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In Remembering the Future Luciano Berio 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." His scintillating meditation on music and the ways of experiencing it reflects the composer's profound understanding of the history and contemporary practice of his art.

There is much in this short book that provides insight on Berio's own compositions. Indeed, he comments that writing it "led me to formulate thoughts that might otherwise have remained concealed in the folds of my work." He explores themes such as transcription and translation, poetics and analysis, "open work," and music theater. The reader will also find here numerous insights on the work of other composers, past and present, and much more. A figure of formidable intellect, Berio ranges easily among topics such as Schenkerian analysis, the criticism of Carl Dahlhaus and Theodor Adorno, the works of his friends and sometime collaborators Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco. But Berio carries his learning lightly--his tone is conversational, often playful, punctuated by arresting aphorisms: "The best possible commentary on a symphony is another symphony."

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Two seminal interviews with the celebrated Italian composer, exploring his views on music, his method of composition and wider philosophies. ... Read more

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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. It is 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; Analytical Approaches. ... Read more

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Very sparse coverage of the fourth movement, but a useful guide
PLAYING ON WORDS: A Guide to Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia" by David Osmond-Smith is an exploration of the Italian composer's great postmodern orchestral work.

The first chapter, "'Sinfonia' and its Precursors" places the work in the larger context of Berio's career up to 1968. The following five chapters are dedicated to a specific movement of the work. "Mythologiques" is mainly concerned with the source text for the first movement, drawn from Levi-Strauss. "O King" details the structural properties of the pitch set and the rhythmic set, and the selective resonance of the second movement. For the discussion of the third movement, readers will want to obtain a copy of the score of Berio's work, as Osmond-Smith catalogues the numerous quotations according to the rehersal number they are found in. Osmond-Smith explains the "obliteration as form" that makes the use of the Mahler quotation so idiosyncratic. The fourth chapter treats the fourth and fifth movements together. Discussion of the fourth movement is very brief, only two pages, but the fifth is exhaustively covered.

When I first got a copy of "Sinfonia", I could relate easily only the zany third movement, which is quite accessible. Osmond-Smith's guide helped me better understand the other movements of the work. The book does indeed expand appreciation of Berio's composition. ... Read more

