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Artikulation

Composer
Ligeti György
Original / Hungarian title
Artikulation
Foreign language / English title
Artikulation
Subtitle
Electronic music
Year of composition
1958
Type
Electroacoustic music
Instrumentation
tape (4-track A-DAT)
Duration
4 min
Premiere information
25 March 1958, WDR "Musik der Zeit", Cologne, Germany;
Publisher / Source
Schott Music:

- An Aural Score (Edition with CD, score in 4 colours with diagrams, sketches, foreword in German and English by Rainer Wehinger) © 1970, ED 6378-20

- 4-colour poster of the score in 68 cm X 96 cm format: ED 6378-10

- Performance material on hire
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Recordings
Wergo CD WER 60161, 1993
Teldec CD 8573-88262-2, 2004
1 min. sample
1 Artikulation
Remarks, other info
Artikulation is an eletronic composition. Ligeti composed it in January-February 1958 and it´s realization in sound took place in February-March 1958, in cooperation with Gottfried Michael Koenig and (in part) Cornelius Cardew, at the Studio of Electronic Music of the West German Radio (WDR) in Cologne. The original version is for four tracks, but a two-track version also exists.
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Teldec
Ligeti, György: Continuum; Pieces (10) for Wind Quintet; Artikulation; Glissandi; Study for Organ no 1 "Harmonies"; Volumina Wergo
Wergo
Wolke Verlag