TY - BOOK ID - 80818515 TI - Luigi Dallapiccola and musical modernism in Fascist Italy PY - 2013 SN - 9781139033329 9780521844031 9781107416383 1107416388 1139033328 9781107419100 1107419107 9781107420366 1107420369 0521844037 1107423732 1139890212 1107421780 1107417767 110874656X 1299842054 PB - Cambridge New York DB - UniCat KW - Opera KW - Choral music KW - Fascism and music KW - Music and fascism KW - Music KW - Choruses KW - Choruses, Sacred KW - Choruses, Secular KW - Music, Choral KW - Sacred choral music KW - Secular choral music KW - Church music KW - Vocal music KW - History and criticism KW - Dallapiccola, Luigi, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80818515 AB - 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 siècle to the early Cold War. ER -