Listening Chart 27 Ligeti, Lux aeterna
Ligeti, Lux aeterna
7 min., 54 sec.
| 0:00 | WOMEN’S VOICES | Single pitch, high voices (Lu) |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 2:36 | The sound expands downward. | ||
| 3:04 | More lower voices; higher men’s voices drop out; |
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| 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) |
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| The sound contracts downward to a lengthy focus, | |||
| 5:33 | ultimately to a single pitch. | ||
| 5:45 | Complex sound — low voices (Domine) |
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| 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. |
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| Sound contracts downward to . . . | |||
| 7:30 | a two- |