Benjamin R. Levy is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary music and has published on composers including Ligeti, Xenakis, and Feldman. He received the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award in 2011.

Levys work provides countless insights into Ligetis music, its aesthetics, and its mechanics. He has convinced this reviewer that Ligetis sketches are essential in understanding Ligetis compositionalproject. If Levy has plans to write a second bookon Ligetis music after 1970his efforts would be much welcomed and greatly appreciated.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Discontent and Early Experiments (1950-56) Chapter 2: Electronic Works (1957-58) Chapter 3: Apparitions and Atmosphères (1958-61) Chapter 4: Fluxus and the Absurd (1961-62) Chapter 5: Synthesis of Technique (1962-67) Chapter 6: Compositional Flourishing (1967-70) Conclusion: Form and Expression at the turn of the 1970s Bibliography Index

Benjamin R. Levy is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary music and has published on composers including Ligeti, Xenakis, and Feldman. He received the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award in 2011.

Levys work provides countless insights into Ligetis music, its aesthetics, and its mechanics. He has convinced this reviewer that Ligetis sketches are essential in understanding Ligetis compositionalproject. If Levy has plans to write a second bookon Ligetis music after 1970his efforts would be much welcomed and greatly appreciated.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Discontent and Early Experiments (1950-56) Chapter 2: Electronic Works (1957-58) Chapter 3: Apparitions and Atmosphères (1958-61) Chapter 4: Fluxus and the Absurd (1961-62) Chapter 5: Synthesis of Technique (1962-67) Chapter 6: Compositional Flourishing (1967-70) Conclusion: Form and Expression at the turn of the 1970s Bibliography Index

Benjamin R. Levy is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary music and has published on composers including Ligeti, Xenakis, and Feldman. He received the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar Award in 2011.

Levys work provides countless insights into Ligetis music, its aesthetics, and its mechanics. He has convinced this reviewer that Ligetis sketches are essential in understanding Ligetis compositionalproject. If Levy has plans to write a second bookon Ligetis music after 1970his efforts would be much welcomed and greatly appreciated.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Discontent and Early Experiments (1950-56) Chapter 2: Electronic Works (1957-58) Chapter 3: Apparitions and Atmosphères (1958-61) Chapter 4: Fluxus and the Absurd (1961-62) Chapter 5: Synthesis of Technique (1962-67) Chapter 6: Compositional Flourishing (1967-70) Conclusion: Form and Expression at the turn of the 1970s Bibliography Index