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Ligeti composed over 80 concert works. Several of them employed microtonal techniques in small or large ways. Let us document them here.

== ~~In symphonic music~~ ==

== Large ensembles ==

* The [[wikipedia:Hamburg_Concerto|Hamburg Concerto]] uses 4 natural horns with different fundamentals to achieve a xenharmonic effect, described by Ligeti as "weird" and "harmonies [...] that had never been used before".

* [[wikipedia:Ramifications_(Ligeti)|Ramifications]] is scored for two string sections tuned a quarter-tone apart.

* [[wikipedia:Violin_Concerto_(Ligeti)|Violin Concerto]], which bears a fuller analysis of microtonal techniques, includes scordatura section tuning, natural harmonics, and 4 ocarinas.

~~Two sections tuned a quarter-tone apart~~

== Chamber ensembles ==

~~== Works~~ for ~~harpsichord~~ in ~~meantone ==~~

* In Six Bagatelles, movement 3, for wind quintet, the rhythmic ostinato that begins in other instruments is modified to use the 7th partial when taken over by the horn.

== Solo ==

~~Chaconne~~, ~~I believe~~.

* Passacaglia Ungherese for solo harpsichord specifies a preferred tuning of some type of [[Meantone|meantone temperament]]. The greater consonance of the 3rds and 6ths is structurally essential to the composition, which "a two-bar canon [that] produces an interval cycle composed entirely of major thirds and minor sixths that includes all twelve tones [https://escholarship.org/content/qt5xn297x9/qt5xn297x9_noSplash_22b8b84fa4b418a3832b30e5f1258d6a.pdf (Amy Bauer, "Codes, Constraints, and the Loss of Control in Ligeti’s Keyboard Works"]).

~~== Use of 7th partial for horn ==~~

~~In Six Bagatelles.~~

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 Ligeti composed over 80 concert works. Several of them employed microtonal techniques in small or large ways. Let us document them here.
-== In symphonic music ==
+== Large ensembles ==
+* The [[wikipedia:Hamburg_Concerto|Hamburg Concerto]] uses 4 natural horns with different fundamentals to achieve a xenharmonic effect, described by Ligeti as "weird" and "harmonies [...] that had never been used before".
+* [[wikipedia:Ramifications_(Ligeti)|Ramifications]] is scored for two string sections tuned a quarter-tone apart.
+* [[wikipedia:Violin_Concerto_(Ligeti)|Violin Concerto]], which bears a fuller analysis of microtonal techniques, includes scordatura section tuning, natural harmonics, and 4 ocarinas.
-Two sections tuned a quarter-tone apart
+== Chamber ensembles ==
-== Works for harpsichord in meantone ==
+* In Six Bagatelles, movement 3, for wind quintet, the rhythmic ostinato that begins in other instruments is modified to use the 7th partial when taken over by the horn.
+== Solo ==
-Chaconne, I believe.
+* Passacaglia Ungherese for solo harpsichord specifies a preferred tuning of some type of [[Meantone|meantone temperament]]. The greater consonance of the 3rds and 6ths is structurally essential to the composition, which  "a two-bar canon [that] produces an interval cycle composed entirely of major thirds and minor sixths that includes all twelve tones [https://escholarship.org/content/qt5xn297x9/qt5xn297x9_noSplash_22b8b84fa4b418a3832b30e5f1258d6a.pdf (Amy Bauer, "Codes, Constraints, and the Loss of Control in Ligeti’s Keyboard Works"]).
-== Use of 7th partial for horn ==
-In Six Bagatelles.
 [[Category:Composers]]