Messiaen the theologian / Andrew Shenton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shenton, Andrew, 1962-

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Messiaen, Olivier.

Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992.

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2010]

Contents:

Religious literature in Messiaen's personal library / Yves Balmer

Messiaen as preacher and evangelist in the context of European modernism / Peter Bannister

Messiaen's saintly naïveté / Sander von Maas

Olivier Messiaen and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger : Two views of the liturgical reform according to the second vatican council / Karin Heller

Messiaen's relationship to Jacques Maritain's musical circle and neo-thomism / Douglas Shadle

Messiaen and Aquinas / Vincent P. Benitez

Dante as guide to Messiaen's gothic spirituality / Robert Fallon

Five quartets : The search for the still point of the turning world in the war quartets of T.S. Eliot and Olivier Messiaen / Andrew Shenton

The charm of impossibilities : Mystic surrealism as contemplative voluptuousness / Stephen Schloesser

'Une œuvre simple, solennelle...' : Messiaen's commission from André Malraux / Nigel Simeone

Olivier Messiaen and the avant-garde poetics of the Messe de la Pentecôte / Robert Sholl

Messiaen as explorer in Livre du Saint Sacrement / Luke Berryman

Buddhist temple, Shinto Shrine and the invisible god of Sept Haïkaï / Cheong Wai Ling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9780754666400

0754666409

OCLC:

319318913

Publisher Number:

99938788815