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Author : Jon Gillock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253353733
Gillock supplies details about the organ at La Trinité in Paris, the instrument for which most of Messiaen's pieces were imagined.
Author : Vincent Benitez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135871307
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.
Author : Stuart Waumsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042347216
Author : Vincent Perez Benitez
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415973724
Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide is the first extensive reference work devoted entirely to the life and work of Messiaen, considered by many to be one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. It presents the most significant and helpful sources on Messiaen from 1930 to 2006, including interviews, reviews, topical studies, and biographical and stylistic studies. Annotations provide an overview of each source and point out key concepts.
Author : Michael Murray
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300072910
This study draws portraits of the French romantic organist-composers including Aristide Cavaille-Coll, Cesar Franck, Charles-Marie Widor, Louis Vierne, Marcel Dupre, Jean Langlais and Olivier Messiaen. The author details the lives, times, styles, and techniques of these composers.
Author : Andrew Shenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351555883
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.
Author : Vincent Benitez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135871314
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.
Author : Christopher Dingle,Christopher Philip Dingle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521632201
An accessible study of the life and works of the twentieth-century composer Olivier Messiaen.
Author : Christopher S. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136497896
This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time of unprecedented change for organ music, not only in its composition and performance but also in the standards of instrument design and building. Organ music was anything but immune to the complex musical, intellectual, and socio-political climate of the time. Twentieth-Century Organ Music examines the organ's repertory from the entire period, contextualizing it against the background of important social and cultural trends. In a collection of twelve essays, experienced scholars survey the dominant geographic centers of organ music (France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the United States, and German-speaking countries) and investigate the composers who made important contributions to the repertory (Reger in Germany, Messiaen in France, Ligeti in Eastern and Central Europe, Howells in Great Britain). Twentieth-Century Organ Music provides a fresh vantage point from which to view one of the twentieth century's most diverse and engaging musical spheres.
Author : Robert Fallon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317097181
Focusing on Messiaen’s relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences examines the genesis, sources and cultural pressures that shaped Messiaen’s music. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception analyses Messiaen’s compositional approach and the repercussions of his music. While each book offers a coherent collection in itself, together these complementary volumes elucidate how powerfully Messiaen was embedded in his time and place, and how his music resonates ever more today. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences presents many new primary sources, including discussion of Messiaen’s birdsong cahiers, sketch and archival materials for his Prix de Rome entries and war-time Portique, along with performance practice insights and theological inspiration in works as diverse as Visions de l’Amen, Harawi, Timbres-durées and the organ Méditations. The volume places the composer within a broader historical and cultural framework than has previously been attempted, ranging from specific influences to more general contexts. As a centrepiece, the book includes an examination of the impact of one of the greatest influences upon Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod.
Author : Almut Rössler,Olivier Messiaen
Publisher : Gilles & Francke KG Verlag
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042604996
Author : Olivier Messiaen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Organ music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042617709
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571281046
Re-issued to coincide with the centenary of Messiaen's birth, The Messiaen Companion was the first major study to appear after the composer's death in April 1992. It was the first book to offer both a complete survey of Messiaen's extraordinary achievements and a comprehensive guide to his music, also examining in detail the enduring inspiration which Messiaen derived from his religious faith and from his lifelong passion for ornithology and the natural world. The contributors, all of whom have made a special study of the composer, include two biographers of Messiaen and a number of the foremost interpreters of his music. Messiaen's influential teaching is recalled in essays by three of his pupils (Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin, and Peter Hill), and the composer is also remembered in a remarkable and moving contribution from his widow and devoted musical companion, the pianist Yvonne Loriod.
Author : Dorothee Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 350679017X
Author : Andrew Shenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351558464
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.