Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Bibliographic Data

ID19902158
AuthorsBen Earle (University of Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-08-15
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLuigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139033329
OpenAlexW1523812499
ISBN9781139033329
Open LibraryOL34559012M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte ('Night Flight') and Il prigioniero ('The Prisoner'), and the choral Canti di prigionia ('Songs of Imprisonment'), setting them in the context of contemporary politics to trace their complex path from fascism to resistance. Earle also considers the wider relationship between musical modernism and Italian fascism, exploring the origins of musical modernism and investigating its place in the institutional structures created by Mussolini's regime. In doing so, he sheds new light on Dallapiccola's work and on the cultural politics of the early twentieth century to provide a history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siècle to the early Cold War

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology) · Humanities · Imprisonment · Literature · Modernism (music) · Musical · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Witness · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Choral music · Faschismus · Fascism and music · Italy · Moderne · Music, italian · Musik · Opera

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