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Chapters: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Michael Nyman, John Zorn, Arvo Pärt, La Monte Young, Bradley Joseph, Django Bates, Juan María Solare, Egberto Gismonti, William Susman, Frans Geysen, Meredith Monk, Rhys Chatham, Hans-Jürgen Von Bose, Wim Mertens, Henry Flynt, Anomie Belle, Joe Jones, John Mcguire, Gunther Schuller, Charlemagne Palestine, Craig First, Carlos Stella, Michael Harrison, Jacob Isaacson, Carlo Forlivesi, Scott Johnson, Andrew Poppy, Catherine Christer Hennix, Sylvie Courvoisier, Obsil, László Vidovszky, Ezequiel Viñao, Jocelyn Morlock, Helen Chadwick. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 272. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music. Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City, the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada and composed the associated 'Masada Songbooks', written concert music for classical ensembles, and produced music for film and documentary. Zorn has stated that "I've got an incredibly short attention span. My music is jam-packed with information that is changing very fast... All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there." After releasing albums on several independent US and European labels,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=86018 ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Compositions by Luciano Berio, Recital I, Sequenza X, Sequenza Xi, Folk Songs, Epifanie, Sequenza Iv, Cinque Variazione, Sequenza Xii, Sequenza Ii, Sequenza V, Circles, Différences, Chamber Music, Kol-Od, Due Pezzi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A list of works by the Italian composer Luciano Berio. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736721 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Newsmakers 2004 Cumulation, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 731 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Newsmakers provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Luciano Berio, Claudio Scajola, Edmondo de Amicis, Mario Bava, Léonard de Port-Maurice, Fabio Fognini, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Marco Guglielmi, Carmine Gallone, Andrea Doria, Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, Giulio Benso, Giovanni Verrando, Giacomo Giretto, Pasquale Anfossi, Domenico Ponsello, Carlo Amoretti, Mercedes Bresso, Giulio Natta, Gregorio de Ferrari, Nicolò Maria Lercari, Achille Vianelli, Giuseppe Perletto, Mariella Devia, Francesco Sasso, Cristiano Salerno, Fernando Fusco, Albino Ballestra, Alessandro Natta. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Luciano Berio, né le 24 octobre 1925 à Oneglia en Italie et décédé le 27 mai 2003 à Rome, était un compositeur italien réputé pour ses travaux expérimentaux et son travail de pionnier dans la musique électroacoustique. Son père et son grand-père étaient des organistes qui lui apprirent le piano. De 1946 à 1951, Luciano Berio fit de courtes apparitions à la télé pour le jeu monopoly et étudia au Conservatoire Giuseppe Verdi de Milan chez Giulio Cesare Paribeni (contrepoint) et Giorgio Federico Ghedini (composition). C'est à cette époque qu'il découvre les compositeurs modernes de la seconde école de Vienne (Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg et Anton Webern), mais aussi Bartok, Stravinski, Paul Hindemith et Darius Milhaud. Blessé à la main, il ne peut continuer ses études de piano et gagne sa vie comme accompagnateur de classes de chant. Il fait ainsi la connaissance de la soprano américaine Cathy Berberian qu'il épousa en 1950. Ils restèrent mariés jusqu'en 1964. En 1951, il se rendit aux États-Unis à Tanglewood pour étudier chez Luigi Dallapiccola qui poussa son intérêt vers les principes du sérialisme. Il participa aux Ferienkurse für Neue Musik à Darmstadt...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jane Goodall, Charles K. Kao, Krzysztof Penderecki, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Alfred Brendel, Władysław Bartoszewski, Amos Oz, Ryszard Kapuściński, Norman Davies, Luc Montagnier, Paul R. Ehrlich, Hans Küng, Walter Boeykens, Martin Walser, Margot Käßmann, Ada Yonath, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Manfred Wagner, Lorin Maazel, Siglind Bruhn, Ernst Poeppel, Alain Pompidou, Jörg Immendorff, Helmut Jahn, Peter Koslowski, Karl-Otto Apel, Bruce Alberts, Carla J. Shatz, Peter Häberle, Yakir Aharonov, Philippe Van Parijs, Gebhard Fürst, Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech, António Damásio, Thomas Hampson, Robert Von Dassanowsky, Frank Press, Hermann Nitsch, Theodore Khoury, Hans Hollein, András Schiff, Michael Sela, Dominique Perrault, Yury Osipov, Mateja Matevski, Gottfried Böhm, Agnes Baltsa, Matija Gogala, Friedrich Cerha, Teuvo Kohonen, Jiří Gruša, Alojz Uran, Karl Matthäus Woschitz, Udo Zimmermann, Klaus Ager, Ernst Ulrich Von Weizsäcker, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Blinc, Pierre Gros, Rivka Carmi, Ernst J. Mestmaecker, Otmar Issing, Rudolf Zahradník, Árpád Balázs, Zdeněk Veselovský, Branislav Šoškić, Aleksandar Despić. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Charles Kuen ("K. C.") Kao CBE FRS FREng (traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Go Kn (Kao Kuen); born November 4, 1933) is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao, widely regarded as the "Father of Fiber Optics" or "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication". Kao was born in Shanghai in 1933, but his ancestral home is in Jinshan, Jiangsu now part of Shanghai. He studied Chinese clas...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=51012 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Luciano Berio, Milton Babbitt, Itzhak Perlman, Christopher Durang, Elliott Carter, John Houseman, Tony Kushner, Vincent Persichetti, Alan Shulman, Lillian Fuchs, Rose Bampton, Kathleen Parlow, Karen Tuttle, William Schuman, Henry Brant, Indrani Rahman, Sharon Isbin, David Hammond, Homer Mensch, Robert Ward, Marian Seldes, Bessie Schonberg, Glenn Dicterow, Felix Salmond, Steven Lubin, Richard Cross, Joel Krosnick, Joseph Alessi, Robert Beaser, Edouard Dethier, Ivan Galamian, Samuel Adler, James Depreist, Eric Ewazen, Marsha Norman, Robert Folk, Andrew Thomas, Tim Cobb, György Sándor, Dorothy Delay, Paul Doktor, Robert Mann, Emanuel Ax, Sixten Ehrling, Jeffrey Milarsky, Giora Schmidt, Christopher Rouse, Olga Samaroff, John Mack, Teddy Wilson, Gerre Hancock, Monica Huggett, Martha Hill, Paul Jacobs, Dodi Protero, Maureen Fleming, Julius Baker, Cynthia Phelps, Isidore Cohen, Josef Lhévinne, Ellen Faull, Juilliard String Quartet, Philip Lasser, Arthur Weisberg, American Brass Quintet, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Orin O'brien, Lester Trimble, Paul Kantor, Eugene Levinson, Stefan Milenković, Simon Kovar, Benjamin Harkarvy, Judith Leclair, Joseph Fuchs, Walter Trampler, Jerome Lowenthal, Simon Sargon, Joseph W. Polisi, Jacob Lateiner, Joseph Allard, Charles L. Bestor, Carl Schachter, Adele Marcus, Oren Brown, Baruch Arnon, David Soyer, Joseph Bloch, William Vacchiano, Frank Deal, William Fitzpatrick, Bernard Wagenaar, Albert Laszlo, Lewis Kaplan, Nancy Allen, Kevin Cobb, Richard Westenburg, David Dubal, Harold Gomberg, Kenneth Law, Mischa Mischakoff, Elaine Douvas, Melvin Kaplan, Fred Sherry, John Ferrillo, Paul Neubauer, Jeffrey Khaner. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=246830 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Luciano Berio, Carlo Amoretti, Mario Bava, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Pasquale Anfossi, Claudio Scajola, Fabio Fognini, Edmondo de Amicis, Matteo Giordano, Giulio Natta, Maurizio Peccarisi, Mariella Devia, Mercedes Bresso, Hassan Aziz Hassan, Angelo Iachino, Cino Tortorella, Ugo Ventimiglia. Excerpt:Angelo Iachino (or Jachino ; April 4, 1889 - December 3, 1976) was an Italian admiral during World War II . Early life and career Born at Sanremo , Liguria , Iachino entered the Italian Naval Academy at Livorno in 1904, and graduated in 1907. During World War I he served as commander of a torpedo boat. For his bravery in a combat action he received a decoration at war's end in November 1918. From 1923 to 1928 he served in China as naval attache to the Italian embassy. In 1928 he assumed command of a destroyer, and then a cruiser in the early 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War he was the commander of two groups of light ships. He also participated in the occupation of Albania in April 1939. World War II Iachino commanded a cruiser squadron in the Battle of Cape Spartivento in 1940, and after the Battle of Taranto became an Ammiraglio di Squadra (Vice Admiral) and commander-in-chief of the Regia Marina . He led the navy in the battles of Cape Matapan (March 1941), First Sirte (December 1941) and Second Sirte (March 1942). On 5 April 1943 he was relieved of command and replaced by Carlo Bergamini . He retired in 1954 with the rank of Ammiraglio d'Armata (Admiral), and died in Rome in 1976, at the age of 87. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Carlo Amoretti Carlo Amoretti (16 March 1741, Oneglia , now part of Imperia 23 March 1816) was an ecclesiastic , scholar , writer , and scientist . He was born in Oneglia, now Imperia in the Liguria region, Italy... ... Read more

