Utopia, Innovation, Tradition (eBook)

Bruno Maderna's Cosmos

Angela Ida De Benedictis (Herausgeber)

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2023
480 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
9781800108974 (ISBN)

Infos

This book, first collection of essays in English on Bruno Maderna, brings the reader closer to one of the greatest European composer and conductor of the last century.Utopia, Innovation, Tradition: Bruno Maderna's cosmos is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to one of the most multifaceted and interesting musical personalities of the 20th century, a protagonist in the development of new music after World War II. The various essays cover the most important aspects of Bruno Maderna's peculiar compositional approach and, thanks to innovative methodological perspectives based mainly on the study of archival materials, arrive at new and often completely unexpected interpretations.

Inhalt

Introduction

Staging And Performing Sounds: A Glance Through The Last Theatrical Work
- Angela Ida De Benedictis, delving into Bruno Maderna's Satyricon: the looking glass world of storytelling, performance interference, and authorship
- Benedetta Zucconi, "in the beginning was the word": the sung text as a unifying element in the composition of Bruno Maderna's Satyricon

Building Sounds: The Composer
- Carlo Ciceri, space in Maderna's last orchestral works
- Pascal Decroupet, the unity of musical practice: Bruno Maderna and his "shaping form" as composer and performer of experimental orchestral music

creating sound: the music beyond/without the stage
- Nicola Scaldaferri, "a walk through a musical garden": compositional paths in Maderna's late works
- Leo Izzo, narrating with sounds: Bruno Maderna's music for radio and film

reinventing sounds: dialogues with music of every epoch and style
- Michele Chiappini, the writing of the interpretation: notes on Bruno Maderna's arrangements
- Benedetta Zucconi, analysis and synthesis in Bruno Maderna's creative process:
Don Giovanni and other Mozart scores
- Leo Izzo, Bruno Maderna and his arrangements

Across Borders: The Conductor And The Interpreter
- Maurizio Romito, "this Bruno looks like Fiorello" Maderna in the U.S.A. (1965-72)
- Anne C. Shreffler, Maderna goes to Tanglewood: the role of American networks in
the origins and reception of Venetian journal and Satyricon

Searching For Roots: The Development Of A Style
- Veniero Rizzardi, Venice to Europe: Bruno Maderna before and after 1948
- Christoph Neidhöfer, "la révolution dans la continuité": the presence of the past in Bruno Maderna's creative process (1948-55)

Staging And Performing Texts: A Glance Through Early Dramaturgical And Vocal Works
- Claudia Vincis, the studi per "il processo" Di Franz Kafka, and their stage sources
- Paolo dal Molin, Maderna and the poets, 1938-48

Chronology of Bruno Maderna's works

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Paul Sacher Foundation
• Reihe/Serie: Paul Sacher Foundation
• Co-Autor: Michele Chiappini, Claudia Vincis, Benedetta Zucconi, Carlo Ciceri, Leo Izzo, Paolo dal Molin, Christoph Neidhofer, Veniero Rizzardi, Maurizio Romito, Nicola Scaldaferri, Anne C. Shreffler
• Zusatzinfo: 44 b/w, 105 colour
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 170 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: 20th century music • Bruno Maderna • Compositional Process • Conducting and Composing • Contemporary Music Theatre • Form • musical analysis • Notation • Performance Analysis • Reception • Sketch Study • Work in progress
• ISBN-13: 9781800108974 / 9781800108974