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With this sonata, already well-estabished as an essential part of the viola repertoire, Ligeti managed to anticipate the current trend for 'worldmusic' by incorporating various ethnic (Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Ivory Coast) elements with traditional dance forms and reference to virtuosic jazz riffs. This fusion is characterised by natural intervals and harmonics, daring changes of position, double stopping, ‘loony’ modulations and occasional pseudo-tonalities. Particularly surprising is the first movement which is played only on the C-string. Instrumentation: viola