Luciano Berio
'points on the curve to find ...'
Short instrumentation: 3 2 3 2 - 2 2 1 1 - cel, alto sax, vla(1), vc(2), cb(1)
Duration: 11'
Dedication: to Dorothy d'Bonaventura
Solos:
piano
Instrumentation details:
1st flute
2nd flute
3rd flute
oboe
cor anglais
1st clarinet in Bb
2nd clarinet in Bb
3rd clarinet in Bb
alto saxophone in Eb (+t.sax(Bb))
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
1st trumpet in C
2nd trumpet in C
trombone
bass tuba
celesta
viola
1st violoncello
2nd violoncello
contrabass
Berio - 'points on the curve to find ...' for piano and 22 instruments
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Luciano Berio
Berio: Points on the curve to find for piano and 22 instrumentalistsOrchestration: for piano and 22 instrumentalists
Type: Partitur
Luciano Berio
Berio: Points on the curve to find for piano and 22 instrumentalistsOrchestration: for piano and 22 instrumentalists
Type: Klavierauszug
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“Points on the curve to find …” sounds like one of the Chemins – perhaps because Berio initially composed the piano part, before adding the orchestral layers. The piece starts off in a great hurry, with an incessant tremolo in the piano, until the music abruptly halts just before the end. Berio explains the title this way: “ … the piano part alone (it is almost always homophonic) can be heard as a curve … on which the other instruments position themselves to reveal and interpret their harmonic characteristics – like a template or drawing, where one adds more lines at various points – they change the sense while also illuminating other latent aspects.”