Selected Vocal Works by Progressive Italian
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ABSTRACT Title of Document: SELECTED VOCAL WORKS BY PROGRESSIVE ITALIAN COMPOSERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE CONFLUENCE OF NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM FROM THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I THROUGH POST-WORLD WAR I1 RECONSTRUCTION Stacey Lynn Mastrian, D.M.A., 2007 Directed By: Professor Dominic Cossa, School of Music This dissertation project explored the non-operatic vocal music (i.e., art song, chamber music, solo works, and other more experimental media) by Italian composers of the 20th century. This body of repertoire suffers from poor availability and quality of scores, recordings, performances, and information. Research took place in the U.S. and Italy-through musical investigations, personal collections and contacts, libraries, and online resources. The project was designed with several parameters in mind: 1. work was centered on the composers who cast the text and the piano or other "accompaniment" in important roles, with correspondingly complex rhythms and harmonies, and who melded cosmopolitan influences with Italianate lyricism, as opposed to those who merely continued in the simplistic, insular manner of their predecessors; 2. settings by Italian composers of texts in other languages were included (Apollinaire, Ibn-Ezra, Machado, Verlaine, etc.) in addition to settings of Italian poetry (d'Annunzio, Pavese, Ungaretti, etc.); 3. works were chosen that were not just for single voice and piano but also utilized other performing forces (i.e., chamber music, electronics.. .). Other selection factors included: score availability; range, voice type, and ability level of the works; performer availability; time restrictions for a given recital; and whether the pieces made sense musically and textually. The works selected for the three recitals at the University of Maryland were grouped in pairs of decades to provide flexibility and variety in language and style, while also illustrating trends within a given chronological period: Italian Vocal Music of the 19-teens and 1920s, Italian Vocal Music of the 1930s and 1940s, and Italian Vocal Music of the 1950s and 1960s. The composers represented were: Luciano Berio, Bruno Bettinelli, Valentino Bucchi, Alfredo Casella, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Luigi Cortese, Luigi Dallapiccola, Vincenzo Davico, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Barbara Giuranna, Roberto Lupi, Bruno Maderna, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Franco Margola, Virgilio Mortari, Luigi Nono, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Ottorino Respighi, Giacinto Scelsi, and Antonio Veretti. Numerous future projects are planned (lectures, recitals, database, website, translations, articles, recordings, anthologies), with the objective of acquainting people with these 20'"-century Italian vocal works and making them and information about them more readily available. SELECTED VOCAL WORKS BY PROGRESSIVE ITALIAN COMPOSERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE CONFLUENCE OF NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM FROM THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I THROUGH POST-WORLD WAR I1 RECONSTRUCTION Stacey Lynn Mastrian Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts 2007 Advisory Committee: Professor Dominic Cossa, Chair Professor Thomas DeLio Associate Professor Joseph Falvo Associate Professor Franqois Loup Lecturer Martha Randall O Copyright by Stacey Lynn Mastrian 2007 Table of Contents Table of Contents CD#1 Track Listing.. ............................................................1-2 CD#2 Track Listing. .............................................................3-4 CD#3 Track Listing.. .............................................................5-6 Italian Vocal Music of the 19-teens and 1920s (CD#l) Recital Program Program Notes Italian Vocal Music of the 1930s and 1940s (CD#2) Recital Program Program Notes Italian Vocal Music of the 1950s and 1960s (CD#3) Recital Program Program Notes Selected Bibliography.. .......................................................7- 18 CD#1 Track Listing Italian Vocal Music of the 19-teens and 1920s 33 tracks Oh! quanto siete pallida ... Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1:04 M'affaccio alla finestra... (1 895-1 968) 1109 Fiorin d'alloro ... 1:08 Oh! come fa la donna contadina... 1:13 from Stelle cadenti L'acqua come alla borrana Barbara Giuranna (I902-1998) 1:32 Arbero Peccerillo Giorgio Federico Ghedini 3: 10 from Quattro canti antichi (1 892- 1965) napoletani L'eco Gian Francesco Malipiero 1:26 from Tre Poesie di (1 882- 1973) Angelo Poliziano I1 porcellino di Pino Virgilio Mortari 3:24 from Giro giro tondo (1 902- 1993) Song from Keepsake Gian Francesco Malipiero 1: 19 L' Adieu Luigi Cortese (1 889-1976) 1:36 Heures d'8te Luigi Cortese 2: 15 Pour une Bacchante Vincenzo Davico (1 889-1969) :5 1 Pour une Amoureuse 1:55 from Trois Stipes Pantomina from Tre Liriche Antonio Veretti (1 900-1978) 2: 16 Quattrofavole romanesche Alfredo Casella (I883- 1947) I. Er coccodrillo 3:2 1 11. La carita 1:17 111. Er gatto e er cane 1:33 IV. L'elezzione der presidente 4:16 19. Passeggiata from Cinque Liriche Ildebrando Pizzetti (1 880-1968) 5: 13 20. Intermezzo melico from Tre Liriche Antonio Veretti 259 2 1. Crepuscolo from Deita Silvane Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) 350 Coplas Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco I. Sefior Alcalde Mayor.. 