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Historical memory and Gyorgy Ligeti's sound-mass music 1958-1968Iverson, Jennifer Joy 05 February 2010 (has links)
This dissertation investigates the relationship between György Ligeti’s soundmass
works and the musical past. After his emigration in 1956, Ligeti (1923-2006)
gained renown for his sound-mass style, exemplified in works such as Apparitions (1958-
59), Atmosphères (1961), Requiem (1963-65) and Lontano (1967). These works
minimize the perceptual salience of melody, rhythm and harmony, instead foregrounding
orchestral clusters and thus suggesting that timbre is the central compositional issue.
Despite his immersion in the creative atmosphere of the Darmstadt circle, Ligeti’s soundmass
works diverged from the serial, pointillist style that preoccupied the European
avant-garde at the time. However, I argue that Ligeti’s distance from the Darmstadt
avant-garde is only apparent. In fact, this milieu served as his primary socio-cultural
reference point after his emigration.
The concept of “historical memory,” following from the work of French
sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945), suggests that Ligeti’s understanding of the
musical past was deeply shaped by the collective interpretations in circulation amongst
the Darmstadt avant-garde circle. Analysis of Ligeti’s sketches, writings and scores
shows that he recollected historical influences that were important in the discourses of his
milieu and redeployed them in his sound-mass works. For example, Ligeti’s Apparitions shows traces of the analyses of Debussy’s Jeux that were produced by Herbert Eimert and
Karlheinz Stockhausen. Atmosphères, though it is an acoustic work, reflects the
collective representation of electronic music that had developed at the Westdeutscher
Rundfunk studio in Cologne. The Darmstadt composers’ sustained interest in the concept
of Klangfarbenmelodie, as practiced by both Schoenberg and Webern, informs Ligeti’s
use of timbre in Lontano and the Cello Concerto. Finally, Ligeti capitalizes upon the
popularity of Webern around Darmstadt, using Webern’s music as an opportunity to
recast Bartók’s achievements to his new Western European colleagues in the Requiem.
Ligeti’s renegotiation of the musical past, within the discourses of his Darmstadt avantgarde
milieu, was crucial for his composition of the sound-mass works. / text
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On the Creation of MatterPoston, Paul W 28 March 2011 (has links)
On the Creation of Matter is a ten-minute composition for orchestra in which I explore large-scale musical texture through the use of uncommon orchestral techniques. The piece is comprised of three major sections: the introduction of space and time, the event, and the culmination. Each section features new textures while retaining harmonic references to earlier material. Heavily influenced by the works of György Ligeti and Krzysztof Penderecki, On the Creation of Matter musically captures the initial stillness of space and time and follows their transformation through a major astronomical event. In On the Creation of Matter I use concepts first explored by Ligeti and Penderecki and manipulate them to create a fully original new work for the concert stage.
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Seeing a Tree for the ForestThomas, Zachariah 09 August 2019 (has links)
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HypoxiaO'Dell, Adam David 10 April 2017 (has links)
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