Publishing
• Weight: 818 g
• Dimensions: 175 × 255 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. December 2006

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