Karlheinz Stockhausen — Oberlippentanz

Upper-Lip Dance (from the opera Samstag), for trumpet solo (1983) Markus Stockhausen, trumpet Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Oberlippentanz (Upper-Lip Dance) (1983) for solo piccolo trumpet is an extract from the composer’s Samstag (1981-84), one of the operas from the projected Licht cycle. In its operatic context, Oberlippentanz is part of “Luzifers Tanz“ (Lucifer’s Dance), in which an onstage ensemble assembled in the form of a giant face presents dances for the parts of the face: each eyebrow (Linker und Rec