Title: Cavalcanti
First published: 2003
Description: Cavalcanti: A Perspective on the Music of Ezra Pound
Essay and full music score in a first edition of 200

The three-act one hour opera is a dramatization of the life of the Florentine poet Guido Cavalcanti (1250-1300), friend of Dante, through eleven of his canzone and ballate. Two additional numbers are settings of poems in Provençal by Sordello.

Double volume
Part I. A systematic analysis of Pound's music training, the application of his musico-poetic theories, methods of composition, and a music analysis of the opera; the genesis and sources of Pound's Great Bass theory.

Part II. The definitive performance edition of Pound's "Cavalcanti," drawn from the uncatalogued and dispersed music manuscripts in the Beinecke Manuscript and Rare Book Library (Yale University). This is the full music score with piano reduction and stage instructions. All music is composed by Ezra Pound. Additional narrator's script, dialogue, and stage instructions are by Pound; editorial notes by Robert Hughes.
Subjects: Ezra Pound, modernism, modernist opera, opera, twentieth-century opera, words and music, Guido Cavalcanti, poet-composer
Places: Florence, Sarzana
People: Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Time periods: 1300