Karlheinz Stockhausen - Traum-Formel (Dream-Formula) | Текст песни

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Dream-Formula (from the opera Samstag), for basset horn (1981)

I. Introduktion (Introduction)
II. Fünfschichtige Formel (Five-layer formula)
III. Zweiter Formel-Durchgang (Second round of the formula)
IV. Ausgang (Exit)

Suzanne Stephens, basset horn

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Traum-Formel (Dream Formula) (1981) for basset horn originates from the \"super-formula\" the composer used for his opera cycle Licht. The score includes specific instructions for the performer: he or she is to wear a blue-black or green-black costume, and stage movement and lighting suggestions are indicated as well.

Musically, Traum-Formel combines five polyphonic lines derived from the Licht \"formula\"; each line is marked by distinct gestures, articulations, and rhythms. This sort of single-instrument polyphony hearkens to similar instances in, for example, Luciano Berio's Sequenza series, though it extends back to Bach's contrapuntal works for solo violin and solo cello.

Traum-Formel was written as a birthday gift for clarinetist and frequent Stockhausen collaborator Suzanne Stephens. [allmusic.com]