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Olivier Messiaen

Nigel Simeone
Olivier Messiaen Book PDF

Author : Nigel Simeone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351555913

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Olivier Messiaen by Nigel Simeone Pdf

When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a man apart; a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were God and Nature and a composer whose music progressed along an entirely individual path, artistically impervious to contemporaneous events and the whims both of his contemporaries and the critics. Whilst such a view contains a large element of truth, the past ten years has seen an explosion of interest in the composer, and the work of a diverse range of scholars has painted a much richer, more complex picture of Messiaen. This volume presents some of the fruits of this research for the first time, concentrating on three broad, interrelated areas: Messiaen's relationship with fellow artists; key developments in the composer's musical language and technique; and his influences, both sacred and secular. The volume assesses Messiaen's position as a creative artist of the twentieth century in the light of the latest research. In the process, it identifies some of the key myths, confusions and exaggerations surrounding the composer which often mask equally remarkable truths. In attempting to reveal some of those truths, the essays elucidate a little of the mystery surrounding Messiaen as a man, an artist, a believer and a musician. Specifically, the volume covers Messiaen's attitudes and associations to Cocteau, Stravinsky's Les Noces, Dutilleux and Toesca, as well as exploring his teaching techniques, the Traite rythme, de couleur et d'ornithologie, Messiaen's harmony, performing and transcription techniques, composing for Ondes Martenot, his association with ballet, Saint Fran‘s d'Assise and the influence of his faith. Messiaen himself contributes directly in the form of a speech that he gave about the tapestry-maker Jean Lur and the collection also includes the first literary translation of L' en bourgeon; the garland of poems written by Messiaen's mother, Cle Sauvage, when she was expecting him. The composer de

Olivier Messiaen

Peter Hill
Olivier Messiaen Book PDF

Author : Peter Hill
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754656306

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Olivier Messiaen by Peter Hill Pdf

Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques is arguably the first of Messiaen's major works to create a successful synthesis between his music and his passion for ornithology. Messiaen regarded birdsong as music--a belief that led for a time to an obsession with truth-to-nature. Here, Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone provide the background to Oiseaux exotiques, discussing Messiaen's relations with the 1950s avant garde and his involvement with the concerts of the Domaine musical, for which Oiseaux exotiques was composed. The authors analyse Messiaen's compositional methods in unprecedented detail and trace step-by-step the evolution of musical ideas from first notation to finished score.

Olivier Messiaen

Vincent Benitez
Olivier Messiaen Book PDF

Author : Vincent Benitez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135871314

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Olivier Messiaen by Vincent Benitez Pdf

Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide is a unique bibliographical resource that presents the reader with the most significant and helpful resources on Olivier Messiaen, one of the twentieth century's greatest composers, published between 1930 and 2007. An introductory chapter offers a short biography of Messiaen, a consideration of his musical style and works, and a discussion of Messiaen studies. Chapters 2 and 3 concentrate on the primary literature, organized around manuscript collections, articles and reviews, pedagogical works, lectures and librettos, prefaces, interviews, correspondence, and documentaries and filmed performances. Chapters 4 through 9 focus on the secondary literature, namely, biographical and stylistic studies, topical examinations, discussions of particular works, accounts of Messiaen in works devoted to other topics, reviews of books and significant performances of Messiaen's music, and examinations of source materials on the Internet. A list of works and a selected discography conclude the book.

Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time

Paul Griffiths
Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time Book PDF

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571287307

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Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time by Paul Griffiths Pdf

Olivier Messiaen was one of the outstanding creative artists of his time. The strength of his appeal, to listeners as well as to composers, is a measure of the individuality of his music, which draws on a vast range of sources: rhythms of twentieth-century Europe and thirteenth-century India, ripe romantic harmony and brittle birdsong, the sounds of Indonesian percussion and modern electronic instruments. What binds all these together is, on one level, his unswerving devotion to praising God in his art, and on another, his independent view of how music is made. Messiaen's music offers a range of ways of experiencing time: time suspended in music of unparalleled changelessness, time racing in music of wild exuberance, time repeating itself in vast cycles of reiteration. In Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time, leading writer and musicologist, Paul Griffiths, explores the problems of religious art, and includes searching analyses and discussions of all the major works, suggesting how they function as works of art and not only as theological symbols. This comprehensive and stimulating book covers the whole of Messiaen's output up to and including his opera, Saint Françoise d'Assise.

Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs

Andrew Shenton
Olivier Messiaen s System of Signs Book PDF

Author : Andrew Shenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351555883

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Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs by Andrew Shenton Pdf

Andrew Shenton's groundbreaking cross-disciplinary approach to Messiaen's music presents a systematic and detailed examination of the compositional techniques of one of the most significant musicians of the twentieth century as they relate to his desire to express profound truths about Catholicism. It is widely accepted that music can have mystical and transformative powers, but because 'pure' music has no programme, Messiaen sought to refine his compositions to speak more clearly about the truths of the Catholic faith by developing a sophisticated semiotic system in which aspects of music become direct signs for words and concepts. Using interdisciplinary methodologies drawing on linguistics, cognition studies, theological studies and semiotics, Shenton traces the development of Messiaen's sign system using examples from many of Messiaen's works and concentrating in particular on the Mtations sur le myst de la Sainte Trinitor organ, a suite which contains the most sophisticated and developed use of a sign system and represents a profound exegesis of Messiaen's understanding of the Catholic triune God. By working on issues of interpretation, Shenton endeavours to bridge the traditional gap between scholars and performers and to help people listen to Messiaen's music with spirit and understanding.

Messiaen

Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone
Messiaen Book PDF

Author : Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300109075

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Messiaen by Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone Pdf

With access to Messiaen's private archive, the authors have been able to trace the origins of many of his greatest works and place them in the context of his life. --book jacket.

Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise

Vincent Perez Benitez
Olivier Messiaen s Opera Saint Francois d Assise Book PDF

Author : Vincent Perez Benitez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253042903

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Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise by Vincent Perez Benitez Pdf

In this comprehensive study of Olivier Messiaen's magnum opus, Saint François d'Assise, Vincent Perez Benitez examines the opera from both theological and musical-analytical perspectives to ask how Messiaen expresses his Catholic theology through his work. Benitez combines a close reading of the opera score with accounts from Messiaen's associates, studies of Messiaen's birdsong notebooks and other primary documents, and an examination of the religious, musical, poetic, and visual arts literature with which the composer was familiar to explore how the opera's harmonic language and sound-color relationships motivate its musical meaning and expression. Through his analysis of these diverse sources and comparisons of Saint François d'Assise with other works such as Berg's Wozzeck and Wagner's Parsifal, Benitez places Messiaen's compositional practice within larger musical perspectives and historical contexts.

Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise

Vincent Perez Benitez
Olivier Messiaen s Opera Saint Francois d Assise Book PDF

Author : Vincent Perez Benitez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253042897

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Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise by Vincent Perez Benitez Pdf

In this comprehensive study of Olivier Messiaen’s magnum opus, Saint François d’Assise, Vincent Perez Benitez examines the opera from both theological and musical-analytical perspectives to ask how Messiaen expresses his Catholic theology through his work. Benitez combines a close reading of the opera score with accounts from Messiaen’s associates, studies of Messiaen’s birdsong notebooks and other primary documents, and an examination of the religious, musical, poetic, and visual arts literature with which the composer was familiar to explore how the opera’s harmonic language and sound-color relationships motivate its musical meaning and expression. Through his analysis of these diverse sources and comparisons of Saint François d’Assise with other works such as Berg’s Wozzeck and Wagner’s Parsifal, Benitez places Messiaen’s compositional practice within larger musical perspectives and historical contexts.

Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'oiseaux

Roderick Chadwick,Peter Hill
Olivier Messiaen s Catalogue D oiseaux Book PDF

Author : Roderick Chadwick,Peter Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107000315

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Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'oiseaux by Roderick Chadwick,Peter Hill Pdf

This book charts Messiaen's transformation of birdsong into music and its development into a major work of the twentieth century.

Performing Messiaen's Organ Music

Jon Gillock
Performing Messiaen s Organ Music Book PDF

Author : Jon Gillock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253353733

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Performing Messiaen's Organ Music by Jon Gillock Pdf

Gillock supplies details about the organ at La Trinité in Paris, the instrument for which most of Messiaen's pieces were imagined.

Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth

Audrey Ekdahl Davidson
Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth Book PDF

Author : Audrey Ekdahl Davidson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015053135813

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Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson Pdf

Provides a close examination of one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century music--the trilogy of works by composer Olivier Messiaen based on the Tristan myth--and analyzes it both thematically and musically.

Olivier Messiaen, the Musical Mediator

Madeleine Forte
Olivier Messiaen the Musical Mediator Book PDF

Author : Madeleine Forte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018334321

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For the End of Time

Rebecca Rischin
For the End of Time Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Rischin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0801472970

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For the End of Time by Rebecca Rischin Pdf

The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book.... Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere.... Rischin lovingly brings to life the other musicians-- tienne Pasquier, cellist; Henri Akoka, clarinetist; and Jean Le Boulaire, violinist--who played with Messiaen, the pianist at the premiere."--Alex Ross, The New Yorker "This book offers a wealth of new information about the circumstances under which the Quartet was created. Based on original interviews with the performers, witnesses to the premiere, and documents from the prison camp, this first comprehensive history of the Quartet's composition and premiere held my interest from beginning to end.... For the End of Time touches on many things: faith, friendship, creativity, grace in a time of despair, and the uncommon human alliances that wartime engenders."--Arnold Steinhardt, Chamber Music"The clarification of the order of composition of the movements is just one of the minor but cumulatively significant ways in which Rischin modifies the widely accepted account of the events at Stalag VIII A.... For the End of Time is a thorough and readable piece of investigative journalism that clarifies some important points about the Quartet's genesis."--Michael Downes, Times Literary Supplement The premiere of Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time on January 15, 1941, has been called one of the great stories of twentieth-century music. Composed while Messiaen (1908-1992) was imprisoned by the Nazis in Stalag VIII A, the work was performed under the most trying of circumstances: the temperature, inferior instruments, and the general conditions of life in a POW camp.Based on testimonies by the musicians and their families, witnesses to the premiere, former prisoners, and on documents from Stalag VIII A, For the End of Time examines the events that led to the Quartet's composition, the composer's interpretive preferences, and the musicians' problems in execution and how they affected the premiere and subsequent performances. Rebecca Rischin explores the musicians' life in the prison camp, their relationships with each other and with the German camp officials, and their intriguing fortunes before and after the momentous premiere. This paperback edition features supplementary texts and information previously unavailable to the author about the Quartet's premiere, Vichy and the composer, the Paris premiere, a recording featuring Messiaen as performer, and an updated bibliography and discography.

Music and Color

Olivier Messiaen,Claude Samuel
Music and Color Book PDF

Author : Olivier Messiaen,Claude Samuel
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015054347839

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Music and Color by Olivier Messiaen,Claude Samuel Pdf

Considering birds the "greatest musicians on our planet," Messiaen sought them out wherever he traveled, scrupulously notating their songs and transcribing them for musical instruments. At the time of his death in 1992 at the age of 83, he had made major contributions to every part of the concert repertoire.

Messiaen the Theologian

Andrew Shenton
Messiaen the Theologian Book PDF

Author : Andrew Shenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351558464

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Messiaen the Theologian by Andrew Shenton Pdf

For Olivier Messiaen, music was a way of expressing his faith. He considered it his good fortune to have been born a Catholic and declared that 'the illumination of the theological truths of the Catholic faith is the first aspect of my work, the noblest and no doubt the most useful'. Messiaen is one of the most widely performed and recorded composers of the twentieth-century and his popularity is increasing, but the theological component of his music has so far largely been neglected, or dealt with superficially, and continues to provide a serious impediment to understanding and appreciating his music for some of his audience. Messiaen the Theologian makes a significant contribution to Messiaen studies by providing cultural and historical context to Messiaen's theology. An international array of Messiaen scholars cover a wide variety of topics including Messiaen's personal spirituality, the context of Catholicism in France in the twentieth century, and comparisons between Messiaen and other artists such as Dante and T.S. Eliot. Interdisciplinary methodologies such as exegesis, theological studies and analysis are used to contribute to the understanding of several major works includinglairs sur l'au-del., Sept Ha nd Saint Fran‘s d'Assise. By approaching Messiaen and his music from such important and original perspectives, this book will be of interest not only to musicians and theologians, but also to readers interested in the connection between spirituality and the arts.