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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis unique essay collection (the first on the composer in English) documents the evolution of scholarship about the compositions of Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) since his death. Sciannameo (fine arts, Carnegie Mellon U.) and Pellegrini, a musicologist and twentieth-century music specialist, assemble and translate 11 essays on his music and philosophy that were originally published in Italian, German, and French. European musicologists, performers, and composers, as well as a friend of Scelsi, analyze gestures in his piano music; his compositional process; the expressive atonality in his music; his theoretical and literary writings; the lives of his collaborators, composers Giacinto Sallustio, Walther Klein, and Richard Falk; his early work Rotativa; and the improvisations on audio tapes at the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi archives. Also included is a roundtable discussion from 1989 that considers debates about the authorship of his compositions after his death, when Vieri Tosatti claimed authorship. A comprehensive and detailed discography of recordings and collections is included. * Book News, Inc. *
This is doubtlessly a true of the German musicology. * Info-Netz-Musik *
