Le parole della musica. Letteratura e musica nel Novecento italiano

Abstract

This study investigates the most significant aspects of the relation between literary and musical culture during the first three decades of the 20th century through the filter of the original reviews by the musical critic Bruno Barilli, with a special attention to the negative reviews dedicated to concerts and compositions by the composer Alfredo Casella. The study is widened by the investigation of the debate on tradition-innovation about the musical and artistic field appeared on the following literary reviews: “Voce”, “Ronda”, “Lacerba” and “Ars Nova”. The study proposes even the investigation of the relation between music and poetry through the analysis of poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti that Ildebrando Pizzetti set to music and it deepens this relation investigating the correspondence between Ungaretti, Pizzetti and their friend Giuseppe de Robertis.