Music 230

Seminar in Contemporary Opera

 

Parody: Le Grand Macabre

 

Amy BauerExcerpt from "The transparent tangle of history,", Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and the Absolute Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2011.

Yayoi Uno Everett, "Signification of Parody and the Grotesque in György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre," Music Theory Spectrum 31/1 (2009), 26-56.

Further Reading

Peter Edwards, "Resisting Closure: The Passacaglia Finale from György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre," Music Analysis 35/2 (2016), 258-78.

Amy Bauer, Excerpt from Language and Opera paper on LGM

Score

Le Grand Macabre

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