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György Ligeti's Cultural Identities

Author : Amy Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317105109
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book György Ligeti's Cultural Identities written by Amy Bauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ligeti's Cultural Identities

Author : Amy Marie Bauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472473660
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Ligeti's Cultural Identities written by Amy Marie Bauer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty

Author : Oana Andreica
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303111146X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Music as Cultural Heritage and Novelty written by Oana Andreica and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as national identities, narrative strategies, the question of musical performance and musical meaning. Alongside themes of general interest, such as classical repertoire, the music of well-established composers and musical topics, the chapters of the book also touch on specific, but equally interesting subjects, like Brazilian traditions, Serbian and Romanian composers and the lullaby. While the book is mostly addressed to researchers, it can also be recommended to students in musicology, ethnomusicology, musical performance, and musical semiotics.

György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque

Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315531283
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque written by Peter Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed by Ligeti as an ‘anti-anti-opera’, the piece is a highly ambiguous, apocalyptic fable about the human condition, fear of death and the final judgement. As the first book in English solely dedicated to discussion of this work, György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque offers new perspectives on the opera’s musico-dramatic identity in the context of musical postmodernism. Peter Edwards draws on a range of modernist and postmodernist theories to explore the collision of past styles and genre models in the opera, its expressive states and its engagement with the grotesque. This is ably supported by musical analysis and extensive study of Ligeti’s sketch materials held at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. Edwards’s analyses culminate in a new approach to examining the opera’s rich multiplicities, the composition of the musical material and the nature of Ligeti’s relationship with the musical past. This is a key reference work in the fields of musical modernism and postmodernism, opera studies and the music of Ligeti.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Author : Richard Toop
Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gyorgy Ligeti written by Richard Toop and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the influential Hungarian composer, teacher and mentor.

The Beethoven Syndrome

Author : Mark Evan Bonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190068477
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Beethoven Syndrome written by Mark Evan Bonds and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after his death that listeners began to hear composers in general--and not just Beethoven--in their works, particularly in their instrumental music. The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of this mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Prior to 1830, composers and audiences alike operated within a framework of rhetoric in which the burden of intelligibility lay squarely on the composer, whose task it was to move listeners in a calculated way. But through a confluence of musical, philosophical, social, and economic changes, the paradigm of expressive objectivity gave way to one of subjectivity in the years around 1830. The framework of rhetoric thus yielded to a framework of hermeneutics: concert-goers no longer perceived composers as orators but as oracles to be deciphered. In the wake of World War I, however, the aesthetics of "New Objectivity" marked a return not only to certain stylistic features of eighteenth-century music but to the earlier concept of expression itself. Objectivity would go on to become the cornerstone of the high modernist aesthetic that dominated the century's middle decades. Masterfully citing a broad array of source material from composers, critics, theorists, and philosophers, Mark Evan Bonds's engaging study reveals how perceptions of subjective expression have endured, leading to the present era of mixed and often conflicting paradigms of listening.

Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music

Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538122987
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music written by Nicole V. Gagné and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary music scene thus embodies a uniquely broad spectrum of activity, which has grown and changed down to the present hour. With new talents emerging and different technologies developing as we move further into the 21st century, no one can predict what paths music will take next. All we can be certain of is that the inspiration and originality that make music live will continue to bring awe, delight, fascination, and beauty to the people who listen to it. This book cover modernist and postmodern concert music worldwide from the years 1888 to 2018. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide, from 1888 to 2018. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about modern and contemporary classical music.

Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization

Author : Christian Utz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839450950
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization written by Christian Utz and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st century. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled histories, and reflexive globalization. The relationship between music and broader changes in society forms the central focus and is treated as a pivotal music-historical dynamic.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Author : Richard Steinitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571281756
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Gyorgy Ligeti written by Richard Steinitz and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illuminating study of the life and work of György Ligeti, one of the best-loved and most original composers of our time.

Grief, Identity, and the Arts

Author : Bram Lambrecht
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158715
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Grief, Identity, and the Arts written by Bram Lambrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief, Identity and the Arts addresses the interplay between grief and identity in a broad range of artistic disciplines, historical periods, and geographical areas.

New Music Theatre in Europe

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429837372
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book New Music Theatre in Europe written by Robert Adlington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War. The ‘new music theatre’ wrought multiple, significant transformations, serving as a crucible for the experimental rethinking of theatrical traditions, artistic genres, the conventions of performance, and the composer’s relation to society. This volume brings together leading specialists from across Europe to offer a new appraisal of the genre. It is structured according to six themes that investigate: the relation of new music theatre to earlier and contemporaneous theories of drama; the use of new technologies; the relation of new music theatre to progressive politics; the role of new venues and environments; the advancement of new conceptions of the performer; and the challenges that new music theatre lays down for music analysis. Contributing authors address canonical works by composers such as Berio, Birtwistle, Henze, Kagel, Ligeti, Nono, and Zimmermann, but also expand the field to figures and artistic developments not regularly represented in existing music histories. Particular attention is given to new music theatre as a site of intense exchange – between practitioners of different art forms, across national borders, and with diverse mediating institutions.

"Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and the Absolute "

Author : Amy Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351560190
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and the Absolute " written by Amy Bauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Hungarian composer Gy?rgy Ligeti passed away in June 2006, he was widely feted as being one of the greatest composers of our time. His complete published works were recorded during his lifetime and his music continues to inspire a steady stream of performances and scholarship. Ligeti's Laments provides a critical analysis of the composer's works, considering both the compositions themselves and the larger cultural implications of their reception. Bauer both synthesizes and challenges the prevailing narratives surrounding the composer's long career and uses the theme of lament to inform a discussion of specific musical topics, including descending melodic motives, passacaglia and the influence of folk music. But Ligeti 'laments' in a larger sense; his music fuses rigour and sensuality, tradition and the new and influences from disparate high and low cultures, with a certain critical and ironic distance, reflected in his spoken commentary as well as in the substance of his music. The notions of nostalgia, exoticism and the absolute are used to relate works of different eras and genres, along with associated concepts of allegory, melancholy, contemporary subjectivity and the voice.

Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile

Author : Friedemann Sallis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554581729
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile written by Friedemann Sallis and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919–2012) György Kurtág (1926–) and Sándor Veress (1907–92). Although all three composers are of Hungarian origin, their careers followed radically different paths. Whereas, Kurtág remained in Budapest for most of his career, Anhalt and Veress left: the former in 1946 and immigrated to Canada and the latter in 1948 and settled in Switzerland. All three composers have had an extraordinary impact in the cultural environments within which their work took place. In the first section, “Place and Displacement,” contributors examine what happens when composers and their music migrate in the culturally complex world of the late twentieth century. The past one hundred years produced record numbers of refugees, and this fact is now beginning to resonate in the study of music. As Anhalt himself forcefully asserts, however, not all composers who emigrate should be understood as exiles. The first chapters of this book explore some of the problems and questions surrounding this issue. Essays in the second section, “Perspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation,” look at how performing acts of interpretation on music implies bringing the time, place, and identity of the musician, the analyst, and the teacher to bear on the object of study. Like Kodály, Kurtág considers his work to be “naturally” embedded in Hungarian culture, but he is also a quintessentially European artist. Much of his production—he is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific composers of vocal music—involves the setting of Hungarian texts, but in the late 1970s his cultural horizons expanded to include texts in Russian, German, French, English, and ancient Greek. The book explores how musicologists’ divergent cultural perspectives impinge on the interpretation of this work. The final section, “The Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music,” examines the impact time and memory can have on notions of place and identity in music. All living art taps into the personal and collective past in one way or another. The final four chapters look at various aspects of this relationship.

Metamorphosis in Music

Author : Benjamin R. Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199381992
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphosis in Music written by Benjamin R. Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metamorphosis in Music examines the evolution of compositional technique in Ligeti's works of the 1950s and 1960s. Through careful analysis of sketches, drafts, and finished scores, it reveals complex influences on the composer's creative process as he moved from the folk-inspired world of Bartók to the forefront of the avant-garde.

Music in Germany Since 1968

Author : Alastair Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521877598
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Music in Germany Since 1968 written by Alastair Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

Representation in Western Music

Author : Joshua S. Walden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702157X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Representation in Western Music written by Joshua S. Walden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles leading scholars to provide a comprehensive study of representation in music from the nineteenth century to today.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Author : Richard Steinitz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571261116
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Gyorgy Ligeti written by Richard Steinitz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating study of the life and work of György Ligeti, one of the best-loved and most original composers of our time. For 50 years György Ligeti has pursued a boldly independent and uncompromising course, yet his music is widely loved and admired. Ever since Stanley Kubrick's (unsanctioned) use of his music on the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, interest in Ligeti has extended far beyond the classical domain. He is the only living composer whose complete output, including juvenilia, is being systematically issued on CD. Published to coincide with the composer's eightieth birthday, Richard Steinitz's compelling new book is both an illuminating study of the music and its associative ideas - drawn from literature, theatre, the visual arts, fractal mathematics, ethnic cultures and other maverick composers - and of Ligeti the man. Ligeti has confided in Steinitz a mass of previously unknown biographical information. The result is an astonishing account of his early upbringing in Romania, of his terrifying yet surreal experiences in the war, and of his difficulties attempting to forge an identity as a young composer under repressive censorship in Communist Hungary, before his dramatic escape to the West in 1956. The story continues via Ligeti's association with the Western avant-garde and his increasingly masterful sequence of highly individual compositions, which Steinitz brings vividly to life through informative commentaries as well as through the composer's own words.