Luciano Berio

Sequenza III for female voicestudy 1

What we will be covering

Berio the composer

Italian Futurism

Background to the Sequenzas

Some score convertions

Performance with score

Cathy Berberian

Luciano Berio

Italian composerborn 1927died 2003 Contemporary with

Pierre BoulezKarlheinz Stockhausen

Mauricio Kagel

György Ligeti

Witold Lutosławski

Elliott Carter

Luciano Berio

Prolific

Highly individual

Lyrical

Varied output

Many vocal works

Many literary

influencesMany musical

influences

Cathy Berberian

American Mezzo Soprano

born 1925

died 1983

Married to Berio

1950 - 1964

Italian Futurism

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

TextHow is the order of the text to be interpreted?

give me

a truth

before night comes

for a woman

to build a house

a few words

allowing us

without worrying

to sing

give me

a truth

before night comes

for a woman

to build a house

a few words

allowing us

without worrying

to sing

The Sequenzas Sequenza I for flute (1958)

Sequenza II for harp (1963)

Sequenza III for female voice (1965)

Sequenza IV for piano (1966)

Sequenza V for trombone (1965)

Sequenza VI for viola (1967)

Sequenza VII for oboe (1969)

Sequenza VIII for violin (1976)

Sequenza IXa for clarinet (1980)

Sequenza IXb for alto saxophone (1981)

Sequenza X for trumpet in C and piano resonance (1984)

Sequenza XI for guitar (1987-88)

Sequenza XII for bassoon (1995)

Sequenza XIII for accordion (1995)

Sequenza XIVa for violoncello (2002)

Highly virtuosic

Written for specific

performers

Extended technique

A cycle of works for solo

instrument

Trends in notation circa 1960s

Xenakis Pithoprakta

Penderecki De natura sonoris

Cardew Treatise page 75

Cradew Treatise page 183

Berio Circles

Berio Circles

Luciano Berio

Sequenza III

for female voice