Messiaen Studies

Name: Messiaen Studies
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ISBN: 9780521839815

ISBN-10: 0521839815

ISBN-13: 9780521839815

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Sholl, Robert Sholl

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Description:

This is a contributory volume on the work of the influential 20th-century French composer, Olivier Messiaen. Giving a mixture of insights into Messiaen's music, the work covers the range of Messiaen's interests, and will be of interest to readers with an interest in music, literature, art and theology.

Book details

List price: $85.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Robert Sholl is Senior Lecturer in Music at Thames Valley University and also lectures at King's College London.



List of contributors


Acknowledgements



Messiaen in 1942: a working musician in occupied Paris




Love, Mad Love and the 'point sublime': the Surrealist poetics of Messiaen's: Harawi




Messiaen's journey towards asceticism




Forms of love: Messiaen's aesthetics of eblouissement




Messiaen's mysterious birds




Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux: a musical dumbshow?




The impossible charm of Messiaen's Chronochromie




Composer as performer, recording as text: notes towards a 'manner of realization' for Messiaen's music




'The art of the most intensive contrast': Olivier Messiaen's mosaic form up to its apotheosis in Saint Francois d'Assise




Two paths to paradise: reform in Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise




Messiaen and twentieth-century music



Index