Author: Olivier MessiaenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Couleurs De La Cite Celeste for Piano Solo, 3 Clarinets, 3 Xylophones, Brass & Percussion
Author: Olivier MessiaenCouleurs de la Cite Celeste, Piano, 3 Clarinets, 3 Xylos, Brass Orch & Metallic Percussion. Study Sc
Author: MessiaenMessiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception
Author: Robert FallonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317097149
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
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 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception explores Messiaen’s imprint on recent musical life. The first part scrutinizes his compositional technique in terms of counterpoint, spectralism and later piano music, while the second charts ways in which Messiaen’s influence is manifest in the music and careers of Ohana, Xenakis, Murail and Quebecois composers. The third part includes case studies of Messiaen’s reception in Italy, Spain and the USA. The volume also includes an ornithological catalogue of Messiaen’s birds, collates information on the numerous ’tombeaux’ pieces he inspired, and concludes with a Critical Catalogue of Messiaen’s Musical Works.
Composer
Author: Music and Musicians
Author: Evan SeniorStanley Sadie's Brief Guide to Music
Author: Stanley SadiePublisher:
ISBN: 9780130868510
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This classical text/cassette package should be of interest to those with little knowledge or experience of music.
Messiaen's Final Works
Author: Christopher DinglePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351558439
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
When Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) completed the vast opera Saint Frans dAssise 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 Frans dAssise 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 lAu-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 Messiaens final years.
George Birnbaum's Classical CD Scout
Author: Conversations with Olivier Messiaen
Author: Claude SamuelPublisher: Stainer & Bell, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Sonic Design
Author: Robert CoganPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963450005
Category : Music theory
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description