Playing on words : a guide to Luciano Berio's Sinfonia / David Osmond-Smith.

Author/creator Osmond-Smith, David
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Royal Musical Association ; Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : B. Jordon Music Books [distributor], 1985.
Descriptionvii, 95 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
Subjects
Berio, Luciano, 1925-2003. Sinfonia.

SeriesRoyal Musical Association monographs ; no. 1
Royal Musical Association monographs ; no. 1. ^A217826
Contents Sinfonia and its precursors. Work in progress ; An overview of Sinfonia -- Mythologiques. The sources of Berio's text ; Isolated words and their function ; Phonetic materials ; The poetics of fragmentation ; Coherence as structure ; Musical structure -- '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 -- 'In ruhig fliessender Bewegung'. From sermon to scherzo ; Texts for a sermon ; Obliteration as form ; Reduction and distortion ; Quotation ; Chromatic clusters ; Semantic assocations of Mahler's scherzo ; Sources for the text ; Interactions between text and music ; An inventory of interrelations -- 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 breve'.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 92-93) and index.
LCCN 85154370
ISBN0947854002

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