Week 3, Ligeti, Scelsi

 

Julian Anderson, "La Note Juste," The Musical Times, 36/1823 (1995), 22-27.

Tristan Murail, "Scelsi, De-composer," trans. Robert Hasegawa, Contemporary Music Review 24/2-3 (2005), 173-180.

Benjamin Levy, "Ligeti’s Distant Resonances with Spectralism," The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music, Edit. by Amy Bauer, Liam Cagney, and William Mason (Oxford, 2022).

Scores

Scelsi, Quattro Pezzi for orchestra

Ligeti, Atmosphéres

Ligeti, Lux Aeerna

Ligeti, Lontano

Ligeti, Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments

 

Assignment 1, due April 18

Messiaen, Un Sourire, pdf instructions, word instructions

Messiaen, Un Sourire, score

Messiaen, Un Sourire, audio

Assignment 2, due May 2

Giacinto Scelsi, String Quartet No. 4, pdf instructions, word instructions

Scelsi, String Quartet No. 4, score

Scelsi, String Quartet No. 4, audio

Further Reading