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Essay Galaxy - Review of Gyorgi Ligeti's Danse Macarbei
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 newer
themes.
The percussion also adds considerably to the complexity of the piece i....
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