Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

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These virtual auditory images can be heard as sounding analogies of

states, events and transformations perceptible in the outer world, changes

in movement, distance, light, color and texture. Ligeti's Atmospheres evoke

the illusion of a virtual space in the listening mind.

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Livre pour Orchestre - A space of motion and emotion

In Livre pour Orchestre (1968), scored for 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3

bassoons, 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion, celesta, harp,

piano and strings, Witold Lutoslawski creates a musical continuum diffe-

rent from the continua of Metastasis, Apparitions, Atmospheres and Pitho-

prakta. This is a music of strong gestures, expressive in character and closer

to the musical forms of the classical tradition.

The title reflects Lutoslawski's idea of writing a "book for orchestra" as