Sweet Thunder: Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Twentieth-Century Italian Music in the Context of European and American Experimentalism from Verismo to the Seventies
• 2. Luigi Dallapiccola's Ulisse (1960-68)
• 3. Luciano Berio's Laborintus II (1965)
• 4. Armando Gentilucci's Strofe di Ungaretti (1967)
• 5. Giacomo Manzoni's Parole da Beckett (1970)
• 6. Bruno Maderna's Ausstrahlung (1971)
• 7. Conclusion