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Book SynopsisOf the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century. His music has found a listenership beyond the ageing constituency of contemporary music'. In Nono's work, the audiences of sound art, improvisation, electronic, experimental and radical musics of many kinds find common cause with those concerned with the renewal of Western art music. His work explores the individually and socially transformative role of music; its relationship with history and with language; the nature of the musical work as distributed through text, time, technology and individuals; the nature and performativity of the act of composition; and, above all, the role and nature of listening as a cultural activity. In many respects his music anticipates the new technological state of culture of the twenty-f
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'Jonathan Impett’s substantial and comprehensive Handbook…offers a formidable combination of aesthetic empathy and technical clear-headedness.’
Arnold Whittall, The Musical Times, AUTUMN 2019, Vol. 160, No. 1948
Table of Contents1. Prolegomena: a Venetian Pre-biography 2. Accelerated Learning: Years of Study 1942-1950 3. Confronting Modernism: Darmstadt 4. Taking positions: song 5. ‘Docere e movere’: Il canto sospeso 6. Poetry and drama 7. Intolleranza 1960 8. New spaces: studio, street, factory 9. Manifestos 10. Al gran sole carico d’amore 11. Waves 12. Verso Prometeo 13. a tragedy of listening 14. Resonances 15. Possible worlds
