Como una ola de fuerza y luz

Como una ola de fuerza y luz (Spanish for Like a wave of strength and light) is a composition for soprano, piano, orchestra, and magnetic tape by Italian composer Luigi Nono.

For this reason, Nono decided to expand the first draft of the composition and added a soprano voice with some of the lines of a poem by Argentine poet Julio Huasi [es].

The second numbered section starts at 4:15, marked Duro deciso, and with the incipit "En los vientos azarosos de esta tierra..." (Spanish for "In the hazardous winds of this country").

This section also features the soprano and the tape only, and ends at 6:30 with the piano entry, marked "Suono duro – Poco pedale sempre" in the score.

After the tape slowly fades out, the brass entry at 15:30 marks the start of what Nono himself called the " 'long march', from the low to the high register: 'highest tension'".

The piece ends with a succession of "waves" full of tone clusters followed by the tape reminiscing the prologue and the central part while it slowly fades out.