Un oiseau des arbres de vie : (Oiseau tui) : pour orchestre / Olivier Messiaen ; orchestration réalisée d'après les esquisses par Christopher Dingle = orchestration realized from the sketches by Christopher Dingle.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992, composer.

Contributor:

Dingle, Christopher Philip, editor.

Standardized Title:

Oiseau des arbres de vie

Language:

English

French

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Orchestral music--Scores.

Orchestral music.

Tui--Songs and music.

Tui.

Genre:

Program music.

Scores.

Art music.

Physical Description:

1 study score (xv, 63 pages) ; 32 cm

Distribution:

[Netherlands] : exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard.

Other Title:

Oiseau tui : pour orchestre

Place of Publication:

Paris : Éditions musicales Alphonse Leduc, [2023]

Language Note:

Staff notation.

Summary:

"... Un oiseau des arbres de Vie consists entirely of Messiaen's transcription of a New Zealand bird, the Tui, ornithological designation Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a relatively large member of the honeyeater family. Appropriately for Messiaen, the Tui was known as the Parson bird by early European settlers on account of the white tuft on its throat resembling a clerical dog-collar." -- Preface, page vi.

Notes:

For orchestra.

Originally intended to be included in the composer's final work Éclairs sur l'au-delà..., but ultimately not included.

First edition, based on the composer's sketches.

Likely completed by the composer in early 1988.

Preface (pages vi-xv), editorial notes (pages 39-44) and critical commentary (pages 45-63) in French with English translation.

OCLC:

1414536023

Publisher Number:

9790046308284 (saddle stitched)

M046308284

AL 30 828 Éditions musicales Alphonse Leduc