Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews
- Author: Nono
- Translator: O'Donnell, John
- Editor: Benedictis, Angela Ida De
- Editor: Rizzardi, Veniero
The appeal of what the English music historian Harriet Boyd-Bennett called Nono's 'sonic hubub' is elucidated in this long overdue collection of the composer's writings and interviews. A comparable... — More…
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$48.00Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- EXERGO: Clarifications (1956)
- EXCURSUS I. An Autobiography of the Author Recounted by Enzo Restagno (1987)
- PART ONE. MUSICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPOSITION
- 1. Luigi Dallapiccola and the Sex Carmina Alcaei (ca. 1948)
- 2. On the Development of Serial Technique (1956)
- 3. The Development of Serial Technique (1957)
- 4. Text-Music-Song (1960)
- 5. [About Il canto sospeso] (1976)
- EXCURSUS II. A Letter from Los Angeles (1965)
- PART TWO. MUSIC ONSTAGE: FROM A "THEATER OF IDEAS" TO THE "TRAGEDY OF LISTENING"
- 1. Some Clarifications on Intolleranza 1960 (1962)
- 2. Possibility and Necessity of a New Music Theater (1962)
- 3. Play and Truth in the New Music Theater (1962)
- 4. Die Ermittlung: A Musical and Theatrical Experience with Weiss and Piscator [Music and Theater] (1966)
- 5. Toward Prometeo: Journal Fragments (1984)
- EXCURSUS III. Interview with Renato Garavaglia (ca. 1979-80)
- PART THREE. "CONSCIENCE, FEELINGS, COLLECTIVE REALITY"
- 1. Historical Presence of Music Today (1959)
- 2. Music and Resistance (1963)
- 3. Replies to Seven Questions by Martine Cadieu (1966)
- 4. Music and Power (1969)
- 5. In the Sierra and in the Parliament (1971)
- EXCURSUS IV. Technology to Discover a Universe of Sounds: Interview with Walter Prati and Roberto Masotti (1983)
- PART FOUR. PORTRAITS AND DEDICATIONS
- 1. Josef Svoboda (1968)
- 2. Remembering Two Musicians (1973)
- 3. Victor Jara's Song (1974)
- 4. Preface to Arnold Schoenberg's Harmonielehre (1977)
- 5. Bartok the Composer (1981)
- 6. For Helmut (1983)
- 7. For Marino Zuccheri (1986)
- EXCURSUS V. Interview with Michelangelo Zurletti (1987)
- PART FIVE. THE "POSSIBLE INFINITIES"
- 1. Error as a Necessity (1983)
- 2. Other Possibilities for Listening (1985)
- 3. Lecture at the Chartreuse in Villeneuve-les-Avignon (1989)
- EXCURSUS VI. "Proust" Questionnaire (1986)
- Notes and Abbreviations
- Bibliographical Notes and Comments to the Texts
- Chronology of Nono's Works
- Index