Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Newcastle on Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Crispin, Judith Michelle.
• Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992

Description

xv, 335 p. : ill., music; 22 cm. +

Summary

In 2008 musicians and scholars world-wide celebrated the centenary of Olivier Messiaen's birth. One of the most influential composers in living memory, Messiaen is remembered as a great nature poet--a mystic whose music had a profound effect on the Twentieth-century avant-garde. This volume of essays, marking the occasion of Messiaen's centenary, was authored by musicologists, performers, composers, ornithologists and researchers from Australia, Germany, France, North America, Japan, New Zealand, Serbia and England. The writers, internationally acclaimed experts as well as emerging scholars, span three generations--living testimony to the diverse and lasting sphere of Messiaen's legacy [Publisher description].

Subject

• Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992 > Criticism and interpretation
• Birdsongs > Recording and reproducing

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Accompanying CD includes musical examples.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Messiaen and his collaborative musique concrète 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 Turangalîla 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

LCCN

^^2010551505

OCLC

677915234

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library