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Chapters: Luciano Berio, Ottorino Respighi, Franco Donatoni, Alfredo Casella, Antonio Cotogni, Salomon Sulzer, Mario Zafred, Luigi Ricci, Guido Agosti, Riccardo Brengola, Pina Carmirelli, Domenico Nordio, Giorgio Gaslini, Enrico Mainardi, Virgilio Mortari, Carlo Zecchi, Cesare Dobici, Giorgio Nataletti. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879, Bologna - April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals". His musicological interest in 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century music led him to also compose pieces based on the music of this period. Born in Bologna, he studied composition with Giuseppe Martucci and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Many sources indicate that he also studied briefly with Max Bruch, but in her biography of the composer, Respighi's wife asserts that this is not the case. Principally a violinist until 1908, he then turned primarily to composition. He lived in Rome from 1913. Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna, Italy. He was taught piano and violin by his father, who was a local piano teacher. He continued studying violin and viola with Federico Sarti at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, composition with Giuseppe Martucci, and historical studies with Luigi Torchi, a scholar of early music. A year after receiving his diploma in violin in 1899, Respighi went to Russia to be principal violist in the orchestra of the Russian Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg during its season of Italian opera; while there he studied composition for five months with Rimsky-Korsakov. He then returned to Bologna, where he earned a second degree in composition. Until ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=379008 ... Read more