Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Autor: David S. Asbury

20th Century Neo-Romantic Serialism: The Opus 170 Greeting Cards of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Opus 170 Greeting Cards is a cycle of 51 pieces that span the last two decades of the composer’s life.  Intended as musical gifts for his friends and colleagues, he devised a system for assigning  each  note  in  the  alphabet  two  musical  counterparts  using ascending and descending chromatic scales and wrote works that derive their principal themes from the recipient’s name or names.  The Greeting Cards are scored for a variety of solo instrument and duo settings, 20 of which were written for the guitar and are the primary focus of this treatise that will have format consisting of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s biography, an overviewof Opus 170 andanexaminationofspecific works.

The opus 170 Greeting  Cards  offer  insight  into  the  stylistic  traits  that  characterize Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s music and historical perspective regarding many of the world’s leading musicians from the 1950’s and 1960’s.  Research for the treatise has included investigation of published and non-published materials, interviews with those recipients who are still living and musical analysis of the select representative works. Castelnuovo-Tedesco was one the most influential and important musicians of the 20thcentury.  His
legacy as a composer and teacher is one that has been largely overlooked in  modern  scholarship where  the  common  practice  of  atonal  serial composition dominated all other musical styles, especially in academic circles.

Castelnuovo-Tedesco always maintained tonal frameworks and a melodic lyricism in his music that in turn caused critics to dismiss him as being  unworthy  of  serious  consideration.  This  treatise,  through  the examination of one element of the composers work, seeks to help change a general  perception  that  his  style,  through  its  conservatism,  lacked currency and inventiveness. The Greeting Cards have to date not been studied collectively, leaving a formidable gap in our understanding of the compositional  mechanisms employed by this  influential and  important composer.

20th Century Neo-Romantic Serialism: The Opus 170 Greeting Cards of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

 

 


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