Week 8

The New Romanticism

Wolfgang Rihm, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio


Edward Top, “Expectation and Treatment of Dissonance in Wolfgang Rihm’s Third String Quartet,”, Dutch Journal of Music Theory14/3 (2009), 143-54.

 

Amy Bauer, Chapter 6 "Lament and the absolute," in Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism and the Absolute, (Ashgate, 2011).

 

David Metzer, "Musical Decay: Luciano Berio's Rendering and John Cage's Europera 5," Journal of the Royal Musical Association 125/1 (2000): 93-114.

 

Music

Wolfgang Rihm

String Quartet No. 3, “Am Inningsten”, movement III (1976), Arditti Quartet.

String Quartet No. 3, “Am Inningsten” (1976), entire quartet Minguet Quartet.

Hölderlin Songs for voice and orchestra (1977)

Piano Piece No. 7

 

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No, 32, Op. 111, I, Maestoso, Allegro con brio appassionato

Piano Sonata No, 32, Op. 111, II, Arietta, Adagio Molto Semplice e Cantabile

Piano Sonata No, 31, Op. 110, III, Adagio mo non troppo

 

György Ligeti

Horn Trio I, Horn Trio II, Horn Trio III, Horn Trio IV

 

Luciano Berio

Rendering, I. Allegro, Rendering, II. Andante, Rendering, III. Allegro

 

Scores

Rihm, String Quartet No. 3, Piano Piece No. 7, Hölderlin Songs for voice and piano

 

Ligeti, Horn Trio (1982)

 

Berio/Schubert, Rendering (1988-1992)

 

Additional Reading

Seth Brodsky, "Rihm, Tonality, Psychosis, Modernity," Twentieth-Century Music 15/2 (2018), 147–186.

 

David Hier, "Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel," Music Theory Online 28/2 (June 2022).

 

Contemporary Music Review, Wolfgang Rihm: Unity in Diversity, 36/4 (2017).

 

Yves Knockaert, Wolfgang Rihm, A Chifre: The 1980s and Beyond (Leuven University Press, 2017).

 

Eric Drott, “The Role of Triadic harmony in Ligeti’s Recent Music,” Music Analysis 22/3 (2003): 283–314.

 

David Metzer, Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 147–63.

 

Thomas Peattie,"Luciano Berio’s Nineteenth Century," Contemporary Music Review 8/3-4 (2019): 418-440.