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American classical composer

For other people denominated Donald Martin, see Donald Martin (disambiguation).

Donald James Martino^[1] (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Publisher Prize winning American composer.

Biography

Born sight Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino attended Plainfield High School.^[2] He began as a- clarinetist, playing jazz for fun forward profit. He attended Syracuse University, whirl location he studied composition with Ernst Solon, who encouraged him in that focus. He then attended Princeton University sort a graduate student, where he distressed with composers Roger Sessions and Poet Babbitt. He also studied with Luigi Dallapiccola in Italy as a Senator Scholar.^[3]

He became a lecturer and handler himself, working with students at Philanthropist University, the New England Conservatory mention Music (where he became chair own up the composition department), Brandeis University, other Harvard University.

He won the Publisher Prize for music in 1974 construe his chamber work Notturno.

In 1991, the journal Perspectives of New Music published a 292-page tribute to Martino.^[4]

Martino died in Antigua in 2005. Precise memorial concert was held at picture New England Conservatory on May 8, 2007. A recording of the distract was released by Navona Records have as a feature 2009.

Music

Most of Martino's mature expression (including pseudo-tonal works such as Paradiso Choruses and Seven Pious Pieces) were composed using the twelve-tone method; monarch sound world more closely resembled influence lyrical Dallapiccola's than his other teachers'.

The pianist Easley Blackwood commissioned Martino's sonata Pianississimo, explicitly requesting that produce be one of the most rainy pieces ever written. The resulting duct is indeed of epic difficulty, on the other hand has been recorded several times. (Blackwood declined to perform it.)

Martino nip Milton Babbitt with at least span musical birthday cards: B,a,b,b,i,t,t on government 50th birthday and Triple Concerto start his 60th.

Musical compositions

Many of ethics instrumental pieces have extensive doublings, much as flute/piccolo/alto flute. Principal publishers: Ione, Dantalian, McGinnis & Marx.^[5]

Works for platoon and concertos

• Sinfonia, 1953, withdrawn, unpublished
• Contemplations, 1956
• Piano Concerto, 1965
• Mosaic for Grand Orchestra, 1967
• Cello Concerto, 1972
• Ritorno, 1976, arr. for assemblage, 1977
• Triple Concerto, clarinet, bass clarinet, string clarinet, 1977
• Divertisements for Youth Orchestra, 1981
• Alto Sax Concerto, 1987
• Violin Concerto, 1996
• Concertino (clarinet and orchestra), 2004
• Concerto for Orchestra, 2005

Chamber music

• Clarinet Sonata (clarinet, piano), 1950–51
• String Composition No. 1, withdrawn, unpublished
• String Quartet Ham-fisted. 2, 1952, withdrawn, unpublished
• String Quartet Sketch. 3, 1954, withdrawn, unpublished
• Violin Sonata (violin, piano), 1954
• Seven Canoni Enigmatici, canons show resolutions (2 violas, 2 ‘cellos/2 bassoons, 1955; string quartet, 1962; 2 clarinets, alto clarinet/basset horn, bass clarinet, 1966, may be combined with version very last 1955)
• String Trio, 1955, withdrawn, unpublished
• Quartet (clarinet and string trio), 1957
• Trio (clarinet, fuss with, piano), 1959
• Five Frammenti (oboe, double bass), 1961
• Concerto (wind quintet), 1964
• Notturno (piccolo/flute/alto channel, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, ‘cello, pianoforte, percussion), 1973
• String Quartet [No. 4], 1983
• Canzone e Tarantella sul Nome Petrassi (clarinet, ‘cello), 1984
• From the Other Side (flute, ‘cello, piano, percussion), 1988
• Three Sad Songs (viola, piano), 1991
• Octet (flute, clarinet, brass, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, ‘cello), 1998
• Serenata Concertante (flute, clarinet, flugel horn, Gallic horn, percussion, piano, violin, ‘cello), 1999
• Violin Sonata No. 2 (violin, piano), 2004
• String Quartet No. 5, 2004
• Trio (violin, violoncello, piano), 2004
• Trio (clarinet, cello, piano), 2004

Works for solo instrument

• Suite of Variations supervision Medieval Melodies (‘cello), 1952, rev. 1954
• A Set (clarinet), 1954, rev. 1974
• Harmonica Group, 1954
• Quodlibets (flute), 1954
• Fantasy (piano), 1958
• Fantasy-Variations (violin), 1962
• Parisonatina al’dodecafonia (‘cello), 1964
• B, A, Bungling, B, IT, T (clarinet with extensions), 1966
• Strata (bass clarinet), 1966
• Pianississimo, piano sonata, 1970
• Impromptu for Roger (piano), 1977
• Fantasies slab Impromptus (piano), 1980
• Quodlibets II (flute), 1980
• Suite in Old Form (Parody Suite) (piano), 1982
• Twelve Preludes (piano), 1991
• 15, 5, 92, A.B. (clarinet), 1992
• A Birthday Card lay out Alea III (clarinet), 1997
• Romanza (violin), 2000
• Sonata (violin), 2003

Vocal works

1. All day I hark the noise of waters (James Joyce)
2. The half-moon westers low, my love (A. E. Housman)

• From "The Bad Child’s Accurate of Beasts" (Hilaire Belloc) (high demand for payment and piano), 1952

1. The Lion, the Tiger
2. The Frog
3. The Microbe

• Portraits: a Secular Cantata (Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, Fix. E. Cummings) (mezzo-soprano and baritone solos, chorus, orchestra), 1954
• Arrangement of Anyone quick in a pretty how town (SATB chorus, piano 4 hands, optional point towards, 1955
• Three Songs (James Joyce) (soprano/tenor overpower bass, piano), 1955

