Messiaen studies / edited by Robert Sholl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sholl, Robert.

Series:

Cambridge composer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Messiaen, Olivier.

Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 260 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Contributory volume on the work of the influential twentieth-century French composer, Olivier Messiaen.

Contents:

1 Messiaen in 1942: a working musician in occupied Paris / Nigel Simeone 1

2 Love, Mad Love and the 'point sublime': the Surrealist poetics of Messiaen's: Harawi / Robert Sholl 34

3 Messiaen's journey towards asceticism / Paul McNulty 63

4 Forms of love: Messiaen's aesthetics of eblouissement / Sander van Maas 78

5 Messiaen's mysterious birds / Allen Forte 101

6 Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux: a musical dumbshow? / Jeremy Thurlow 119

7 The impossible charm of Messiaen's Chronochromie / Amy Bauer 145

8 Composer as performer, recording as text: notes towards a 'manner of realization' for Messiaen's music / Andrew Shenton 168

9 'The art of the most intensive contrast': Olivier Messiaen's mosaic form up to its apotheosis in Saint Francois d'Assise / Stefan Keym 188

10 Two paths to paradise: reform in Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise / Robert Fallon 206

11 Messiaen and twentieth-century music / Arnold Whittall 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521839815

0521839815

OCLC:

154682239