| dc.description.abstract | Elżbieta Zarych presented the Italian writer and musicologist’s famous monologue in the
context of his other literary and theoretical books, literary and musical works that served
as his inspiration, as well as, contemporary pieces which deal with the same topic. The
author of the dissertation, while considering the music and melody of Baricco, focused
on pieces that possess the two principal topics: ‘music’ and ‘sea.’ Baricco wrote ‘the sea is
the music’ and in the monologue Novecento they both are connected in the highest form.
The author presented the conception of Baricco who, in order to avoid classifying his
work into literary genres, wrote just ‘stories’ while connecting the literature, the music
and the painting into the ‘white music of a story’. She also presented Barrico’s concept of
real and ideal music in the context of his multi-level plot and the Novecento composition.
Furthermore, the author analyzed the jazz quintet accompaniment composition for the
Novecento monologue written for the Italian actor Eugenio Allegri, as well as, explored the
realized and unrealized ideas during the composition’s creation process. She attempted
to characterize the imagination of Baricco who, using his musical knowledge, tries to
concretize the plot of Novecento; the metaphors: ‘life is a navigation’, ‘a sea is a music’,
and ‘a story is a music and a sea’, as well as, describe the life of an ideal and genial
musician Danny Boodmann T. D. For Lemon Novecento, life is music and music
interprets reality. The author showed that for Baricco too, music is something real and
normal, and for this reason in Novecento he tells the story of real music – jazz, played in
real time on a real traveling ship. | en |
