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opening A section is an exposition dominated at first by the tremolando chords, but also using short melodic segments to articulate phrases and create internal fluctuations. These melodic figures gradually increase in prominence over the course of this section. The A' section develops the chordal gestures, while the B section focuses instead on the melodic ideas, using the tremolando gesture as an articulative device at first. In a reversal of the process found in the exposition, the tremolando chords gradually increase in frequency over the B section. A'' restates the chordal material and, in its second subsection, introduces a heightened level of activity. The concluding B' section then serves as a coda.
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exploits the harmonic possibilities of a fundamentally melodic instrument. It does this in two ways: first, by implying harmonies with melodic lines circling continuously through a small number of fixed pitches and, second, by presenting long series of three- and four-part chords in which the pitches
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then extracted from it. The relationship of the three works is described by Berio as being "something like the layers of an onion: distinct, separate, yet intimately contoured on each other; each new layer creates a new, though related surface, and each older layer assumes a new function as soon as
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The work alternates these two gestural ideas (melodic and chordal), producing a sectional form based on changes in texture, gestural predominance, and shaping processes. The sections may be summarized as a pattern of AA'BA''B', with the A' and A'' sections each divided into two subsections. The
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Holmes, Reed Kelley (1981). "Relational Systems and Process in Recent Works of Luciano Berio", 2 volumes. PhD diss. Austin: The University of Texas at Austin.
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The Modification and Instrumentation of a Famous Hornpipe as a Merry and Altogether Sincere Homage to Uncle Alfred
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Osmond-Smith, David (October 1975). "Berio and the Art of Commentary".
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MacKay, John (1988). "Aspects of Post-Serial Structuralism in Berio's
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was written, believed it had in fact been composed first and the
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Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid"
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it is covered". Two further works were evolved from
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Index

viola
Luciano Berio
Sequenze
Serge Collot
Walter Trampler
bass clarinet
tremolo
Uscher 1982–83


Smalley 1971
Osmond-Smith 1975
Holmes 1981
The Musical Times
doi
10.2307/959202
JSTOR
959202
Smalley, Roger
The Musical Times
doi
10.2307/955060
JSTOR
955060
Perspectives of New Music
doi
10.2307/832877
JSTOR
832877
Journal of New Music Research

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