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Ligeti is from
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Hungary
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Ligeti Grew up in
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kolozsvar
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Ligeti first studied at the
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Kolozsvar Conservatory
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Ligeti's initial studies were interrupted
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because he was forced to do labor corps duties because of the nazis
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Ligeti's bro was sent to
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Mathausen
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Liget's parents
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sent to Auschwitz (mom survived)
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Ligeti after the war
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continued studies at the academy of Music in Budapest
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Ligeti taught at
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the Academy of Music in Budapest
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Ligeti fled West
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To escape the grip of the soviets on the arts
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Ligeti became involved in avant guarde music
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at darmstadt and cologne
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Ligeti learned these techniques
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total serialism and electronic music
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Electronic music effected Ligeti's
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approach to orchestra music
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ligeti's second teaching position
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music academy of stockholm
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ligeti experiments with
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microtonal developments
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waning of avant guarde caused ligeti to
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change his style to more traditional techniques
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atmospheres
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ligeti
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premiere of atmospheres
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germany, swf symphony, hans rosbaud cond.
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orchestration of atmospheres
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double winds, piano, strings
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atmospheres same name
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earlier unfinished electronic piece by ligeti. not musically related, but did develop some of the same concepts (sound masses)
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Sound masses
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Ligeti. Music that concetrates on more or less indeterminate clouds of sound built on complete verical collections of the 12 tones.
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later ligeti developed
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a language of microtonal clusters.
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ligeti first introduced microtonal clusters
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independently but at the same time as xenakis, pendercki, and stockhausen
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ligeti gained international reputation from
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apparitions
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apparitions lead ligeti to a more
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homogenous and static handling of orchestral clusters in atmospheres, either in sustained tones or in micropolyphony
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micropolyphony
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ligeti. dense weaves of unison canons in which the lines move at different speeds and are not separately identifiable.
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micropolyphony
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ligeti: "the complex polyphony of the individual parts is embodied in a harmonic-musical flow, in which the harmonies do not change suddenly but merge into one another; one clearly discernible interval combo is gradually blurred, and from this cloudiness it is possible to discern a new interval combination taking shape."
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ligetis clusters drift through
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regions of color, harmony and texture
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kaufmann said ligeti
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thought of a representation of mass for the dead, as though far below, in the remote distance, a requiem were taking place."
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other cluster composition by ligeti
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volumina for organ
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Old Hungarian parlour dances
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ligeti
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ballad and dance
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ligeti
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concert romanesc
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ligeti
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apparitions
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ligeti
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atmospheres
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ligeti
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lontano
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ligeti
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ramifications
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ligeti
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melodien
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ligeti
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clocks and clouds
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ligeti
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san francisco polyphony
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ligeti
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grisey got his initial training
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at the trossingen conservatory in germany
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Who were Grisey's teachers and where?
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Messaien, paris
dutilleux, ecole normale xenakis and ligeti, darmstadt electroacoustics acoustics, faculte des sciences |
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grisey won
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prix de rome
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at the villa medici, grisey
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met tristan murail
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grisey cofounded
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L'intineraire with Murail
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music grisey liked
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oriental, african, avant guarde, sibelius, janacek
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grisey taught at
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darmstadt summer courses, UC Berkeley, Paris
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grisey died suddenly
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from an aneurism
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transitoires
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grisey
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Transitoires is part of
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a 6 piece orchestral cycle, written from 1974-1985.
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6 movements of Les Espaces Acoustiques
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pppmte
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Les Espaces Acoustiques
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moves away from serialism towards techniques based on acoustic properties of sound (harmonic spectrum) and human perception
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Musique spectrale
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mixes human perception and the harmonic spectrum, popular in france from the 80s on
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orchestration of les espaces acoustiques
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solo viola-full orhcestra
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movement flow of l.e.a.
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all can be played separately or with any adjacently written piece
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l.e.a. based on a model
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inhale, exhale, rest
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inhale
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build tension
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exhale
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release tension
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rest
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on e
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instrumental sythesis
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grisey's name for the blurring distinction between harmony and timbre
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grisey has a trombone play a low e
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then follows it with a chord that simulates the E based on a sonogram analysis
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grisey tries to simulate the ring modulation by
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using long stretches of the same work employing hamonic transformations
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grisey's goal of rind modulation
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to modulate away from and back to the harmonic spectra
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Takemitsu from
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tokyo
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TTs early education
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cut short because of conscription
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TT employed during occupation after the war
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at a us military base
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while working at the military base, tt
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heard a lot of western music, decided he wanted to be a composer
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tt's teacher
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self taught
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TT cofounded
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an experimental workship
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tt's experimental workshop was specifically for
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mixed media projects
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tt worked with this in the mid 50s
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electronic music
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tt early 60s
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first came to international attention with requiem for strings
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requiem for strings popularity aided by
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stravinsky praising and promoting
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tt began to like native japanese music when he met
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john cage
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1970s tt turns to
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japanese gardens in color, spacing, and form
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tt wrote 93
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scores for film
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tt's best known film score
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Ran
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1980s and 1990s, tt guest composer and lecturer
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aldeburgh, tanglewood, suny buffalo, columbia
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tt died of
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bladder cancer and pneumonia while going through cancer treatment
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visions
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tt
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visions premiere
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chicago, barenboim
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visions orch
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b fl, cb cl, c bsn, b tp, 4 perc= lots of bass
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visions movements
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1. mystere, 2. les yeux clos
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visions commissioned
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by chicago for it's centenary
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1968 tt
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stranded in chicago due to a blizzard that closed the airport. went to art institute of chicago, liked the paintings of redon (mystere and les yeux clos)
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tt's fave painter
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odilon redon
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other pieces tt composed based on redon
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2 works for piano
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tt's treatment of orch in visions
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treats a large orch as though it were a chamber orch
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visions shows influences from which composers
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debussy and messiaen
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chamber concerto, requiem, tableau noir
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tt
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solitude sonore, scene, music of trees
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tt
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arc 1, dorian horizon, green, november steps
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ttt
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asterism, eycalyptus
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tt
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crossing, cassiopeia, winter, gemeaux
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tt
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autumn, a flock, far calls, dreamtime, toward the sea, a way a lone, star-isle, rain coming
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tt
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to the edge of dream, orion and pleiades, vers l'arc-en-ciel
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tt
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palma, reiver run, dream/window, i hear the water dreaming, nostalghia, treeline, twill by twilight
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tt
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a string around autumn, from me flows what you call time, visions, mystere, how slow the wind, quotation of dream-cermonials,
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tt
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fantasma, spirit garden, 3 film scores, spectral cantical
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tt
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