Gyorgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque (Paperback)

Contents: List of Plates List of Tables List of Musical Examples Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1 An Anti-Anti-Opera 2 A Conception of Musico-Dramatic Form 3 Arias, ‘Leit-Characteristics’ and Expressive States 4 Allusion and Transformation 5 Stylistic Dissonance and the Collage6 Resisting Closure: The Passacaglia Finale 7 From Electronic Music to Music Theatre 8 A Musical Grotesque Select Bibliography Index