Giacinto Scelsi: Music across the Borders

Federico Celestini (ed)

Pages: 448 p.
Size:220 x 280 mm
Illustrations:3 b/w, 30 musical examples

Language(s):English, French, German
Publication Year:2019

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This volume proposes new approaches to Scelsi's musical works.

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BIO

Federico Celestini is Professor for Musicology and Head of the Music Department at the University of Innsbruck. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and President of the Austrian Society of Musicology. His publications include books on Haydn’s Piano Sonatas, on Viennese Modernism and on Nietzsche’s music philosophy. Celestini is Co-Editor of Acta Musicologica

Summary

The work of the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) brings a special urgency to the main questions of musical thought. These questions concern subjectivity in composition and music making; the relationship between sound, structure, and form; the relationship between improvisation and composition; and the role of musical writing in terms of composition and performance. This is undoubtedly also the product of his complex working method, in which improvisation, composition, musical writing, and performance follow one another, each imposing their own, often divergent, mark on the end result. The opening of the Isabella Scelsi Foundation archive in Rome in 2009 highlighted the significance of the composer while facilitating new research perspectives on his work. Now is the right time for a larger publication to document and propagate recent results and new approaches.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Federico Celestini, Preface
Federico Celestini, Introducing Giacinto Scelsi

Genesis, Analysis and Performance
Sandro Marrocu, Il compositore fu una cooperativa. Riﬂessioni su un processo creativo
Christian Utz, Analyzing Scelsi
Elisabetta Piras, Essere per interpretare, interpretare per essere: prospettive esecutive della musica di Giacinto Scelsi

Works
Andrea Di Giacomo, Molti pezzi su 88 tasti. Indagine su un catalogo pianistico costruito a posteriori
Ian Dickson, Small Ensemble and Solo Instrumental Works
Francesca Placanica, Ritual and Embodiment in Giacinto Scelsi’s Solo Works for Voice: A Performance Studies Approach
Alessandro Cecchi, Giacinto Scelsi compositore di quartetti per archi: un approccio discorsivo
Friedrich Jaecker, Works for Orchestra and Chorus

Reception
Alessandra Montali, La ricezione scelsiana in ambito musicologico, interpretativo e compositivo
Pierre Albert Castanet, Giacinto Scelsi et la France: Le champ des nébuleuses
Markus Bandur, Vom «Innern des Tones» und «sakralen Sehnsüchten». Zur Rezeption von Giacinto Scelsis Musik in Deutschland
Thomas Peattie, Giacinto Scelsi in the USA and in the UK
Elfriede Reissig, Scelsi in Austria

Resources
Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini, «Do Not Diminish the Sense Which You Do Not Understand»: Giacinto Scelsi’s Archive, Library, Museum
Friedrich Jaecker, Catalogue of the Works of Giacinto Scelsi

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