Week 3: Ligeti, Vivier
Read:
Atmosphères form chart
Lukas Haselböck's spectral chart of Atmosphères
Jennifer Iverson, "The Emergence of Timbre: Ligeti's Synthesis of Electronic and Acoustic Music in Atmosphères," twentieth-century music 7:1 (2011), 61–89.
Amy Bauer, "The Transparent Tangle of History: Ligeti's Lontano"
Bob Gilmore, "On Claude Vivier's 'Lonely Child'"
Further Reading:
Jane Piper Clendinning, "Structural Factors in the Microcanonic Compositions of György Ligeti," in Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945, ed. Elizabeth West Marvin and Richard Mermann (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2002), 229–56.
Bryan Christian, "Combination-Tone Class Sets and Redefining the Role of les Couleurs in Claude Vivier's Bouchara," Music Theory Online 20:2 (1014)
Claude Vivier, vingt-cinq ans après: une introspection, Circuite: Musiques Contemporaines 18:3 (2008) (contact me for articles not available at website)
Listen:
György Ligeti, Atmosphères for orchestra (1961), Lux Aeterna (1966), Lontano (1967)
Claude Vivier, Lonely Child (1980), Zipangu, Bouchara
Scores:
Atmosphères
Lux Aeterna
Lontano
Lonely Child
Assignment:
Ligeti, discussion of form in Atmosphères, due Wednesday, Feb. 8, pdf
Video:
Lonely Child
Resources:
Boosey & Hawkes Vivier page
Mike Searby's Ligeti site