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"Atmosphères" famously overturns all traditional categories of Western classical music. There is absolutely no discernible melody, harmony is reduced to the drifting of saturated chromatic clusters, and pulse - or any sense of normal rhythmical articulation - is entirely absent. All habitual structural sign-posts are also missing as is any relationship to standard forms, despite the ghost of a recapitulation towards the work's end. Instead the listener is confronted with a slow-motion succession of textures, one oozing into the other, where the instrumental sonority seems to have more in common with the dissolves and hums of electronic music than that of a normal symphony orchestra. Tiny traces of influence can just be discerned - perhaps Debussy, a little Richard Strauss, certainly Bartok - though Ligeti's vision is of startling, indeed radical, originality. (George Benjamin)Instrumentation:for orchestra

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Title category Books in German Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik Musik Musik - Allgemeines

• Full title: Atmosph?res
• Subtitle: für Orchester. Studienpartitur.
• Author: György Ligeti
• Language: German
• Binding: Sheet music
• EAN: 9783702416911
• ISBN: 3702416919
• ID: 20103783
• Publisher: Universal Edition
• Weight: 209 g
• Dimensions: 409 × 291 × 5 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. June 2000

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