Listening Chart 27 Ligeti, Lux aeterna

Ligeti, Lux aeterna

7 min., 54 sec.

0:00 WOMEN’S VOICES Single pitch, high voices (Lu) image
The sound expands, up and down.
1:39 A high pitch is added softly: SOPRANO.
2:02 The sound contracts upward, ending in . . . a single pitch (octave). image
2:22 a single pitch (octave).
2:28 MEN’S VOICES The high pitch stops, replaced by a chord (Domine) in the high men’s voices. image
2:36 The sound expands downward.
3:04 More lower voices; higher men’s voices drop out; image
the sound slowly “focuses” to . . .
3:58 a held, dissonant chord.
4:03 MEN AND WOMEN Complex sound, f (with a clear high, low, middle) image
The sound contracts downward to a lengthy focus,
5:33 ultimately to a single pitch.
5:45 Complex sound — low voices (Domine) image
Sound expands, up.
6:13 A high note is added: SOPRANO.
6:43 The high note is dropped, replaced by a very low note: BASS. image
Sound contracts downward to . . .
7:30 a two-note dissonant chord.