Olivier Messiaen S Opera Saint Francois D Assise

Author : Vincent Perez Benitez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

Author : Harry Halbreich
Publisher : Fayard
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9782213644844

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L'oeuvre d'Olivier Messiaen by Harry Halbreich Pdf

L’importance de l’œuvre d’Olivier Messiaen n’a cessé de croître. Plus de quinze ans après sa mort, on peut mesurer l’empreinte qu’il laisse dans l’ensemble du xxe siècle – et au-delà. Dans un ouvrage paru en 1980, Harry Halbreich commentait avec science et admiration les différentes œuvres de son « cher maître ». Son étude se voit ici rééditée et poursuivie : il y traite les œuvres composées après 1980, et en particulier les monumentaux Eclairs sur l’Au-delà..., Livre du Saint Sacrement et l’opéra Saint François d’Assise.Le détail des analyses s’accompagne d’une réflexion remarquablement riche sur tous les aspects de l’apport spécifique de Messiaen au langage musical. Le rôle du pédagogue et sa capacité d’éveiller les jeunes talents reçoit un hommage mérité. Une insistance particulière est mise sur le message théologique dont cette musique est l’expression. Le rayonnement de cette immense personnalité est ainsi célébré avec ferveur l’année du centenaire de sa naissance. Harry Halbreich, qui fut disciple d’Olivier Messiaen au Conservatoire de Paris, est l’auteur d’ouvrages sur Honegger, Debussy et de larges contributions aux Guides – de la musique symphonique, de la musique de piano, de la musique de chambre (Fayard, Indispensables).

Author : Vincent Perez Benitez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 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.

Author : Vincent Benitez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351589130

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Olivier Messiaen by Vincent Benitez Pdf

Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition presents researchers with the most significant and helpful resources on Olivier Messiaen, one of the twentieth century's greatest composers. With multiple indices, this annotated bibliography will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field. The second edition has been fully revised and updated.

Author : Olivier Messiaen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042588595

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Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen Pdf

Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Siglind Bruhn
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781576471395

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Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity by Siglind Bruhn Pdf

Three of Olivier Messiaen's later works, La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, and Saint François d'Assise, are linked by the fact that the composer refers to and quotes from Thomas Aquinas. The composer's reception of Thomistic texts is one of the principles guiding the interpretations in this study. On the one hand, Messiaen had been pondering Thomas's thoughts on the role of music in the life of a Christian and on music's possible spiritual content all through his professional life; on the other hand, the oratorio, the organ meditations, and the opera are the only works in which Messiaen quotes extensive Thomistic sentences addressing purely theological subject matter. The first aspect, Messiaen's appropriation of or felicitous congruence with the medieval theologian's views on music underlies all analyses as a kind of background fabric. The second aspect, Messiaen's quotations from the Summa theologica and their musical translation, determines segments of a larger discussion that, in the book's three main chapters, attempts to do justice to the compositions as a whole. While Thomas' theological aesthetics appears as a thread woven through a texture in a way that brings it only periodically to the foreground, the statements from Thomas's writings provide essential foundations determining the works' content and its musical rendering. This book is part of Siglind Bruhn's Messiaen Trilogy.

Author : Andrew Shenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351555876

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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 M?tations sur le myst? de la Sainte Trinit?or 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.

Author : Andrew Shenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 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.

Author : Richard Begam,Matthew Wilson Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421420622

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Modernism and Opera by Richard Begam,Matthew Wilson Smith Pdf

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Author : Peter Hill,Nigel Simeone,Special Lecturer in Music Bibliography Nigel Simeone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Author : Christopher Dingle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351558426

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Messiaen's Final Works by Christopher Dingle Pdf

When Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) completed the vast opera Saint Fran?s d?Assise in 1983, he was mentally and physically exhausted, and believed that this monumental work would be his final compositional statement. In fact, he completed seven further works, and these form the focus of the present study. Christopher Dingle suggests that, following the crisis provoked by the opera, Messiaen's music underwent a discernible change in style. He examines these seven works to identify characteristics of the composer's music, in particular an often overlooked aspect of his technique: harmony. Part I of the book begins with a brief historical survey before discussing Saint Fran?s d?Assise as the work which defines everything that follows. Part II examines the series of miniatures that came after the opera and their links with ?lairs sur l?Au-Del?., his final masterpiece. ?lairs forms the subject of Part III of the book. Each movement is analysed in turn, before the work is considered as a whole and its hidden structure and motivic cohesion is revealed. Finally, Part IV considers the incomplete Concert ? and key stylistic features of the works of Messiaen?s final years.

Author : Jeremy S. Begbie,Steven R. Guthrie
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802862778

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Resonant Witness by Jeremy S. Begbie,Steven R. Guthrie Pdf

Resonant Witness gathers together a wide, harmonious chorus of voices from across the musical and theological spectrum to show that music and theology can each learn much from the other and that the majesty and power of both are profoundly amplified when they do. With essays touching on J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Martin Luther, Karl Barth, Olivier Messiaen, jazz improvisation, South African freedom songs, and more, this volume encourages musicians and theologians to pursue a more fruitful and sustained engagement with one another. What can theology do for music? Resonant Witness helps answer this question with an essential resource in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of music and theology. Covering an impressively wide range of musical topics, from cosmos to culture and theology to worship, Jeremy Begbie and Steven Guthrie explore and map new territory with incisive contributions from the very best musicians, theologians, and philosophers. Bennett Zon Durham University This volume represents a burst of cross-disciplinary energy and insight that can be celebrated by musicians and theologians, music-lovers and God-lovers alike. John D. Witvliet (from afterword)

Author : Gail Ashton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441160683

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Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture by Gail Ashton Pdf

With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comics book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more. Also included is a companion website aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives, complete with: - Further reading/weblinks - 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations - Images and interviews - Guide to library archives and manuscript collections - Guide to heritage collection See also our website at https://medievalafterlives.wordpress.com/.

Author : Sander van Maas
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780823264391

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Thresholds of Listening by Sander van Maas Pdf

Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective and individual politics. The contributors to this volume show that the exteriorization of listening— brought into relief by recent historical studies of technologies of listening—involves a re-negotiation of the theoretical and pragmatic distinctions that underpin the notion of listening. Focusing on the manifold borderlines between listening and its erstwhile others, such as speaking, reading, touching, seeing, or hearing, the book maps new frontiers in the history of aurality. They suggest that listening’s finitude— defined in some of the essays as its death or deadliness—should be considered as a heuristic instrument rather than as a mere descriptor. Listening emerges where it appears to end or to run up against thresholds and limits—or when it takes unexpected turns. Listening’s recent emergence on the cultural and theoretical scene may therefore be productively read against contemporary recurrences of the motifs of elusiveness, finitude, and resistance to open up new politics, discourses, and technologies of aurality.

Author : Helen M. Greenwald
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195335538

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The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Helen M. Greenwald Pdf

Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.