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Requiem (Ligeti)

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The Requiem by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti is a large-scale choral and orchestral composition, composed between 1963 and 1965. [1]

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  1. 65 relations: Barbie (film), Bass clarinet, Bass drum, Bass trumpet, Bassoon, Berlin Philharmonic, Brass instrument, Celesta, Cello, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film), Choir, Clapper (musical instrument), Clarinet, Contrabass clarinet, Contrabassoon, Cor anglais, Dies irae, Double bass, Dynamics (music), E-flat clarinet, Flute, Francis Travis, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, French horn, Glockenspiel, Godzilla (2014 film), Gong, György Ligeti, Harp, Harpsichord, Hungarians, Introit, Johannes Ockeghem, Jonathan Nott, Keyboard instrument, Kyrie, Lacrimosa, London Voices, Mezzo-soprano, Michael Gielen, Micropolyphony, Oboe, Orchestra, Péter Eötvös, Percussion instrument, Piccolo, Polyphony, Requiem, Snare drum, Soprano, ... Expand index (15 more) »

  2. 1965 compositions
  3. Compositions by György Ligeti
  4. Requiems

Barbie (film)

Barbie is a 2023 fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig from a screenplay she wrote with Noah Baumbach.

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Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.

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Bass drum

The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.

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Bass trumpet

The bass trumpet is a type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Berlin Philharmonic

The Berlin Philharmonic (italic) is a German orchestra based in Berlin.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Celesta

The celesta or celeste, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Clapper (musical instrument)

A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Contrabass clarinet

The contrabass clarinet (also pedal clarinet, after the pedals of pipe organs) and contra-alto clarinet are the two largest members of the clarinet family that are in common usage.

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Contrabassoon

The contrabassoon, also known as the double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon, sounding an octave lower.

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Cor anglais

The cor anglais (or original; plural: cors anglais) Longman has /kɔːz/ for British and /kɔːrz/ for American -->, or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.

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Dies irae

"italic" ("the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome. Requiem (Ligeti) and Dies irae are Requiems.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Dynamics (music)

In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.

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E-flat clarinet

The E-flat (E) clarinet is a member of the clarinet family, smaller than the more common flat clarinet and pitched a perfect fourth higher.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Francis Travis

Francis Travis (9 July 1921 – 28 April 2017) was an American-born Swiss orchestral conductor.

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Frankfurt Radio Symphony

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony (hr-Sinfonieorchester) is the radio orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk, the public broadcasting network of the German state of Hesse.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Glockenspiel

The glockenspiel (or,: bells and: play) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.

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Godzilla (2014 film)

Godzilla is a 2014 American monster film directed by Gareth Edwards.

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Gong

A gongFrom Indonesian and gong; ꦒꦺꦴꦁ gong; p; どら|dora; គង kong; ฆ้อง khong; cồng chiêng; কাঁহ kãh is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

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Introit

The Introit is part of the opening of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations.

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Johannes Ockeghem

Johannes Ockeghem (– 6 February 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music.

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Jonathan Nott

Jonathan Nott (born 25 December 1962, in Solihull, England) is an English conductor.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.

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Kyrie

, a transliteration of Greek Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (Kyrios), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the.

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Lacrimosa

The Lacrimosa (Latin for "weeping/tearful"), also a name that derives from Our Lady of Sorrows, a title given to The Virgin Mary, is part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Catholic Requiem Mass.

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London Voices

London Voices is a London-based choral ensemble founded by Terry Edwards (1939–2022) in 1973.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Michael Gielen

Michael Andreas Gielen (20 July 19278 March 2019) was an Austrian conductor and composer known for promoting contemporary music in opera and concert.

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Micropolyphony

Micropolyphony is a kind of polyphonic musical texture developed by György Ligeti, which consists of many lines of dense canons moving at different tempos or rhythms, thus resulting in tone clusters.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Péter Eötvös

Péter Eötvös (Eötvös Péter,; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Requiem

A Requiem (Latin: rest) or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal. Requiem (Ligeti) and Requiem are Requiems.

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Snare drum

The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.

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String section

The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.

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Suspended cymbal

Classical suspended cymbal A suspended cymbal is any single cymbal played with a stick or beater rather than struck against another cymbal.

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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester) is a Swedish radio orchestra based in Stockholm, affiliated with Sveriges Radio (Sweden's Radio).

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills".

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American director, producer, writer, animator, and illustrator.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne

The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (German: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln) is a German radio orchestra based in Cologne, where the orchestra mainly performs at two concert halls: the WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz and the Kölner Philharmonie.

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Woodwind instrument

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.

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Xylophone

The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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See also

1965 compositions

Compositions by György Ligeti

Requiems

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_(Ligeti)

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