Easy listening Ligeti piece for beginners

[@Telluride7324]

I love it when master composers have a moment of humility and create simpler, super easy pieces like this one that invite the novice in and allow us all to enjoy performing their work.

[@johnryskamp2943]

Well, this guy is no master composer. Are you deaf?

[@RyanPower]

​@@johnryskamp2943and who are you john?

[@Telluride7324]

@@johnryskamp2943 well this was a joke to start, but I do believe Ligeti would be considered among the most important modern composers. Oh, also no, I’m not deaf.

[@G8tr1522]

😂😂😂😂 i honestly don't know how to even read some of those passages.

[@mobilephil244]

Super easy ?

[@WhiteTreeRightful]

I think this is what auditory processing disorder is like

[@G8tr1522]

💀

[@violaisreallycool]

The random but slightly offset accents give this piece a weird sort of quasi-swung feeling?

[@brodieainsworthmusic]

I thought so too, it’s some fun syncopation

[@benkopal]

thanks for posting this! so long I listened to this only when listening through at least book one of the études. hearing it in its own made me realize how similar it is to Bartók's From the diary of a fly (Mikrokosmos No. 142).

[@alans98989]

As far as the piano etudes go, Fanfares, Fem, and Arc-en-ciel might be better for beginners. L'escalier du diable and Automne a Varsovie are my personal favorites though.

[@adamsmith7058]

A very romantic piece that evokes the bitter sweet emotions of one's first love...

[@melonica90]

I know you don't do joke.

[@dzordzszs]

What kinda first love did u have lol

[@adamsmith7058]

@@dzordzszs Difficult.

[@dzordzszs]

@@adamsmith7058 Given what you said, I'm not surprised

[@N____er]

I cant be the only one who cant make sense of this right?

[@chrisoconnor9521]

Not alone, I'm baffled af.

[@Skryabinist]

Can't make sense of it, but it's really pleasant to listen to! 😊

[@DeflatingAtheism]

Judging from the thumbnail photo, Ligeti couldn’t either.

[@SuperheroChuck]

For most of the piece, one hand is holding down a set of piano keys while the other hand plays a pattern over them. The pattern includes some of the keys that are held down, so those don't make a sound when they're played; there's just a blank space there. It sounds almost the same as if those held-down notes were not played at all, but having one hand "play" them as part of a pattern tightens up the rhythm a bit, and keeps the piece moving with this really cool stuttering feeling. As far as the notes themselves, this isn't really a piece with a definable melody. There are patterns of notes, to be sure, but it's not something you'll walk away humming. Think of it more as like a percussion piece.

[@normanbates429]

È la musica, mio caro

[@FranciscoElena-u5j]

Muy interesante

[@ЮрийСмелов-и1й]

"Цель музыки - трогать сердца" И.С.Бах 😂

[@Fritz1457]

oh boy do I love Ligeti and Kurtág

[@MNorbert89]

When your cat walks on the keys...

[@LeanneHolloway-cy2uo]

💕 ligeti

[@claudiomonteverdi7126]

this is fairly complex already and not that pleasant compared to other pieces by Ligeti. I think that Musica Ricercata is way more accessible, as well as the six bagatelles for wind quintet (which reuse material from Musica Ricercata)

[@claudiomonteverdi7126]

Then Lux Aeterna is definitely a must listen

[@jessevallejo8797]

Definitely Musica RIcercata no. 7.

[@SergeyHod]

А здесь вполне четко прослушиваются венгерские интонации. Между прочим. И сыграть это не так уж и сложно. Вопрос, как было справедливо отмечено, в квазискачках.

[@buckohoh]

damn i wish I could play it on my digital piano 😢

[@Scriabin_fan]

This piece is so beautiful.

[@yeetthebeet]

ligeti was a genius

[@Qazwdx111]

simp

[@cosmicsans3275]

Any music experts here who can interpret this?

[@hisky.]

it just sounds cool and like a haunted house just listen and enjoy don't need to interpret

[@Medtner26]

Imagine someone practicing on a very bad piano that has some keys that don’t work anymore or that keep getting stuck after playing them. An otherwise fluent sounding piece will become very clunky. That’s the image this piece is trying to evoke.

[@johnryskamp2943]

Yes, it's a clone of a Mikrokosmos piece.

[@theresia.d143]

For the first time, I am listening to his requiem and it gave me trauma. 😂😂

[@jessicaeskebk5945]

Man I don’t listen to enough ligeti

[@choiyatlam2552]

Ligeti's etudes for piano. Learnt a lot from those as a composer. Still suck for me though.

[@rubecube5218]

How do you read this?

[@melonica90]

rely on my sense

[@RyanPower]

the same way you read any music, hold down the silent notes (diamond noteheads) in the left hand and play the rest normally - the small noteheads will not sound as the left hand is already holding these notes

[@p.g.wallychopin]

Easy listening? Is it a joke? Only could be relatively easy because it's a short piece, but it's still not pleasant to listen to.

[@carbonmonoxide5052]

Compared to other Ligeti works, yeah this is easy listening.

[@p.g.wallychopin]

@@carbonmonoxide5052 Well... Yes. But I hate Ligeti music in general, even the pieces more easy listening.

[@Flatscores]

Really baited the normies in with this title.

[@peter5.056]

I think this is crazy, but then I listen to my improvisations and stand corrected.

[@CookieMasterRBLX]

this sucks!

[@popmushee]

XD

[@thepotatoportal69]

It's an etude, which is a piece for improving or showing off technique, so naturally it's very complicated. This makes it difficult to listen to, but personally I like it. It's an acquired musical taste.

[@nikol4y.l]

'If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.'

[@hisky.]

​@@minghaolu2505 wait did you read the quote properly?

[@KingstonCzajkowski]

@@minghaolu2505 You completely misunderstood the original quote. Read again.

[@Klimperenie]

There is no musical Idea in this "work"

[@SpaghettiToaster]

There is: whole-tone scale.

[@SuperheroChuck]

You are incorrect, there's a very definite musical idea. For most of the piece, one hand is holding down a set of piano keys while the other hand plays a pattern over them. The pattern includes some of the keys that are held down, so those don't make a sound when they're played; there's just a blank space there. It sounds almost the same as if those held-down notes were not played at all, but having one hand "play" them as part of a pattern tightens up the rhythm a bit, and keeps the piece moving with this really cool stuttering feeling. As far as the notes themselves, this isn't really a piece with a definable melody. There are patterns of notes, to be sure, but it's not something you'll walk away humming. Think of it more as like a percussion piece.

[@Klimperenie]

@@SuperheroChuckYou are right, there is an idea, but it isn`t a musical one, This is the same as you will find in 12-tone-music, there is a kind of system, but it ignores musical sense. Pattern of piano keys are a system, but these patterns don`t produce music, the< are patterns of keys.

[@MatheusKulik]

@@Klimperenie what do you mean by "musical idea"?

[@SuperheroChuck]

@@Klimperenie Like I said, it's basically a percussion piece. The music is in the rhythm. The middle section with all the asymmetrical meter calls back to the dance rhythms of the Hungarian folk music that was so influential on Ligeti's work (and Bartok's before him). The ideas here are musical, whether or not you say so. Believe it or not, I generally agree with your assessment of the 12-tone system. It tends to produce music that is unintelligible. But that's not what's going on here. This piece is very intelligible, if you treat it as a percussion piece rather than expecting it to have conventional melodies and harmonies. Whether or not you *like* it is a matter of taste, but saying it's "not music" is pretty dumb.