1:32 11. Manojito de alfileres ... 1:48 111. Gitano, porque vas preso? 1:34 IV. En medio de lo mar hay ... 2:02 v. Un estudiante tunante ... 1:oo VI. Herrnosa blanca azucena ... 155 VII. Cuando el juez mi 1:oo demando.. VIII. Un rosal hace una rosa ... IX. La mujer qu'engaiia un hombre ... X. Te pintari: en un cantar ... XI. Dentro de mi pecho hay ... Encore: 33. Apemantus's Grace Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1: 19 from Shakespeare Soizgs CD#2 Track Listing Italian Vocal Music of the 1930s and 1940s 28 tracks 1. Florete flores quasi lilium G. F. Ghedini 150 2. Quae est ista (1892-1965) 1:52 3. Assumpta est Maria in coelum 3:32 from Quattro duetti su testi sacri Liriche su Verlaine Bruno Maderna Aquarelles (1 920- 1973) 3 :42 Serenade 3 :O 1 Sagesse 7: 17 La gratitudine Roberto Lupi 1:47 Allegrezza (1908-1971) :55 Castita 1:30 La fonnica e il chicco di grano 1:08 from Sette Favole e Allegorie La donna ideale Luciano Berio 1:28 from Quattro canzoni popolari (1 925-2003) La primavera ha venido (I) Luigi Dallapiccola 1:52 from Quattro Liriclze (1 904- 1975) di Antonio Machado Aux zephirs Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1 :55 from Trois Po2mes de la Pleihde (1 895- 1968) Divertimento in Quattro Esercizi Luigi Dallapiccola I. Introduzione 2:58 11. Arietta 111. Bourree IV. Sicilians Variations sur "Le Carnaval de Virgilio Mortari Venise " (1 902- 1993) Dans la rue Sur les lagunes Carnaval Clair de lune sentimental Cantilene Virgilio Mortari I. Domani e festa 1:38 11. Ohime! disse il maturo 111. Le cose piccoline IV. Cecco Velluto V. 10 voglio bene la nonna Capri Giacinto Scelsi 2: 10 Una risata (1905-1988) 2~32 from Tre Canti di Primavera Encore: 28. La Errnita de San Simon Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 2:49 CD#3 Track Listing Italian Vocal Music of the 1950s and 1960s 23 tracks Sequenza III Luciano Berio (1925-2003) 8:22 per voce fernrninile Cinque Poesie di Apollinaire Luigi Cortese (1 889- 1976) per canto e pianoforte 1. Jamais 2:11 2. Priere 2:OO 3. Lettre-Poeme 1:20 4. L'amante :50 5. Je ne sais plus 2:24 Solitudine from L 'Allegria: Antonio Veretti (1900-1 978) 1:22 7 poesie di Giuseppe Ungaretti Possa tu giungere Franco Margola (1 908- 1992) 2: 12 per canto e pianoforte La natura mi parla from 3 liriche Bruno Bettinelli (1913-2004) 1:33 Vocalizzo notturno from Quattro Valentino Bucchi (1 9 16- 1976) 1:45 liriche per canto e pianoforte Djamila Boupacha Luigi Nono (I924- 1990) 4:26 from Canti di vita e d 'amore Selections from Mario Castelnuovo-Tesdesco The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra: (1895- 1968) A Cycle of Songs for Voice and Guitar, op. 207 From Part I - Songs of Wandering 1. When the morning of life had passed.. 3. Wrung with anguish.. From Part I11 - Of Wine, and of the Delights of the Songs of Men 7. Drink deep, my friend. 8. Dull and sad is the sky.. From Part IV - The World and its Vicissitudes 10. Men are children of this world.. 12. Only in God I trust. .. From Part V - The Transience of this World 13. Where are the graves.. 15. I have seen upon the earth.. 16. Come now, to the Court of Death.. 18. 1 behold ancient graves.. Epilogue 19. Wouldst thou look upon me in my grave?. .. La fabbrica illuminata Luigi Nono 17:25 per soprano e nastro magnetic0 a quattro piste Selected Bibliography Sources are in English unless otherwise specified. ITALIAN COMPOSERS (general, multiple) Basso, Alberto, ed. Dizionario. La Musica, edited by Guido M. Gatti, Vol. 11, L-Z. Turin: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1968. In Italian. Similar format to Baker's: includes brief biographical information and worhfor composers and performers, Italian and non-Italian. Coffin, Berton. Singer's Repertoire, Part I: Coloratura Soprano Lyric Soprano and Dramatic Soprano, 2d ed. New York: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1960. Includes mention of songs by Buzzi-Peccia, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Pizzetti, Respighi, etc. Cresti, Renzo. Ipiu importanti compositori italiani dagli inizi del Novecento a oggi. http://www.renzocresti.it/autori.html. (Accessed at numerous points during 2007.) In Italian. This noted musicologist provides information on the musical swles and lives of 58 Italian composers. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 1-15. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Societh Grafica Romana, 1960-1972. In Italian. Exclusively about Italians. Similar type of content and layout to Grove but also covers fields other than music (poets, etc.). Biographical information, Works lists, Bibliography. Diziotzario Ricordi della musica e dei musicisti. Milan: Ricordi, 1959. In Italian. Useful biographical information. Extensive lists ofworks. Emmons, Shirlee and Stanley Sonntag. The Art of the Song Recital. NY: Schirmer Books, 1979. Twentieth-century Italian composers are included in the teacher-student chart and works lists.