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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I Creative personality and aesthetics -- 1 Music in the Technological Era -- 2 â#x80;#x98;. . . Music is a bit like love â#x80;#x93; you do it, but you donâ#x80;#x99;t talk about itâ#x80;#x99; -- 3 The innate melodist -- 4 Ligetiâ#x80;#x99;s musical style as expression of cultural trauma -- 5 Making it home? The natural sciences as a site of belonging in GyÃœrgy Ligetiâ#x80;#x99;s music -- PART II Influences and backgrounds |
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6 Reflections on Ligetiâ#x80;#x99;s Jewish identity: unknown documents from his Cluj years7 Ligeti and Romanian folk music: an insight from the Paul Sacher Foundation -- 8 Ligeti and the beginnings of Bartók analysis in Hungary -- 9 Bartók, Ligeti and the innovative middle road -- 10 From row to Klang : Ligetiâ#x80;#x99;s reception of Anton Webernâ#x80;#x99;s music -- PART III Works -- 11 Genre as émigré: the return of the repressed in Ligetiâ#x80;#x99;s Second Quartet -- 12 Sketches refl ecting the images of San Francisco |
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13 Ironic self-portraits? Ligetiâ#x80;#x99;s Hungarian Rock and Passacaglia ungherese14 Tragedy and irony: the Passacaglia of the Violin Concerto -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
"Since György Ligeti's death in 2006, there has been a growing acknowledgement of how central he was to the late twentieth-century cultural landscape. This collection is the first book devoted to exploring the composer's life and music within the context of his East European roots, revealing his dual identities as both Hungarian national and cosmopolitan modernist. Contributors explore the artistic and socio-cultural contexts of Ligeti's early works, including composition and music theory, the influence of East European folk music, notions of home and identity, his ambivalent attitude to his Hungarian past and his references to his homeland in his later music. Many of the valuable insights offered profit from new research undertaken at the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel, while also drawing on the knowledge of long-time associates such as the composer's assistant, Louise Duchesneau. The contributions as a whole reveal Ligeti's thoroughly cosmopolitan milieu and values, and illuminate why his music continues to inspire new generations of performers, composers and listeners."--Provided by publisher |
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Ligeti, György, 1923-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ligeti, György, 1923-2006. fast (OCoLC)fst00050625 |
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kerékfy, Márton
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| ISBN |
9781315592411 |
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131559241X |
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1317105109 |
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9781317105107 |
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