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György Ligeti - Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (Hardcover)
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György Ligeti - Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (Hardcover)
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The combination of new insights into Ligeti by people who knew him
with new analytical approaches will make this a core publication
not only for Ligeti scholars, but also for readers interested in
post-war music history and in Hungarian culture. Shortlisted for
the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication. György
Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment
of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds- based
on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in
crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices
of the last 50 years. The book combines texts by former students,
colleagues and friends, who reflect on different and so far unknown
aspects of Ligeti's persona, with new musicological interpretations
of his style and several of his main works. Among the contributors
are some of the most eminent Ligeti scholars, including Richard
Steinitz and Paul Griffiths. Louise Duchesneau, Ligeti's assistant
of over 20 years, acts not only as contributor but also as
co-editor of the volume. Many of the musicological chapters are
based on studies of Ligeti's sketches, which are now housed by the
Paul Sacher Foundation in Basle and were made available for
research only recently. Two close collaborators representing
disciplines which deeply interested Ligeti - Heinz-Otto Peitgen (a
mathematician who introduced Ligeti to fractal geometry, which
influenced many if his works since 1985) and Simha Arom (an
ethnomusicologist who acquainted Ligeti with the complex rhythmic
patters of the music of Sub-saharan Africa) - also reflect on the
composer for the very first time in writing. The combination of new
insights into Ligeti by people who knew him with new analytical
approaches will make this a core publication not only for Ligeti
scholars, but also for readers interested in music of the second
half of the twentieth century and in Hungarian culture. WOLFGANG
MARX is Lecturer in Music, University College Dublin. LOUISE
DUCHESNEAU was Ligeti's assistant for 20 years Contributors: SIMHA
AROM, JONATHAN W. BERNARD, CIARÁN CRILLY, LOUISE DUCHESNEAU,
BENJAMIN DWYER, TIBORC FAZEKAS, PAUL GRIFFITHS, ILDIKÓ
MÁNDI-FAZEKAS, WOLFGANG MARX, HEINZ-OTTO PEITGEN, FRIEDEMANN
SALLIS, WOLFGANG-ANDREAS SCHULTZ, MANFRED STAHNKE, RICHARD STEINITZ
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