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4) The Sixties; The Process of Change
Major works of the late sixties, keyboard experiments, multi-movement chamber works, Ligeti attains major prominence.
For week 5
Read
Paul Griffiths, Virtuosity and Improvisation and Orchestras or Computers
, Modern Music and After (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
György Ligeti, "Ligeti–Ligeti" (1971), in Ligeti in Conversation with Péter Várnai, Josef Häusler, Claude Samuel and Himself, trans. Geoffrey Skelton (London: Eulenburg, 1983) 124–37.
György Ligeti, “On Music and Politics,” Perspectives of New Music 16/2 (1978), 19-24.
Amy Bauer, Transparent Tangle of History (Le Grand Macabre, Chapter 4), Ligeti’s Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism and the Absolute (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate), 2011.
Jonathan Bernard, "Inaudible Structures, Audible Music: Ligeti’s Problem, and His Solution,” Music Analysis 6/3 (1987), 207-36.
Listen
Radio 4: The Late Sixties: The Process of Change
Analyze for May 14
10 Pieces for Wind Quintet, No. 3, (1968)
Questions here as Word doc. As pdf
Further Reading
Michael McNabb, "Ligeti at Stanford and Berkeley," Computer Music Journal 17/4 (1993), 73–5.
Louis Christensen, "Conversation with Ligeti at Stanford," Numus-West 2 (1972), 17–20.
Adrian Jack, "Ligeti Talks to Adrian Jack," Music and Musicians 22/11 (1974), 24–30.
György Ligeti and Peter Varnai, "Liget–Peter Varnai" (1979), in Ligeti in Conversation with Péter Várnai, Josef Häusler, Claude Samuel and Himself, trans. Gabor J. Schabert (London: Eulenburg, 1983), 13–82
.György Ligeti, "Form," in Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music, vol. III, Ruth Katz and Carl Dahlhaus (eds.) (Stuyvesant: Pendragon. 1992), 781–96.
György Ligeti and Michael Meschke, English Libretto, Le Grand Macabre (1996)
Ove Nordwall, "Ligeti's harpsichord," Contemporary Music Review, 20:1 (2001), 71-8.
Ignacio Baca-Lobera, "György Ligeti's Melodien, a Work of Transition," Interface 20 1991 65–78.
Edwards, Peter, Resisting Closure: The Passacaglia Finale from György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre," Music Analysis 35:2 2016 258–78.
Yayoi Uno Everett, "Signification of Parody and the Grotesque in György Ligeti’s Le Grande Macabre," Music Theory Spectrum 31/1 (2009), 26–56.
Amy Bauer, "Contemporary Opera and the Failure of Language," (partial), The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, ed. Björn Heile and Charles Wilson 2018 427–35.
Jonathan Bernard, "Voice-Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti," Music Analysis 13:2-3 (1994), 227–53. and "Ligeti’s Restoration of Interval and Its Significance for His Later Works,"" Music Theory Spectrum 21/1 (1999), 1-31.
Work List
Lontano for orchestra (1967) LL
String Quartet No. 2 (1968) LL
I, II, III, IV, V
10 Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)
Continuum for harpsichord (1968)
Two Etudes for Organ (1969) LL
Harmonies
Coulée
Ramifications for double string orchestra (1968-69) LL
Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments (1969-70) LL
I, II, III, IV