Berio - Sequenza III for female voice

- Avant-garde

- Written in 1966

- Virtuosic

- Extended Vocal Techniques

- Performances are rare

• Likely to be at specialist modern music events

- No traditional rhythm or metre

- The timing of the piece is split into flexible 10 second segments

- Long and short durations which aren't notated traditionally

- Text = poem by Marc Kutter

- Frequently dislocated and split into treatments:

• Use of complete phrase (rare)
• Spinning out of new phrases drawing on component parts of etxt
• Splitting up of words or changing of component sounds

- Conventionally sung passages with clear pitches and intervals e.g. minor 3rds, broken triads, 7ths, augmented 4ths and repeated notes (notated on a 5-line stave)

- Otherwise, Berio uses other forms of voice-production:

• Muttering
• Laughing
• Tongue clicks
• Coughs
• Sighs
• Trills
• Tremolos
• Cupping of the hand over mouth