Luciano Berio
Sequenza IX
Duration: 13'
Instrumentation details:
clarinet in Bb
Berio - Sequenza IX for clarinet
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Luciano Berio
Berio: Sequenza IXa for clarinet
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Orchestration: for clarinet
Type: Noten
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Work introduction
The piece begins rather hesitantly, as if the music were preparing again and again to play a melody, only to remain stuck on a single pitch, held for 10, then 8, then 6 seconds. But the music does slowly gain momentum, the sustained pitches dispelled until they reoccur at the end.
Berio says that Sequenza IX for clarinet is a long melody which, “like almost every melody, includes redundancy, symmetries, transformations and recurrence.”