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György Ligeti
Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds
by Louise Duchesneau, Wolfgang Marx, Boydell Press
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Boydell Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-550-9, ISBN: 1-84383-550-9

"Shortlisted for the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication. György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds - based on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices of the last 50 years. The book combines texts by former students, colleagues and friends, who re ..."

[ GYORGY LIGETI: OF FOREIGN LANDS AND STRANGE SOUNDS ] By Duchesneau, Louise ( Author) 2011 [ Hardcover ]
by Sir Paul Mccartney, Mary Mccartney, Stella Mccartney, Louise Duchesneau, Stella Paul, Annie Rigg, Paul Sella
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Boydell Press
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-85783-067-8, ISBN: 0-85783-067-8

"Gyorgy Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds offers a new assessment of a composer whose constant exploration of new sound worlds - based on the musics of different cultures and ages - contributed in crucial ways to making him one of the most important musical voices of the last 50 years. The book combines texts by former students, colleagues and friends, who reflect on different and so far unknown aspects of Ligeti's persona, wit ..."

The Voice of the Muse
A Study of the Role of Inspiration in Musical Composition (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes)
by Louise Duchesneau
Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 1986 by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-13: 978-3-8204-9394-8, ISBN: 3-8204-9394-8

"What is musical inspiration? How is it triggered and what are its effects? In attempting to shed light on these and related questions, the author investigates the sources of composers' inspirations as revealed in their own writings. In the resulting typology three general sources of inspiration are proposed: a metaphysical-religious (the inspiration from ABOVE), a psychological-physiological (the inspiration from INSIDE) and finally a s ..."

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