Nino Rota, Federico Fellini, and the Making of an Italian Cinematic Folk Opera Amarcord: No. 119 (Studies in the History & Interpretation of Music S.) - Hardcover
Synopsis
Sciannameo (fine arts, Carnegie Mellon U.) presents functional and cultural analysis of the music Rota used to underscore Fellini's 1974 film Amarcord : three main original compositions, and an array of popular and patriotic music fashionable in Italy during the 1930s, in a film about remembering episodes that occurred during Fellini's youth in the town of Rimini on the Northern Adriatic coast. Though the composer and director collaborated on several films, he focuses on Amarcord not only because it represents their collaboration more fully than others, but also because it combines elements common to a folk opera, that is, stories or episodes drawn from a people's culture with song and dance typical to their everyday life. Only names are indexed. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Review
"The story of Nino Rota and Federico Fellini may well come to be understood as the model for the future of classical composers and their music, rather than as a glamorous anomaly. A composer trained in the most serene temples of classicized art, Rota never lost his way with a great tune or set aside his touch with a popular texture. While his muse may have become the cinema, mediated best through his thirty year association with Fellini, his oeuvre spans all forms of concert music and he remained resolutely and securely in the conservatory world. Franco Sciannameo tells this story gracefully and with charming erudition. He weaves disparate elements of an extremely useful and evocative scenic synopsis of the music of Amarcord, a comprehensive bibliography, a profile of the composer, a table of Rota's works throughout the Fellini period, and even a lagniappe of some delightful but previously unknown bell music by Rota, connecting all by means of a discerning investigation of how Rota and Fellini together found an ideal synthesis of music and film, seen through the lens of one of their greatest collaborations, Amarcord. Sciannameo's translation of Fellini's eulogy to Rota is a particularly touching, and telling, inclusion... The lover of music will find much to think about in this monograph and the lover of film will be delighted throughout. In presenting what Fellini called "the miracles of Nino Rota," Sciannameo succeeds in conveying a deep feeling of tenderness as well." - (from the Foreword) Alan Fletcher, Professor and Head, School of Music, Carnegie Mellon University"
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