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Review Of Gyorgi Ligeti's Danse Macarbei - Research Paper

Review Of Gyorgi Ligeti's Danse Macarbei

This piece is a lesson in polytonality, dissonance, and complexity. The
first thing heard is an imitation of a car horn that seems designed to grab hold
of the listener. If I were inattentive before this piece, I certainly was wide
awake when it was over. Ligeti seems to have sculpted a piece together from bits
and pieces of other musical styles: a sort of modern-art approach to music. The
violins tuning without a care in the first few moments, the slow mock continuo
of the highly dissonant bassoon counterpoint, and the later high pitch of a
clarinet all seem to be broad, bold strokes on a canvas of sound. Ideas come
floating to the front of the imaginary "stage", and drop back behind ...

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of another instrument every few measures. After a short
build, the threshold of noise is reached. All of the instruments of the band and
orchestra are playing at their highest volume, playing solos of a mixture of
styles, in a polyrhythmic soup of sound. The peak of this amalgamation is
reached, and the slow, almost drunken marching band pulls us away, towards the
end of the ...

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Added: 7/24/2008 03:57:08 PM
Category: Music & Musicians
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 279
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