György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque

by Peter Edwards

Book Overview

As the first book in English solely dedicated to discussion of Gy rgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996), this study offers new perspectives on the opera's ambiguous music-dramatic identity in the context of musical postmodernism. Peter Edwards draws on a range of modernist and postmodernist theories to explore the collision of past styles and genre models in the opera, its expressive states and its engagement with the grotesque...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147245698X
• ISBN13: 9781472456984
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"