1. Sequenza III for female voice study 1
Luciano Berio
Sequenza III for female voice
study 1

2. What we will be covering
Berio the composer
Cathy Berberian
Italian Futurism
Background to the Sequenzas
Some score convertions
Performance with score

3. Karlheinz Stockhausen
Luciano Berio
Italian composer
born 1927
Contemporary with
died 2003
Pierre Boulez
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mauricio Kagel
György Ligeti
Witold Lutosławski
Elliott Carter

4. Many literary influences Many musical influences
Varied output
Luciano Berio
Prolific
Highly individual
Many vocal works
Lyrical
Many literary influences
Many musical influences

5. American Mezzo Soprano
Cathy Berberian
American Mezzo Soprano
born 1925
died 1983
Married to Berio

6. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian Futurism
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

7. How is the order of the text to be interpreted?
give me
for a woman
a few words
a truth
allowing us
to sing
to build a house
without worrying
before night comes
give me
for a woman
a few words
a truth
allowing us
to sing
to build a house
without worrying
before night comes

8. A cycle of works for solo instrument Written for specific performers
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 ( )
Sequenza XII for bassoon (1995)
Sequenza XIII for accordion (1995)
Sequenza XIVa for violoncello (2002)
A cycle of works for solo instrument
Highly virtuosic
Written for specific performers
Extended technique

9. Trends in notation circa 1960s
Xenakis Pithoprakta

10. Penderecki De natura sonoris

11. Berio Circles
Cardew Treatise page 75
Cradew Treatise page 183
Berio Circles

12. Luciano Berio
Sequenza III
for female voice