11. Quotation, Parody, and Postmodernism

In Berio’s sinfonia, he has regular instruments from the classical era but what makes it unusual are the voices. He uses voices in a two way matter similar to instruments. Berio has the bass voices singing a specific type of lyrics and the higher voices saying another thing in a polyphonic way.

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