Frank Abbinanti
Biographic Data
| ID | 7349912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Abbinanti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbinanti |
| SIGNATURE | ABBINANTI F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Proximity to Liberation
This essay situates the music of Frederic Rzewski within a wider political context from 1968 to the present, drawing on the political reality that emerged as the New Left. His music, quite often text-based works, engaged issues surrounding emancipatory freedoms, economic crisis, ecology, labor, the human condition, and revolutions. The essay will discuss specific works that suggested an intense engagement, a proximity to his ongoing creative rela…
The Fragments of Redemption
Ralph Shapey utilized an on-going ‘theology’ throughout his life to guide the composition of his music. Visits to Israel in the 1970s helped solidify his new creativity in search of meanings. His work began to embrace Judaic thought and history, culminating in a final opera on Moses later revised, and an unfinished oratorio. Notes [1] Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003) was a ‘fideist’ where the emphasis on faith animated his thinking, as Shapey's, who p…
What needs to be done’
Earle Brown's music suggests a return to the beginnings of modernity within the American experience, how composers came to terms with the ‘events’, the innovations of the 1950s. Jackson Pollock and the concept of flatness was one such ‘event’, but also the ‘unknown’, the indeterminate, ‘voids’ and ‘spaces’, mobile and static, as from Alexander Calder's work. In this article the discussion is limited simply to paradigms and contexts that the autho…
Sections of Exergue 1 / Evocations / Dialogue with Timbre
This article is a pastiche of brief thoughts that I hold on six important works by Helmut Lachenmann: Guero and Serynade for piano, his first string quartet, Gran Torso, a duo for guitars called Salut für Caudwell, his opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, and his double concerto NUN. As a pianist, the thoughts on the techniques used in the two piano works are hopefully insightful to new pianists looking to broaden their repertoires. The oth…
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Sections of Exergue 1 / Evocations / Dialogue with Timbre
This article is a pastiche of brief thoughts that I hold on six important works by Helmut Lachenmann: Guero and Serynade for piano, his first string quartet, Gran Torso, a duo for guitars called Salut für Caudwell, his opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, and his double concerto NUN. As a pianist, the thoughts on the techniques used in the two piano works are hopefully insightful to new pianists looking to broaden their repertoires. The oth…
What needs to be done’
Earle Brown's music suggests a return to the beginnings of modernity within the American experience, how composers came to terms with the ‘events’, the innovations of the 1950s. Jackson Pollock and the concept of flatness was one such ‘event’, but also the ‘unknown’, the indeterminate, ‘voids’ and ‘spaces’, mobile and static, as from Alexander Calder's work. In this article the discussion is limited simply to paradigms and contexts that the autho…
The Fragments of Redemption
Ralph Shapey utilized an on-going ‘theology’ throughout his life to guide the composition of his music. Visits to Israel in the 1970s helped solidify his new creativity in search of meanings. His work began to embrace Judaic thought and history, culminating in a final opera on Moses later revised, and an unfinished oratorio. Notes [1] Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003) was a ‘fideist’ where the emphasis on faith animated his thinking, as Shapey's, who p…
Proximity to Liberation
This essay situates the music of Frederic Rzewski within a wider political context from 1968 to the present, drawing on the political reality that emerged as the New Left. His music, quite often text-based works, engaged issues surrounding emancipatory freedoms, economic crisis, ecology, labor, the human condition, and revolutions. The essay will discuss specific works that suggested an intense engagement, a proximity to his ongoing creative rela…
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