How Long to Read György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque

How Long Does it Take to Read György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 36 minutes to read György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque by Peter Edwards

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Description

György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed by Ligeti as an ‘anti-anti-opera’, the piece is a highly ambiguous, apocalyptic fable about the human condition, fear of death and the final judgement. As the first book in English solely dedicated to discussion of this work, György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque offers new perspectives on the opera’s musico-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. This is ably supported by musical analysis and extensive study of Ligeti’s sketch materials held at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. Edwards’s analyses culminate in a new approach to examining the opera’s rich multiplicities, the composition of the musical material and the nature of Ligeti’s relationship with the musical past. This is a key reference work in the fields of musical modernism and postmodernism, opera studies and the music of Ligeti.

How long is György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque?

György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque by Peter Edwards is 154 pages long, and a total of 39,116 words.

This makes it 52% the length of the average book. It also has 48% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 33 minutes to read György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque aloud.

What Reading Level is György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque?

György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre: Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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