Download or read book Berio s Sequenzas written by Janet K. Halfyard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio wrote fourteen pieces entitled Sequenza, along with several versions of the same work for different instruments, revisions of the original pieces and also the parallel Chemins series, where one of the Sequenzas is used as the basis for a new composition on a larger scale. The Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century - a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilities of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demands of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre. The Sequenzas have significantly influenced the development of composition for solo instruments and voice, and there is no comparable series of works in the output of any other composer. Series of pieces tend to be linked by the instruments for which the composer writes, but this is a series in which the pieces are linked instead by the variety of instruments for which Berio composed. The varied approaches taken by the contributors in discussing the pieces demonstrate the richness of this repertoire and the many levels on which Berio and these landmark compositions can be considered. Contributions are arranged under three main headings: Performance Issues; Berio's Compositional Process and Aesthetics; and Analytical Approaches.
Download or read book Berio s Sequenzas written by Janet K. Halfyard and published by . This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio wrote fourteen pieces entitled Sequenza, along with several versions of the same work for different instruments, revisions of the original pieces and also the parallel Chemins series, where one of the Sequenzas is used as the basis for a new composition on a larger scale. The Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century - a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilities of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demands of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre. The Sequenzas have significantly influenced the development of composition for solo instruments and voice, and there is no comparable series of works in the output of any other composer. Series of pieces tend to be linked by the instruments for which the composer writes, but this is a series in which the pieces are linked instead by the variety of instruments for which Berio composed. The varied approaches taken by the contributors in discussing the pieces demonstrate the richness of this repertoire and the many levels on which Berio and these landmark compositions can be considered. Contributions are arranged under three main headings: Performance Issues; Berio's Compositional Process and Aesthetics; and Analytical Approaches."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Berio s Sequenzas written by JanetK. Halfyard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1958 and 2002, Luciano Berio wrote fourteen pieces entitled Sequenza, along with several versions of the same work for different instruments, revisions of the original pieces and also the parallel Chemins series, where one of the Sequenzas is used as the basis for a new composition on a larger scale. The Sequenza series is one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century - a collection of virtuoso pieces that explores the capabilities of a solo instrument and its player, making extreme technical demands of the performer whilst developing the musical vocabulary of the instrument in compositions so assured and so distinctive that each piece both initiates and potentially exhausts the repertoire of a new genre. The Sequenzas have significantly influenced the development of composition for solo instruments and voice, and there is no comparable series of works in the output of any other composer. Series of pieces tend to be linked by the instruments for which the composer writes, but this is a series in which the pieces are linked instead by the variety of instruments for which Berio composed. The varied approaches taken by the contributors in discussing the pieces demonstrate the richness of this repertoire and the many levels on which Berio and these landmark compositions can be considered. Contributions are arranged under three main headings: Performance Issues; Berio's Compositional Process and Aesthetics; and Analytical Approaches.
Download or read book An Analysis and Performance Guide of Luciano Berio s Sequenza IX written by Jiyeon Lim and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berio’s Sequenza IX is one of the most well-known and influential compositions in the contemporary repertoire for clarinetists. Indeed, many prominent competitions require clarinetists to play it. For example, Berio’s Sequenza IX appeared as a second-round repertoire selection in the 2019 Nielsen Competition. Although I had avoided contemporary music (like most of performers) because of its difficulty, I became fascinated by Berio’s Sequenza IX when I had to listen and study the piece in preparation for the Nielsen Competition. During my study of the piece, the history of the Sequenza series – the fact that Berio wrote Sequenza IX as part of a series for all kinds of instruments – and the difference between Berio’s music and the repertoire that I typically played piqued my interest. This treatise provides an analysis of and performance guide for Luciano Berio’s Sequenza IX (1980). I first outline the compositional history of the work. I then contextualize the piece in relation to Berio’s electronic music and experience at IRCAM; in particular, I explore how the relationships between the electronic and clarinet parts in Chemins V were transferred to Sequenza IX. I analyze the pitch content, phrase structure, and form of the piece. And, lastly, based on my analysis, I provide a performance guide to help performers play Berio’s Sequenza IX. Numerous factors – its complex harmonic language, fragmented melodies, unclear phrasing, un-notated meter, and extended techniques – make Sequenza IX one of the most difficult modern works for solo clarinet. My research will help performers understand the details and structure of the piece so that they can have more direction and efficiency in their practice of the piece
Download or read book Transformations of Musical Modernism written by Erling E. Guldbrandsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.
Download or read book Analyses of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Music 1940 2000 written by D. J. Hoek and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.
Download or read book Berio written by David Osmond-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berio is one of the most widely performed and prodigiously productive of post-war composers. This book is nevertheless the first survey in any language of his work as a whole. Commentators on Berio's work have tended to concentrate on those aspects of his music that have strong extra-musical associations such as his use of words, sense of theatre, and interest in linguistics. While incorporating all of these, this account seeks to rectify the balance by focusing on the purely musical basis of Berio's work. Its chapters cover such areas as the basis of his musical language, his involvement with Darmstadt, his work with computers at IRCAM and Tempo Reale, the importance of folk music, and his theatre works. This book includes a complete list of works up to 1989, with details of his first performances and instrumentation, and a select bibliography.
