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Metamorphosis in Music: The Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s

Autor Benjamin R. Levy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 noi 2017
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Hungarian composer György Ligeti went through a remarkable period of stylistic transition, from the emulation of his fellow countryman Béla Bartók to his own individual style at the forefront of the Western-European avant-garde. Through careful study of the sketches and drafts, as well as analysis of the finished scores, Metamorphosis in Music takes a detailed look at this compositional evolution. Author Benjamin R. Levy includes sketch studies created through transcriptions and reproductions of archival material-much of which has never before been published-providing new, detailed information about Ligeti's creative process and compositional methods. The book examines all of Ligeti's compositions from 1956 to 1970, analyzing little-known and unpublished works in addition to recognized masterpieces such as Atmosphères, Aventures, the Requieim, and the Chamber Concerto. Discoveries from Ligeti's sketches, prose, and finished scores lead to an enriched appreciation of these already multifaceted works. Throughout the book, Levy interweaves sketch study with comments from interviews, counterbalancing the composer's own carefully crafted public narrative about his work, and revealing lingering attachments to older forms and insights into the creative process. Metamorphosis in Music is an essential treatment of a central figure of the musical midcentury, who found his place in a generation straddling the divide between the modern and post-modern eras.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199381999
ISBN-10: 0199381992
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 171
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Levys work provides countless insights into Ligetis music, its aesthetics, and its mechanics. He has convinced this reviewer that Ligetis sketches are essential in understanding Ligetis compositionalproject. If Levy has plans to write a second bookon Ligetis music after 1970his efforts would be much welcomed and greatly appreciated.
Levy points out that Ligeti was not only a composer of music for traditional instruments but also composed several electronic works and was considered somewhat of an authority on electronic music. Levy gives many examples of Ligeti's music and, more important, the sketches and thought processes Ligeti went through to create new works. The music examples show traditional and 21st-century notational techniques, and it is refreshing to see the sketches of Ligeti's music and the unique way he notated his ideas for musical compositions.

Notă biografică

Benjamin R. Levy is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary music and has published on composers including Ligeti, Xenakis, and Feldman. He received the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award in 2011.