Polyphony Technique Analysis Of Ligeti

In the20th century,The style of composers has a huge changes than last Century, the complex of Mode n tonality and chord structure instead of the past basic system of natural sounds techniques, The20th century in western music is an age characterized by multiple styles,and various genres. After the end of World War II, the composers becoming more interested experiments with different music structure, style and so on, appeared a lot of different genres and different styles of music works. After1945, according to the traditional style of the composer continued writing less and less, and accordingly there has been a large number of composers, famous experiment with a variety of music, including the most representative composers Messiaen, Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ligeti, Nono, John Cage, Berio etc.. They seemed has a long distance with19th century tradition romanticism, but affects the mainstream of the western music development. Among them, the Hungarian composer Ligeti is one of the most influential composers music in the West after the end of World War II.Ligeti created a lot of great music works in his life,his creative ideas and techniques has made tremendous contributions to the music of20th century. Ligeti’s Creative journey is constantly exploring, bring forth new ideas, pursuing the road of musical development, from early exposure to using Romanian folk music and tonal music, then proposed the theory of "micro polyphonic" composition techniques, applied in his masterpiece "the atmosphere","Requiem" and other works, make it more expanded influence of this technique. the technique has gradually become an important new family members of polyphony technology in the20th century, many Chinese and foreign composers have put this technique as a new means of expression used in their music creation. It has experienced another change in the late periods of Ligeti. Using the rhythm as key point to music works of performance,developing a complex Polyphonic rhythm techniques.This paper take the polyphonic music of Ligeti as the research object, mainly introduces Ligeti’s life and important productions,discussed the uses of polytonality counterpoint and Mixed techniques, the features of rhythm counterpoint to rich polyphonic texture expression, and application of Ostinato, Canon polyphonic techniques and so on the form of Polyphony music. Through its representative polyphonic forms of technical analysis, innovation and technical features of polyphonic form in the creation of Ligety.