Review Of Gyorgi Ligeti's Danse Macarbei
Beginning of paper
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 toge ....
Middle of paper
.... Perhaps this is a bit of editorial
from the composer himself on big-band music in general? The marching band ushers
in the beginning of the end, gaining speed and volume. The texture of the piece
grows with the addition 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 amalgam ....
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