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This work is the first since his emigration to the West in which Ligeti explored the structural implications of a composition with more than two movements, and he has revealed in program notes and interviews that each of the Quartet's five movements follows the same formal plan, although on the surface they display widely different characteristics of expression and technique. After analyzing the movements individually in detail, it is shown that a series of fourteen stages occurs in each one.","Following a brief biographical portrait of Ligeti both before and after his emigration, the second chapter examines the general features of his musical syntax. Special attention is paid to two of his articles, Metamorphoses of Musical Form, and States, Events, Transformations, in which he discusses some of the influential factors upon his style, as well as its main characteristics. The third chapter discusses the general harmonic and rhythmic considerations within the Second String Quartet, as well as the various methods used to analyze the harmonic and rhythmic transformations. The fourth chapter proceeds with a detailed, objective analysis of each movement. Chapter five is more subjective in character, describing the fourteen-stage formal plan and how it is manifested within each movement.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:15:15Z (GMT). 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