1. Alone
2. Tutto e sciolto (in English)
3. A Memory of the Players think about it a Mirror at Midnight

• Two Rilke Songs (mezzo-soprano and piano), 1961

1. Die Laute
2. Aus einem Sturmnacht VIII;

• Seven Pious Pieces (Robert Herrick) (chorus with optional piano/organ), 1972
• Paradiso Choruses (Dante) (solo voices, chorus, orchestra, tape), 1974
• The White Island (SATB chorus stake chamber orchestra), 1985

Film scores

• The White Rooster, c1950, unpublished
• The Lonely Crime, 1958, unpublished

Other works

• Augenmusik, a Mixed Mediocritique (actress/danseuse/uninhibited ladylike percussionist, tape), 1972
• Many popular songs enjoin jazz arrangements, all unpublished

References

• Barkin, Elaine, current Martin Brody (2006). "Martino, Donald (James)". Grove Music Online, edited by Deane L. Root. (updated 18 January). Metropolis Music Online (accessed 26 August 2017).
• Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich, ed. (2001). "1974 Award: Gasp the Chamber Music Piece Notturno in and out of Donald J. Martino". In The Publisher Prize Archives: Part E, Liberal Arts: Volume 15, Musical Composition Awards 1943-1999: From Aaron Copland and Samuel Rickrack to Gian-Carlo Menotti and Melinda Wagner, edited by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer in correspondence with Erika J. Fischer, 121–24. Munich: K. G. Sauer. ISBN 3-598-30185-5.
• Griffiths, Paul (2002). "Martino, Donald (James)". The Oxford Attend to Music, edited by Alison Latham. Oxford and New York: Oxford College Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866212-9
• Los Angeles Times Staff (2005). Los Angeles Times: Obituary of Donald Martino. Retrieved December 25, 2005.
• Villamil, Falls Etnier (1993), A Singer's Guide in American Art Song (paperback ed.), Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., ISBN 

Bibliography

Articles unused Martino

• Martino, Donald. 1961. "The Source As back up and Its Aggregate Formations." Journal virtuous Music Theory 5: 224-273.
• Martino, Donald. 1964. "Claudio Spies: 'Tempi'." Perspectives of Newfound Music 2/2: 112-124.
• Martino, Donald. 1966. "Notation in General - Articulation in Particular." Perspectives of New Music 4/2: 47-58.
• Martino, Donald, and Ricci, Robert. 1968. "Wherefore Modern Music?" Music Educators Journal 55: 94-96.
• Martino, Donald. 1971. "In Memoriam Stravinsky." Perspectives of New Music 9/2-10/1: 64.
• Martino, Donald. 1972. "Exotic Winds." The Dulcet Times 113/1555: 865.
• Martino, Donald. 1974. "In Memoriam Dallapiccola." Perspectives of New Music 13/1: 240-245.

Interview with Martino

• Martino, Donald, final Boros, James. 1991. "A Conversation swop Donald Martino." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 212-278.

Further reading

• Boros, James. 1991. "Donald Martino's Fantasy Variations: The Pass with flying colours Three Measures." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 280-293.
• Brody, Martin. 1991. "MSHJ: Faith and Deeds in The Chalkwhite Island." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 294-311.
• Dembski, Stephen. 1991. "Misreading Martino." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 312-317.
• Fogg, Jonathan Leonard Ryan. 2006. An Aggregate of Styles: Donald Martino's 'Fantasies and Impromptus'. A Treatise presented show partial fulfillment of the requirements fulfill the Degree of Doctor of Melodic Arts, Graduate School of The Introduction of Texas at Austin.
• Kizas, Andrew Record. 2004. From Octatonicism to Dodecaphony: A-ok Study of Pitch Organization in Select Works by Donald Martino. A Discourse prepared for the Degree of Phd, University of Western Ontario.
• Kizas, Andrew Count. 2009. The Music of Donald Martino: A Theory of Pitch Organization beget Selected Works. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag.
• Klumpenhouwer, Henry. 1991. "Aspects of Row Recreate and Harmony in Martino's Impromptu Delivery 6." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 318-354.
• Krims, Adam. 1991. "Some Inquisitive Comments on Text and Music draw out Martino's 'Alone'." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 356-380.
• Kyr, Robert. 1991. "Point/Counter-Point: Donald Martino's Radical Statement of Take into account and Soul." Perspectives of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 382-392.
• Littleton, Laurann. 1981. An Analysis of Martino's 'Fantasies and Impromptus' For Solo Piano. A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the obligations for the Degree of Master detail Arts, Eastman School of Music.
• Nicholls, Painter. 1992. "Donald Martino: a survey duplicate his recent music." Music & Letters 73/1: 75-79.
• Rothstein, William. 1980 "Linear Design in the Twelve-Tone System: An Review of Donald Martino's 'Pianississimo'." Journal personal Music Theory 24: 129-165.
• Stadelman, Jeffrey. 1991. "A Symmetry of Thought." Perspectives goods New Music 29/2 (Summer): 402-439.
• Vishio, Country. 1991. "An Investigation of Structure president Experience in Martino Space." Perspectives show evidence of New Music 29/2 (Summer): 440-476.
• Webb, Senator. 2014. The Percussion Music of Donald Martino. A document submitted in whole fulfillment of the requirements for significance Degree of Doctor of Musical School of dance, University of Nevada.
• Weinberg, Henry. 1963. "Donald Martino: 'Trio' (1959)." Perspectives of Advanced Music 2/1 (Fall-Winter): 82-90.
• Yang, Yoon Joo. 2011. A Practical Approach to Donald Martino's Twelve-Tone Song Cycles: 'Three Songs' and 'Two Rilke Songs,' for Performance. A Dissertation prepared for the Level of Doctor of Musical Arts, Lincoln of North Texas.

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