The twelve-tone music of Luigi Dallapiccola
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The twelve-tone music of Luigi Dallapiccola
（Eastman studies in music, [v. 76]）
University of Rochester Press, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-316) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reveals the great twentieth-century Italian composer's innovative handling of harmony, form, and text setting.
Luigi Dallapiccola was one of twentieth century's most accomplished and admired composers. His music incorporated many of the twelve-tone techniques developed by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton von Webern, but blended their expressionistic impulses with an Italianate sense of lyricism. Brian Alegant's The Twelve-Tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola traces the evolution of Dallapiccola's compositional technique over a thirty-year period (1942-74). Using both historical and music-analytical lenses, this book documents the influences of Webern and Schoenberg, highlights Dallapiccola's innovative handling of harmony, form, and text setting, and sheds light on several worksthat have been virtually ignored. Alegant's book will be a crucial source of insights for scholars and other readers interested in twentieth-century music.
Brian Alegant is Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory.
Table of Contents
Introduction
On the Twelve-Tone Road (1942-1950)
Aphorism and the Appropriation of Webernian Techniques(1950-1955)
The Apex of the Schoenbergian and Webernian Influence(1956-1960)
Consolidation and Synthesis (1960-1972)
Dallapiccola's Idiosyncratic Approach to "Octatonic Serialism"
An Mathilde: An Unsung Cantata
Parole di San Paolo: "A Performance under a Glass Bell"
Afterword
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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