• Duration: 7'30''
• Instrumentation: 0000-0440-batt (5esec) 2pf
• Year: 1967
• Type: parts, score

Little Music 2 is the second of the series of four chamber works written by Górecki in the mid-1960s (the first three in 1967 and the last in 1970). It is fairly short, devoid of sharp contrasts and, at some places, also of movement and spontaneity. Characterized by free rhythms, short semitone motives and constant dynamics, this sort of work was, however, intended by the composer, as he wanted to emphasize the stagnation of the work rather than its development. The two main features of the composition are: 1. a presentation of an overall motivic idea in short, but energetic scale passages, typical of vocal music, which passing to other parts form dense texture, 2. a separation of this motivic network by static sections and pauses. [Based on A. Thomas, Górecki, Kraków 1998, PWM]