Composition 3

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Ligeti

Indicative works: String Quartet No 2, Double Concerto, Chamber Concerto

Grove article on Ligeti (APU campus only).

Lux Aeterna

for sixteen voices

1966

'Cello Concerto

1966

String Quartet No 2

1967-8

Chamber Concerto

for thirteen instrumentalists

1969-70

Double Concerto

for flute and oboe

1972

Ligeti Techniques

Typical Ligeti compositional techniques include:

• The use of dense, crowded, chromatic textures often through the use of polyphony and canonic methods.
• Extremes of texture - often the music is either very fast or slow, for instance, or very quiet for some time and then suddenly very loud (or vice versa).
• Intensely colourful orchestration.
• Use of microtones.
• Very precise notation
• Occasional use of graphic notation.

Books, Links, etc.:

• Double Concerto Seminar/Analysis
• Ligeti Site
• http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ligeti.html
• http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/ligeti/bio.html
• http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00000056/
• Schott's pages
• http://www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/ligeti.html
• http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/ligeti.html