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György Ligeti
Ligeti: Atmosphères for orchestra, for orchestra
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Format: 297 x 420 mm
ISBN: 9783702416911
Pages: 24
ISMN: 979-0-008-02380-4
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"Atmosphères" famously overturns all traditional categories of Western classical music. There is absolutely no discernible melody, harmony is reduced to the drifting of saturated chromatic clusters, and pulse - or any sense of normal rhythmical articulation - is entirely absent. All habitual structural sign-posts are also missing as is any relationship to standard forms, despite the ghost of a recapitulation towards the work's end. Instead the listener is confronted with a slow-motion succession of textures, one oozing into the other, where the instrumental sonority seems to have more in common with the dissolves and hums of electronic music than that of a normal symphony orchestra. Tiny traces of influence can just be discerned - perhaps Debussy, a little Richard Strauss, certainly Bartok - though Ligeti's vision is of startling, indeed radical, originality. (George Benjamin)
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Atmosphères
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Release info: Suitable for study purposes only.
Type: Studienpartitur
Series: -
Languages: -
Difficulty: -
Format: 297 x 420 mm
ISBN: 9783702416911
Pages: 24
ISMN: 979-0-008-02380-4