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.

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.

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.

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.

"Features over 9000 references to analyses of the works of more than 1000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These references address form, harmony, melody, rhythm and other structural elements of musical composition."--Cover.

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

"Italian music of the 1960s is one of the most unjustly neglected areas in the arena of twentieth-century classical music. This volume pays tribute to the astounding complexity of the music and libretti of five vocal compositions by leading experimental composers of the decade: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni, and Armando Gentilucci. It highlights how the 'difficult' and unconventional methods of composition employed by these artists - dodecaphony, total serialism, Webernian minimalist techniques, aleatory and electronic music - displayed a refusal to compete with the market-place values of Italy's new capitalist society. At the same time, the libretti's collage arrangement of a plethora of European and Oriental literary sources dating from the sixteenth century BC onwards, reflected the contemporary Neo-avant-garde rejection of conventional literary practice, and their preference for 'organised disorder', in Umberto Eco's phrase."

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

Das Buch von Bettina Buchmann erläutert sämtliche spiel-, registrier- und klangtechnischen Möglichkeiten des Akkordeons in systematischer Form. Es zeigt Instrumentalisten die Besonderheiten dieser Techniken auf und informiert Komponisten zusätzlich über notationstechnische Besonderheiten. Von der Autorin eingespielte Klangbeispiele sind zur Klangkontrolle und Information beigegeben. Eine grafische Darstellung mit der Anordnung der beschrifteten Knopfreihen des Instrumentes in Originalgröße hilft Komponisten beim Überprüfen der Griffmöglichkeiten. Sowohl für Komponisten wie auch für Interpreten und Pädagogen ist dieses schon lange erwartete Buch ein unverzichtbares Arbeitsmittel. - Umfassende Darstellung aller relevanten Spieltechniken auf dem Knopfakkordeon - Praxisorientierte Notationsvorschläge für Komponisten - Aussagekräftige Notationsbeispiele aus maßgeblichen zeitgenössischen Werken - Klangbeispiele mit allen Registrierungs- und Spieltechniken sowie Literaturbeispielen - Grafische Darstellung mit den Knopfreihen in Originalgröße - Zweisprachiger Text (dt./engl.)