Download or read book A Sound Mind written by Paul Morley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music. Paul Morley made his name as a journalist covering the rock and pop of the 1970s and 1980s. But as his career progressed, he found himself drawn toward developing technologies, streaming platforms, and, increasingly, the music from the past that streaming services now made available. Suddenly able to access every piece Mozart or Bach had ever written and to curate playlists that worked with these musicians' themes across different performers, composers, and eras, he began to understand classical music in a whole new way and to believe that it was music at its most dramatic and revealing. In A Sound Mind, Morley takes readers along on his journey into the history and future of classical music. His descriptions, explanations, and guidance make this seemingly arcane genre more friendly to listeners and show the music's power, depth, and timeless beauty. In Morley's capable hands, the history of the classical genre is shown to be the history of all music, with these long-ago pieces influencing everyone from jazz greats to punk rockers and the pop musicians of today.
Download or read book All Music Guide to Classical Music written by Chris Woodstra and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.
Download or read book Luciano Berio s Sequenza VII written by Nicole E. Strum and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Existing analyses of Sequenza VII's form rely on the aggregate-completing pitch of a fixed-register pitch series to outline the climactic area of the piece and to help define the traditional formal archetype of build-up - climax - resolution. The occurrence of the climax at approximately the golden mean divides the piece into two main sections that are temporally proportionally balanced. This singular formal conception, based on a traditional archetype, while satisfying and useful in some respects, does not reveal everything about the piece's form: most importantly, it is not able to address significant formal aspects that situate Sequenza VII more clearly in a postmodern context. The overriding aspect to which I refer is temporality, or rather, the multivalence of temporal organizations present in this piece, a concept that is characteristic of postmodern musical works. Berio himself has pointed to this idea; he has said, " ... I will never be able to conceive ... to attempt a time conception in a 'univocal' way. There are always different phases that are important." In this document, I show that Sequenza VII exhibits multiple simultaneous temporal organizations that may individually be linear, partially linear, or spatial. These simultaneous temporal organizations allow for the presence of different temporal "phases," to use Berio's term: at certain moments a particular temporal organization may rise to the surface or become more prominent, depending on a performer's interpretation and/or a listener's perspective. The possibility that temporal structure can reside within the listener is a trait of many postmodern musical works, and comes into play here especially with respect to a spatial interpretation of form. Further, the different temporal organizations are unified by particular salient pitches whose multiple functions permit relationships to form between the temporal layers. This multivalent interpretation of temporality and form not only justifies Berio's claim that for him it is impossible to conceive of time in a univocal way, but also reinforces Sequenza VII's important place in the postmodern musical repertoire. My original analysis draws on Judith Lochhead's phenomenological approach to temporal structures, Jonathan Kramer's study of conceptions of time in music, and Joshua Mailman's work on "temporal dynamic form." My analysis is further supported by a comparison of timings gathered from recordings of the piece and graphic representations of particular temporal and formal ideas. This application of the golden mean in an analysis of Sequenza VII is not original to me; Leclair, Alessandrini, Stoianova, Osmond-Smith and others have long pointed this out."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Download or read book Danny Elfman s Batman written by Janet K. Halfyard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny Elfman is recognized as one of the most successful, interesting, and innovative figures in recent film music composition. He came to the fore in the late 1980s in connection with his collaboration with Tim Burton on his films including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare before Christmas (1993), and Sleepy Hollow (1999). In addition to this, Elfman has composed music for more than 40 other films, including Somersby (1993), Dolores Claibourne (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Men in Black (1997), and Spiderman (2002). Beetlejuice was the first mainstream commercial success of the collaboration, but Batman was the film which marked Tim Burton's arrival as a major figure in Hollywood film direction, and equally established Danny Elfman as a film score composer, particularly in relation to action and fantasy genres. The score for Batman won a Grammy in 1989 and is an outstanding example of his collaboration with Burton as well as admirably demonstrating his particular talents and distinctive compositional voice. In particular, it displays the characteristic "darkness" of his orchestration in this genre and the means he uses to create a full length film score from what is often a relatively small amount of musical material, in this case the famous Batman theme. This book examines Elfman's scoring technique and provides a detailed analysis and commentary on the Batman score. The film is discussed in the context of its comic-book origins and the fantasy-action genre, setting it and its score against the late 1970s and early 1980s equivalents such as Star Wars and Superman, and revealing how Burton and Elfman between them changed the cinematic idea of what a superhero is. The book also explores Elfman's musical background, his place within the film music industry and the controversy that sprang up following the release of B
Download or read book The Sonic Self written by Naomi Cumming and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Classical violin music as her principal laboratory, the author examines how a performance incorporates distinctive features not only of the work but of the performer as well--and how the listener goes about interpreting not only the composer's work and the performer's rendering of the work, but the performer's and listener's identities as well. A richly interdisciplinary approach to a very common, yet persistently mysterious, part of our lives.
Download or read book The Structuring of Sequenza Per Flauto Solo by Luciano Berio written by Barbara A. Eberhart and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering the Future written by Luciano Berio and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares with us some musical experiences that 'invite us to revise or suspend our relation with the past and to rediscover it as part of a future trajectory'. This title provides insights on Luciano Berio's own compositions. It explores themes, such as transcription and translation, poetics and analysis, 'open work', and music theatre.
Download or read book Grock King of Clowns written by Grock and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1957 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sound in Z written by Andrey Smirnov and published by Walther Konig Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by David Rogerson, Matt Price. Foreword by Jeremy Deller. Text by Andrei Smirnov.
Download or read book Two Interviews written by Luciano Berio and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalmonte's questions cover many aspects of contemporary musical life. Berio talks freely about his early childhood through his contact with the Darmstadt serialists and his experiences while teaching and performing in America. There is also a detailed examination of his major instrumental works of the 1960s -- Te Sequenzas, Chemins, and Sinfonia -- and a review of his involvement with electronic music in the 1970s. Varga asks him about his various vocal and theatrical works. Berio discusses the purpose of music.
