Music and Time Annotation << Back D. Ligeti’s «Ceremonials»: вetween Sense and Absurdity T.P. Petrova In the paper the most varied works of Gyorgy Ligeti are considered –«The Future of Music», a piece for non-speaking lecturer and audience (1961), Three bagatelles for piano (1961), Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962), which are also known as «music ceremonial». The author interprets these works in context of the most important for 20th century art phenomena of music time, silence and thinks of genre basis of the pieces. In the paper special attention is paid to concept of ceremonial and its inner connection with mentioned works. Key words: D. Ligeti, music ceremonial, avant-garde. E-mail: tapjan@mail.ru