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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Musical Examples
Note on Sources
Translator’s Note
Preface
Introduction: Where These Conversations Come from
Chapter 1. A Pact Made with Mephisto: Over a Game of Chess
Chapter 2. A Composer Lent to Cinema
On Arranging
The Beginnings in Cinema
Paying My Dues
Luciano Salce
Sergio Leone and The Dollar Trilogy
A Fistful of Dollars: Myth and Reality
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Hawks and the Sparrows and a Strange Poem
Teorema and an Unrealized Story
Surrendering to Pasolini
Collaborations, Experiments, and Professional Consolidation
Pontecorvo, De Seta, Bellocchio
Bolognini, Montaldo
Wertmüller, Bertolucci
Consensus or Consumption? 1968 and Once Upon a Time in the West
Duck, You Sucker
Elio Petri
Sergio the Producer
Once Upon a Time in America
The “Leningrad Project” and Leone’s Death
Chapter 3. Music and Images
Reflections and Memories of a Film Music Composer
No Theme? More Fun!
Giuseppe Tornatore
Singers and Songs in Film: On Music’s Adaptability
Quentin Tarantino
Temporality and the “EST” Principle
Backward Path to the Beginnings in Hollywood
The Academy Honorary Award
The Beginnings in US Cinema
A House in the United States?
US Composers
Terrence Malick
The Interpreter Didn’t Help with John Carpenter
Creativity and Constraints: The Double Aesthetics
On Theater, the Musical, and Television
The Betrothed
Moses, the Lawgiver
Marco Polo
Secret of the Sahara
The Octopus
Pains and Experiments
Roberto Faenza
Nino Rota
Difficult Relationships
Joanou, Stone, and the Overtones
Warren Beatty
Pride and Repentance
Fights and Arguments
Beyond Cinema, Beyond Music
Chapter 4. Mystery and Craftsmanship
The Mystery of Creation
What Is Music?
Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Music
In Search of Myself: How to Listen to Contemporary Music
My Way
A Dilated Present
Studying Music Today?
A Sophisticated Balance between the Predictable and the Unforeseeable
Digressions
Cinema’s Transformations
Timbre, Sound, and Performers
On Teaching
High Productivity? A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
Chapter 5. An Absolute Music?
The Roots
A Short Introduction to the “Absolute”
Darmstadt: A Summer of Experiments
Gruppo d’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza
A Response to the Conflict of Times: Toward “Dynamic Immobility”
Suoni per Dino
Vidi Aquam. Id Est Benacum
Musical Creationism versus Musical Evolutionism
Gestazione
Beliefs: The Origins of Life and the Universe
Mystical Production
Missa Papae Francisci
The Ideal of Unity: Blend and Hope
The Mission
Voci dal silenzio and La voce dei sommersi
Cantata per l’Europa and a Poem for Maria
Exchanges, Form, and Linguistic Combinations
UT
The Four Concertos: Form and Non-form
The Future of Music: Noise and Silence
Chapter 6. Looking Ahead: A Silent Nod toward the Future
Chronological List of the Absolute Music
Chronological List of the Applied Music
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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