Dalmazio Santini (b. Capestrano, Abruzzo, Italy, 1923, d. Capestrano is a little town with 965 inhabitants (2001 in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fort Myers, Florida, October 4, 2001) was an Italian-born U. Fort Myers is the County seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. S. composer.
Born in Capestrano, in the Abruzzo province of Italy, Santini immigrated to the United States at the age of 14, where he attended public schools in White Plains, New York. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The City of White Plains is the County seat of Westchester County New York. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous He was inducted into the U. S. Armed Forces and served in World War II, eventually settling in Valhalla, New York. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Valhalla is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP located in the town of Mount Pleasant in Westchester County New York, Following the war, the G.I. Bill of Rights allowed him the opportunity to study composition at Manhattanville College and the Mannes College of Music. The GI Bill (officially titled Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 PL346 58 Statutes at Large 284 provided for college or vocational education for returning Manhattanville College is a private Coeducational Liberal arts college located in Purchase, New York, USA. Santini studied composition with Felix Salzer and Tadeusz Kassern, and conducting with Milton Forstat. Felix Salzer ( June 13, 1904 &ndash August 12, 1986) was an Austrian American music theorist, musicologist Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern ( March 19, 1904 – May 2, 1957) was a Polish composer
Santini developed a system of composition using 21-tone rows. This system is similar to the more familiar 12-tone system of serial composition, but the rows Santini used as the basis of his 21-tone compositions also include all alternative enharmonic spellings for each note in the chromatic scale (except the notes D, G, and A, which have no enharmonic spellings). Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony, especially in British usage twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold In Music, serialism is a technique for composition that uses sets to describe musical elements, and allows the manipulation of those Thus, the available tones for a 21-tone row would include B-sharp, C, C-sharp, D-flat, D, D-sharp, E-flat, E, F-flat, E-sharp, F, F-sharp, G-flat, G, G-sharp, A-flat, A, A-sharp, B-flat, B, and C-flat. In order to generate 21-tone rows, Santini utilized a specially printed deck of cards (each card representing one of the aforementioned pitches), "dealing" himself rows until he found the row or rows he wished to use as the basis for a particular composition.
Other of Santini's innovations include the use of circular notation (in his Continuum for accordion), as well as quarter tones (which he referred to as "quasi tones"). A quarter tone is an interval about half as wide (aurally or logarithmically as a Semitone, which is half a Whole tone. His 2+4,+ calls for inside-the-piano playing as well as other techniques so avant-garde as to approach the theatrical, reminiscent of a John Cage "happening. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> John Milton Cage Jr "
Many of Santini's other works are composed in a gentle, tonal, and more accessible style. Much of his output is for piano, and his numerous accordion works have been performed worldwide. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The accordion is a portable box-shaped Musical instrument of the hand-held Bellows -driven free-reed aerophone family sometimes referred to as a Squeezebox His most widely performed composition, Ave Maria, has been recorded by the duo of vocalist Mary Mancini and accordionist Mario Tacca.
Santini's many works for orchestra include The White Peaks of Forca and Canti Gabrieleschi. These works are also tonal, though modern in style, and draw on Santini's Italian heritage. His Canticum Angelicum was performed by the orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera San Carlo in Naples. Among his last works is a concerto for viola and orchestra, composed with the 21-tone system. The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family,
A devout Roman Catholic, much of Santini's output is sacred in nature, often with Latin texts. His Magnificat was selected for performance at the 1992 Incontri di Musica Sacra Contemporanea festival in Rome, Italy.
Santini's music was self-published by his own company, DelSan Publications. Upon his retirement in 1981, Santini moved to Cape Coral, in Southwest Florida, and died in nearby Fort Myers in 2001. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Cape Coral is a city in Lee County, Florida, United States. With over 400 miles of navigable waterways Cape Coral has more miles of canals than any Southwest Florida is a region of Florida, United States located along its gulf coast south of the Tampa Bay area, west of Lake Okeechobee and mostly north of
External links
- Dalmazio Santini page from New Music Jukebox site
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