The composition is in four large sections, and sets out from the six pitches of the open strings of the guitar. The composer asserted that two intervals are important elements in the work: the perfect fourth (which is the interval found between most neighbouring pairs of the guitar's strings) and the tritone, which leads to a different harmony of Berio's devising (Porcaro 2007, 258–59).
Date of composition | 1988 |
Premiered | 1988, April 20th in Rovereto, Province of Trento, Italy |
First published | Universal Edition |
Dedicated to | Eliot Fisk |
Approx. duration | 14 minutes |
Instruments | Guitar |
Autotranslations beta |
Luciano Berio: Sequenza XI Luciano Berio: Sequenza XI Luciano Berio: Sequenza XI |