Music of Luigi Nono

The course will yield an overview of the music
and the cultural contributions of the great
Italian composer Luigi Nono. Our survey of his
oeuvre and its evolution from his early works in
the 1950's (with the amazing purity of his
dodecaphonic counterpoint) through his strident
statements in the 1960's and early 1970's to the
reduction and radical beauty of his late style
during the 1980's will include an appreciation of
his intense human voice, the critical idealism of
his political engagement, and the artistic
mastery and expressive power of his vocal,
instrumental, and electronic writing.