Inaudible Structures, Audible Music

Ligeti's Problem, and His Solution

Bibliographic Data

ID4315745
AuthorsJonathan W Bernard (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume6
Issue3
Pages207
Publication date1987-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMusic Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0262-5245 • E-ISSN: 1468-2249
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/854203
OpenAlexW2324464057
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Not long after his emigration to the West in 1956, Gy6rgy Ligeti decided to challenge a well-established compositional trend. Ligeti is known today as one of a relatively small number of composers who in the late 1950s sought viable alternatives to post-Webernian serialism, and it is no exaggeration to say that, nowadays, when aside from a handful of undisputed masterpieces much of what was written during the serialist era seems hopelessly dated, Ligeti's music from about the same time sounds as fresh and original as ever. His career affords the music analyst the opportunity to study one composer's turning away from serialism: the nature of his objections, their implications for the further development of his technique, and the way in which the methods he arrived at achieve a meaningful organization of musical materials. This article discusses these issues and proposes analytic approaches designed to engage Ligeti's solution to problems of musical composition in what turned out to be the postserialist era

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