THE ELECTRONIC WORKS OF GYÖRGY LIGETI AND THEIR ...

Patterning within Region H
Globally, the characteristic clouds of impulses set Region H apart from Region
G–but individual elements do suggest some interaction between the two contrasting
regions. While G clearly presented both level and oblique elements, some of the gestures
in Region H contain impulses that are registrally arranged to suggest a definite motion.
This is particularly evident in the first and third events. The elements labeled "gliss." in
Figure 3.19 consist of a number of compact and diffuse impulses arranged in ascending or
descending order and proceeding so quickly that they come to sound almost like a
dissevered glissando. The first event ends with a pair of downward gestures with a strong
presence from 358-268 Hz; the third event ends with a glissando trailing upwards to
around 2627 Hz. This kind of a glissando suggests not only that are there states of
mixture between the oppositional sound characteristics, which can be set against each
other in stark contrast only to meld back and forth from one to another, but that even the
categories of discrete and continuous internal transformation, which Region G presented
in clear contrast, are themselves subject to the same sort of dialectical questioning and
deconstruction into resulting states of mixture.
Stage II, Phase 2, Regions H and J:
Region J
While the sounds of Region H continue in the right channel, the left channel's
sounds segue from Region G directly into Region J. Much of Region J can be understood
as preserving the glissando-like gestures of Region G while transforming the typical
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