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Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone’s position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame as the creator of some 500 film scores and hundreds more arrangements for commercial recordings; however, Sciannameo argues that Morricone’s legacy must include his concert works, a catalogued list of more than 100 titles. By analyzing the composer’s formative years as a music practitioner and his transition into the world of composing for the screen, Franco Sciannameo reconsiders the best of Morricone’s popular compositions and reveals the challenging concert works which have been an intimate expression of Morricone’s lifelong creative season. Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone explores Morricone’s legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on posterity.
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone: Fame and Legacy provides new contextualized perspectives on Ennio Morricone’s position as a radical composer working at the cutting edge of music within the frame work of his cinematic compositions. The Italian composer has reached world fame as the creator of some 500 film scores and hundreds more arrangements for commercial recordings; however, Sciannameo argues that Morricone’s legacy must include his concert works, a catalogued list of more than 100 titles. By analyzing the composer’s formative years as a music practitioner and his transition into the world of composing for the screen, Franco Sciannameo reconsiders the best of Morricone’s popular compositions and reveals the challenging concert works which have been an intimate expression of Morricone’s lifelong creative season. Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone explores Morricone’s legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on posterity.
Chapter One: In the Open City
Chapter Two: Once Upon a Time Babylon
Chapter Three: In the Lion’s Den
Chapter Four: Toward a New Consonance
Chapter Five: Scoring Social Justice
Chapter Six: Legacy
Franco Sciannameo is College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music in the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University.
Here, writer and lecturer Franco Sciannameo. . . provides a
comprehensive examination of Morricone's lifetime of musical
composition. . . it's not a long book but it is quite comprehensive
in its treatment and is both newly educational and further
inspiring to one's regard of the famous composer. . . . The book is
thus an intriguing read--and indeed serves as an essential and
comprehensive examination of the fame and legacy of this singular,
unique, and multifaceted composer.
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone has the unique
distinction of being published just before the death of the
esteemed Morricone (1928-2020), who is famous as a cinematic
composer. Sciannameo (music, Carnegie Mellon Univ.) developed the
book through conversations with the late Sergio Miceli, who was an
Italian scholar of film music in his own right. Sciannameo covers
Morricone's life from his early days through his retirement in
2019. There is discussion of many of Morricone's best-known works,
including both the Once upon a Time... and La Cage aux Folles
trilogies, and of his experimental electronic music. Of particular
interest to some will be the last chapter, in which Sciannameo
picks up the debate about the value of concert music for a composer
who was so well received as a Hollywood film musician. With more
than 500 scores to his credit, Morricone has interesting works in
both genres, and this book introduces the reader to some of the
composer's less-known works. Summing Up: Recommended.
Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
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