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    Words and Music

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    This document discusses Gyorgy Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals, which set nonsensical texts to music. It provides an overview of each of the six movements, noting how Ligeti uses techniques like word painting, motifs, and text disassembly. Specific examples are given from movements like "Three Dreams and Little Bat" that illustrate how the music depicts elements of the text. Ligeti draws on texts from Lewis Carroll, manipulating words and their interactions across voices.

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    This document discusses Gyorgy Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals, which set nonsensical texts to music. It provides an overview of each of the six movements, noting how Ligeti uses techniques like word painting, motifs, and text disassembly. Specific examples are given from movements like "Three Dreams and Little Bat" that illustrate how the music depicts elements of the text. Ligeti draws on texts from Lewis Carroll, manipulating words and their interactions across voices.

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    This document discusses Gyorgy Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals, which set nonsensical texts to music. It provides an overview of each of the six movements, noting how Ligeti uses techniques like word painting, motifs, and text disassembly. Specific examples are given from movements like "Three Dreams and Little Bat" that illustrate how the music depicts elements of the text. Ligeti draws on texts from Lewis Carroll, manipulating words and their interactions across voices.

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    Words and Music

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    Brodie McCash
    This document discusses Gyorgy Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals, which set nonsensical texts to music. It provides an overview of each of the six movements, noting how Ligeti uses techniques like word painting, motifs, and text disassembly. Specific examples are given from movements like "Three Dreams and Little Bat" that illustrate how the music depicts elements of the text. Ligeti draws on texts from Lewis Carroll, manipulating words and their interactions across voices.

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    GYOGY LIGETI –

    NONSENSE MADRIGALS
    How Ligeti uses Text and Word Painting
    THE NONSENSE MADRIGALS

     General information
     1 – Two Dreams and Little Bat
     2 – Cuckoo in the Pear Tree
     3 – The Alphabet
     4 – Flying Robert
     5 – The Lobster Quadrille
     6 – A Long Sad Tale
    GENERAL OBSERVATIONS MOV 2-5

     Cuckoo in the Pear Tree – ‘cuckoo’ motif #

     The Alphabet – dissembling of alphabet


    GENERAL OBSERVATIONS MOVEMENTS 4-5

    Flying Robert – Whistling


    - unusual phrase length


    The Lobster Quadrille –

    use of phrase ‘will you walk a little faster’
    THREE DREAMS AND LITTLE BAT

     Three texts

     Division of parts

     Word Painting
    THREE DREAMS A LITTLE BAT:
    WORD PAINTING

     “Hot cross buns” & “eating hot coal” – Baritone I and II

     “Little drummer boys…” – Baritone II

     “I dreamt running” – Tutti

     Alto/ Baritone interaction using text


    A LONG SAD TALE

     Both texts written by Carroll from two different sources

     Doublets example –
     HEAD
     HEAL
     TEAL
     TELL
     TALL
     TAIL
    A LONG SAD TALE CONTD.

     Ligeti’s use of the words and interaction between texts.,

     Text from “A Mouse’s Tale” and Doublet – Head-Tail

     Ostinato like

     Descending line for repeated word ‘sad’

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