Olivier Messiaen : the centenary papers / edited by Judith Crispin.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Newcastle on Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, c2010
Description
xv, 335 p. : ill., music ; 22 cm. + 1 sound disc (13 mins. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

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      Subject(s)
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and index.
      Contents
      • Messiaen and his collaborative musique concrete rhythmic study / Marc Battier
      • 'Who lives will see, who sees will hear ': Messiaen on life, death, serialism and synaesthesia / Mark Carroll
      • Messien's transcendent angels and the ten Duino elegies of Rilke / Judith Crispin
      • Olivier Messiaen and Albert's Lyrebird: from Tamborine Mountain to "Eclairs sur l'au-dela" / Sydney Curtis and Hollis Taylor
      • Messiaen and birdsong - a consideration of avian dynamics / Michael Edward Edgerton
      • Des canyons au étoiles...: Messiaen's rational thinking in the designing of musical form / Shigeru Fujita
      • The deforming prism : Messiaen's Four studies in rhythm / Ann Ghandar
      • Biblical narrative and musical symbolism in Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Martin Lee
      • Messiaen's Visions de l'amen : issues in performance practice informed by the composer's role as piano, organ and orchestral colorist / Christine Logan and Rodney L. Smith
      • Olivier Messiaen's slow music: a reflection of eternity in time / Diane Luchese
      • Messiaen's Turangalĭla symphonie and its place within the symphonic genre of the first half of the twentieth century / Rhoderick McNeill
      • Stratification of music and symbol in the fourth movement of Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum' / David Nelson
      • Searching for a star: melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structures in Olivier Messiaen's O sacrum convivium! (1937) / Tim Pack
      • Some aphoristic thoughts by a pragmatic composer on questions linking music and mysticism, with some special reference to Olivier Messiaen / Larry Sitsky
      • On time and eternity in Messiaen / Benedict Taylor
      • Messiaen's dynamic Mozart / Po-Yi (Nelson) Wu
      • Is there a story in Messiaen's Turangalila? From the romantic to the ironic and back via the tragic / Miloš Zatkalik.
      ISBN
      • 1443824984
      • 9781443824989
      OCLC
      677915234
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