Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Discontent and Early Experiments (1950-56)
Chapter 2: Electronic Works (1957-58)
Chapter 3: Apparitions and Atmosphères (1958-61)
Chapter 4: Fluxus and the Absurd (1961-62)
Chapter 5: Synthesis of Technique (1962-67)
Chapter 6: Compositional Flourishing (1967-70)
Conclusion: Form and Expression at the turn of the 1970s
Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Benjamin R. Levy is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary music and has published on composers including Ligeti, Xenakis, and Feldman. He received the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award in 2011.

Reviews

"Levy points out that Ligeti was not only a composer of music for traditional instruments but also composed several electronic works and was considered somewhat of an authority on electronic music. Levy gives many examples of Ligeti's music and, more important, the sketches and thought processes Ligeti went through to create new works. The music examples show traditional and 21st-century notational techniques, and it is refreshing to see the sketches of
Ligeti's music and the unique way he notated his ideas for musical compositions." --Choice