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- Nostalgia for the Future: Luigi Nono's Selected Writings and Interviews
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music
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Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924–1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical, theoretical, critical, and political debates of the time.
This selection of Nono’s most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (1948–1989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono’s words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications.
This selection of Nono’s most significant essays, articles, and interviews covers his entire career (1948–1989), faithfully mirroring the interests, orientations, continuities, and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre, painting, literature, politics, science, and even mysticism. Nono’s words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience, one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces, its audiences, and its human and social motivations and ramifications.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-22
- Overture. Clarifications (1956)
- pp. 23-26
- Part One. Musical Analysis and Composition
- 4. Text—Music—Song (1960)
- pp. 153-178
- 5. [About Il canto sospeso] (1976)
- pp. 179-184
- Part Two. Music Onstage: From a "Theater of Ideas" to the "Tragedy of Listening"
- 5. Toward Prometeo: Journal Fragments (1984)
- pp. 235-246
- Part Three. "Conscience, Feelings, Collective Reality"
- 1. Historical Presence of Music Today (1959)
- pp. 265-272
- 2. Music and Resistance (1963)
- pp. 273-276
- 4. Music and Power (1969)
- pp. 287-297
- Part Four. Portraits and Dedications
- 1. Josef Svoboda (1968)
- pp. 321-324
- 2. Remembering Two Musicians (1973)
- pp. 325-327
- 3. Victor Jara’s Song (1974)
- pp. 328-331
- 5. Bartók the Composer (1981)
- pp. 338-344
- 6. For Helmut (1983)
- pp. 345-348
- 7. For Marino Zuccheri (1986)
- pp. 349-358
- Part Five. the "Possible Infinities"
- 1. Error as a Necessity (1983)
- pp. 367-369
- 2. Other Possibilities for Listening (1985)
- pp. 370-384
- Excursus VI. “Proust” Questionnaire (1986)
- pp. 391-394
- Chronology of Nono’s Works
- pp. 471-478
- General Index
- pp. 479-488
- Index of Luigi Nono’s Works
- pp. 489-490
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520965027
Related ISBN(s)
9780520291195, 9780520291201
MARC Record
OCLC
1013528263
Pages
504
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No