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György Ligeti

Continuum (Ligeti)

Continuum for harpsichord is a musical composition by György Ligeti composed in 1968, and dedicated to the contemporary harpsichordist, Antoinette Vischer. The composer describes the conception and

Sources#

  • Bauer, Amy (2004). “‘Tone-Color, Movement, Changing Harmonic Planes’: Cognition, Constraints and Conceptual Blends”, The Pleasure of Modernist Music. University of Rochester Press. .
  • Ligeti in Conversation. Cited in Bauer.
  • Sass (1992). Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought. New York: Basic Books. Cited in Bauer.
  • Amazon.com (2007) Amazon.com: Ligeti: Mechanical Music: Music: Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre Charial, Jürgen Hocker, Françoise Terrioux (accessed April 14, 2007)
  • Ligeti, György, Péter Várnai, Josef Häusler, and Claude Samuel. György Ligeti in Conversation with Péter Várnai, Josef Häusler, Claude Samuel, and Himself. London: Eulenburg, 1983.
  • “Jede zeitliche Folge von Tönen, Klängen, musikalischen Gestalten” hat Rhythmus. Über die Rhythmik in Ligetis Cembalostück Continuum von Peter Petersen, 2008, PDF on: www.saitenspiel.org
Composer
György Ligeti