Performing Messiaen's organ music : 66 masterclasses / Jon Gillock.

Author
Gillock, Jon [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Description
xxii, 403 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

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    Using Messiaen's own analytical and aesthetic notes as a point of departure, Jon Gillock offers detailed commentary on the performance of Messiaen's 66 organ works. Gillock provides background information on the composition and premiere of each piece, a translation of Messiaen's related writings, and a systematic explanation of performance considerations. Gillock also supplies details about the organ at La Trinité in Paris, the instrument for which most of Messiaen's pieces were imagined. --from publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-403).
    Contents
    • The 66 masterclasses. Le banquet céleste (1928)
    • Diptyque (1928)
    • Apparition de léglise éternelle (1932)
    • La Nativité du Seigneur, nine meditations (1935)
    • Les corps glorieux, seven short visions of the life of the resurrected (1939)
    • Messe de la Pentecôte (1950)
    • Livre d'orgue, seven pieces (1951)
    • Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace (1960)
    • Méditations sur le mystère de la sainte trinité (1969)
    • Livre du sainte sacrement (1984)
    • Monodie (1997, posthumous)
    • Offrande au sainte sacrement (2001, posthumous)
    • Prélude (2002, posthumous)
    • The organ a L'Église de las SainteTrinité, Paris. Les grandes orgues de l'Église de las Sainte-Trinité à Paris (a brochure by Olivier Messiaen, October 1980)
    • Evolution of the organ, 1930-1992
    • Characteristics of the organ since 1966.
    ISBN
    • 9780253353733 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0253353734 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009018779
    OCLC
    313659221
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