{"product_id":"nostalgia-for-the-future-9780520291201","title":"Nostalgia for the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (19241990). 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 (19481989), 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 French edition of this material appeared back in 1993, which indicates how belated, albeit still timely, its insights are for opera lovers undeterred by avant garde sounds.\"  * Opera Now *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e EXERGO: Clarifications (1956)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EXCURSUS I. An Autobiography of the Author Recounted by Enzo Restagno (1987)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. MUSICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPOSITION\u003cbr\u003e 1. Luigi Dallapiccola and the Sex Carmina Alcaei (ca. 1948)\u003cbr\u003e 2. On the Development of Serial Technique (1956)\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Development of Serial Technique (1957)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Text—Music—Song (1960)\u003cbr\u003e 5. [About Il canto sospeso] (1976)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EXCURSUS II. A Letter from Los Angeles (1965)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. MUSIC ONSTAGE: FROM A \"THEATER OF IDEAS\" TO THE \"TRAGEDY OF LISTENING\"\u003cbr\u003e 1. Some Clarifications on Intolleranza 1960 (1962)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Possibility and Necessity of a New Music Theater (1962)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Play and Truth in the New Music Theater (1962)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Die Ermittlung: A Musical and Theatrical Experience with Weiss and Piscator [Music and Theater] (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Toward Prometeo: Journal Fragments (1984)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EXCURSUS III. Interview with Renato Garavaglia (ca. 1979–80)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE. \"CONSCIENCE, FEELINGS, COLLECTIVE REALITY\"\u003cbr\u003e 1. Historical Presence of Music Today (1959)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Music and Resistance (1963)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Replies to Seven Questions by Martine Cadieu (1966)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Music and Power (1969)\u003cbr\u003e 5. In the Sierra and in the Parliament (1971)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EXCURSUS IV. Technology to Discover a Universe of Sounds: Interview with Walter Prati and Roberto Masotti (1983)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR. PORTRAITS AND DEDICATIONS\u003cbr\u003e 1. Josef Svoboda (1968)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Remembering Two Musicians (1973)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Victor Jara’s Song (1974)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Preface to Arnold Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre (1977)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bartók the Composer (1981)\u003cbr\u003e 6. For Helmut (1983)\u003cbr\u003e 7. For Marino Zuccheri (1986)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EXCURSUS V. Interview with Michelangelo Zurletti (1987)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FIVE. THE \"POSSIBLE INFINITIES\"\u003cbr\u003e 1. Error as a Necessity (1983)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Other Possibilities for Listening (1985)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lecture at the Chartreuse in Villeneuve-les-Avignon (1989)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EXCURSUS VI. “Proust” Questionnaire (1986)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical Notes and Comments to the Texts\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Nono’s Works\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864904544599,"sku":"9780520291201","price":28.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520291201.jpg?v=1722273276","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nostalgia-for-the-future-9780520291201","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}