'Come. Open Your Eyes. Listen ... I Hear Another Voice': The Voice, Time and Memory in Luciano Berio's Altra Voce (1999).
The human voice played a significant part in the compositions of Luciano Berio throughout his career, a preoccupation to which he returned again and again in order to examine, interrogate and celebrate its complex interactions with language, text, music, time and memory. This article examines the hu...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Music Review Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 332 - 344 |
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