Playing on Words: A Guide to Luciano Berio's Sinfonia, Pages 39-71Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Sinfonia and its Precursors -- Work in progress -- An overview of Sinfonia -- 2 Mythologiques -- The sources of Berio's text -- Isolated words and their function -- Phonetic materials -- The poetics of fragmentation -- Coherence as structure -- Musical structure -- 3 'O King' -- Structural properties of the pitch set -- The pitch set in macrocosm -- Climax and epilogue -- The rhythmic set -- Upbeat patterns -- The growth of rhythmic stability -- Rhythmic commentary in Sinfonia -- Parallel processes in rhythm and pitch -- Selective resonance -- Independent melodic lines -- Pitches outside the set -- Harmonic commentary upon the chamber version in Sinfonia -- The text and its structural potential -- Permutation and troping -- 4 'In ruhig fliessender Bewegung' -- From sermon to scherzo -- Texts for a sermon -- Obliteration as form -- Reduction and distortion -- Quotation -- Chromatic clusters -- Semantic associations of Mahler's scherzo -- Sources for the text -- Interactions between text and music -- An inventory of interrelations -- 5 Synthesis and Dissolution -- The fourth movement -- Rhythm and texture -- The text -- The fifth movement -- Before 'O King' -- Materials from 'O King' -- Superposed materials -- The final monody -- Text and music -- Fire vs. Water -- M.1 vs. M.124 -- 'La vie brève' -- 6 Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Playing on Words: A Guide to Luciano Berio's Sinfonia, Pages 39-71 David Osmond-Smith No preview available - 1985 |
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