Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004), one of the most inventive composers of his generation, created a musical language that draws inspiration from a multifaceted array of sources, including the technological landscape of daily life, the visual arts, poetry, literature, and philosophy. Furthermore, from early in his career, Romitelli incorporated elements in his music from many styles and genres, including from what are often separated as art-music and popular music. This dissertation analyzes the first movement of Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip as a demonstrative example of the unification of the composer’s musical philosophy and compositional aesthetic. A comparative study of the composer’s known poetic sources—namely the writings and drawings of Henri Michaux, the self-portraits from the 1970s by Francis Bacon, and the work of visual artist Gianluca Lerici (a.k.a. Prof. Bad Trip)—is conducted in order to understand the ways in which these creators’ works shaped Romitelli’s music, especially in the temporal domain. The final section of the dissertation is dedicated to an analysis of the formal and rhythmic structures of Professor Bad Trip: Lesson I and the ways in which musical cells are mutated during the developmental section of the piece.

Creator

• Arrellin, Mathew

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-87v9-6z30

Subject

• Music theory
• Musical composition

Language

• en

Alternate Identifier

• http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16376
• etdadmin_upload_947312

Keyword

• Analysis
• Music
• Romitelli

Date created

• 2022-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright