György Ligeti : beyond avant-garde and postmodernism / Constantin Floros ; translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch.
| Author/creator |
Floros, Constantin |
| Other author/creator | Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest, 1934- translator. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Frankfurt am Main : PL Academic Research, 2014. |
| Description | vi, 252 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | György Ligeti. English |
| Contents | Part one: Personality and fundamental aspects of the work. Biographical sketch -- Questions of identity -- Towards an intellectual physiognomy -- A "non-puristic" music -- Metaphors, allusions and synaesthesias -- Innovativeness: aspects of compositional technique -- Motion types, tonal gestures and expressive characters -- Time and space ; Imaginary space -- New sound images, new semantemes ; "Cystoscopy", vacuum and music of the spheres -- A "double-bottomed" relation to tradition -- Diversity of inspirational sources ; A universalist concept of art and music -- New ways of transcending the tempered system -- Backgrounds of Ligeti's popularity -- Part two: Works. Composing in the homeland -- Going beyond serialism -- Apparitions and the dream of the web -- Atmosphères: a secret Requiem? -- Micropolyphony -- Language and music in the Requiem -- Lux aeterna -- Continuum -- New conceptions of the Concertante: notes on the Cello Concerto -- On the Three Pieces for Two Pianos -- Mad world theater: Le Grand Macabre -- The turning point ca. 1980 -- Épater l'Avant-garde: retrospective and forward-looking elements in the Horn Trio -- Notes on the Hölderlin Fantasies -- Construction and imagination: principles of the Piano Etudes -- "Quasi-equidistance" and polyrhythm: coordinates of the Piano Concerto -- The Violin Concerto -- The Horn Concerto. |
| Abstract | This monograph is an authoritative study of the oeuvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti's key works are presented in the context of their drafts and sketches. His personal and artistic development is set forth and illuminated, and his principal compositions are analyzed and reinterpreted, based on detailed studies of the scores and drafts, as well as on personal conversations with the composer. In addition, numerous questions concerning today's composing are raised and discussed. Music does not have to be puristic: Ligeti's spheres of interest are close to universal, embracing history, natural science, and visual arts, as well as music of diverse eras and ethnicities. This expanded world of the musical comprises not just tones and sounds, speech and music, the vocal and the instrumental: Ligeti conceives music as a cosmos of acoustic form. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Translated from the German. |
| LCCN | 2014021260 |
| ISBN | 9783631654996 |
| ISBN | 3631654995 (hardback) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.L645 F5613 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |