The first and fifth movements of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia set fragments of Le cru et le cuit, Levi-Strauss's analysis of South American Indian myths, and the third movement is a commentary on the third movement of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony "Resurrection"). None of the other quotations in the third movement are treated. The outer movements are unified with the central one by the fact that in his analysis, Levi-Strauss attempted to forge groups of the myths he studied into structures analogous to those of Western classical music.

Works: Berio: Sinfonia.

Index Classifications: 1900s

Contributed by: Rob Lamborn