Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy(English, Hardcover, Earle Ben)

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Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy(English, Hardcover, Earle Ben) is written by Earle Ben and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521844037 (ISBN 10) and 9780521844031 (ISBN 13).

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte ('Night Flight') and Il prigioniero ('The Prisoner'), and the choral Canti di prigionia ('Songs of Imprisonment'), setting them in the context of contemporary politics to trace their complex path from fascism to resistance. Earle also considers the wider relationship between musical modernism and Italian fascism, exploring the origins of musical modernism and investigating its place in the institutional structures created by Mussolini's regime. In doing so, he sheds new light on Dallapiccola's work and on the cultural politics of the early twentieth century to provide a history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siecle to the early Cold War.