Among their topics are hypercubes and the generalized Cohn cycle, the Fibonacci sequence as metric suspension in
Luigi Nono's Il Canto Sospeso, one note samba: navigating notes and their meanings within modes and exo-modes, theoretical physics and category theory as tools for analyzing musical performance and composition, and examining fixed and relative similarity metrics through jazz melodies.
He also had close connections with several musicians of his time, including Alfredo Casella, Luigi Dallapiccola, and
Luigi Nono, among others (1).
In which artistic field was the Italian
Luigi Nono noteworthy?
Claudio Abbado, Festival di Sanremo, Italian folk revival, Roberto Leydi, Musica nel nostro tempo,
Luigi Nono, Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, L'Orchestra, Michele L Straniero
He discusses the idea of "German music"; the work of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Nikos Skalkottas,
Luigi Nono, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Gyorgy Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Alfred Schnittke, Hanz Werner Henze, and Wolfgang Rihm; the music of postmodern composers; multicultural phenomena in new music; nationalism and folklorism; principles of vocal composition; and the influence of Beethoven on the Schoenberg school.
Luigi Nono, as Maderna's pupil, saw the score at the time of its composition, and remembered how agile fugal writing runs throughout in large parts (
Luigi Nono, "Un'auto-biografia dell'autore raccontata da Enzo Restagno," in his Scritti e colloqui, eds Angela Ida De Benedictis and Veniero Rizzardi, 2 vols., La sfere, 35 [Milan: Ricordi; Lucca: LIM, 20011, 2:478).
David Danel will be performing
Luigi Nono's monumental piece for violin and electronics La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura at Prague's DOX contemporary art centre on 13 November.
Harvard and Yale educated, and living in Europe on grants to study with Elliott Carter, Luigi Dallapiccola, and
Luigi Nono, among others, the core members of MEV were trained at the peak of modernism.
A book that lived up to Suvini-Hand's subtitle would survey a good three dozen works, demonstrating a striking range of verbal and musical forms and styles, from the politically committed avant-gardism of
Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 (Venice, 1961) through the high modernist Ulisse to the quirky productions of Gian Francesco Malipiero and the conservative music dramas of Ildebrando Pizzetti.
The Future of Modern Music looks at dramatic recent changes in composition through biographical snapshots of composers such as Iannis Xenakis,
Luigi Nono, Julio Estrada and many more, over ninety total; each portrayal examines the new musical ideas that shaped the composer's works.