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Abstract
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–75)—a pioneering figure as serialist, composer of protest music, and trailblazer for the avant-garde—wrote his Greek Lyrics song cycle (1942–5) as an escape from wartime anxiety. I locate the Lyrics within a nexus of technique, text setting, and ethical engagement. That complex resonated with the younger composers Berio, Nono, and Maderna, each responding in the postwar period with settings from the same collection, Quasimodo’s 1940 free translation of classic Greek lyrics. I examine Quasimodo’s ethics, placing his poetry and Dallapiccola’s settings within Gramsci’s notions of language and politics, which were highly influential on postwar Italian composers.
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Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–75), un pionnier du sérialisme et de l’avant-garde ainsi que compositeur de musique engagée, a composé son cycle de chants intitulé Liriche greche en 1942–45 afin d’échapper à l’anxiété de cette période de guerre. On propose d’examiner dans cette oeuvre la rencontre d’une technique, d’une mise en musique d’un texte, et d’un engagement éthique. Cet assemblage a en effet eu un impact sur les plus jeunes compositeurs Berio, Nono et Maderna, qui y ont chacun répondu dans l’après-guerre par leur propre mise en musique de la collection de traductions libres de poésies classiques grecques de Quasimodo (1940), à laquelle avait emprunté Dallapiccola. On y examine par conséquent l’éthique de Quasimodo en plaçant sa poésie et la mise en musique de Dallapiccola dans le cadre des notions de langage et de politiques de Gramsci, théories ayant eu un grand impact chez les compositeurs italiens de l’après-guerre.
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Biographical note
Jamuna Samuel (PhD, CUNY) is Mellon fellow and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania; she previously taught at Stony Brook University and Wellesley College as visiting assistant professor. Publications include those in Rivista di analisi e teoria musicale,Indiana Theory Review,Notes, and forthcoming essays on politics and musical technique in Singing in Signs (Decker and Shaftel, eds), and on listening in Italo Calvino’s writing. Her book-in-progress examines Luigi Dallapiccola’s influence on later composers.
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