Messiaen
By: Robert Sherlaw Johnson
Contributors: Rae, Caroline
Edition: New ed.] / updated and with additional text by Caroline Rae.
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781847725875
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Previous ed.: 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Author's foreword; title: Preface to third edition; title: Life and early influences; title: The development of Messiaen's musical language; title: Early works; title: Rhythm; title: Christianity and symbolism; title: Organ works 1935-1939; title: Messiaen the poet : the early song cycles; title: The works of the war years; title: Messiaen and the Tristan myth; title: The experimental period 1949-1951; title: Birdsong; title: Catalogue d'Oiseaux; title: The works of the '60s and early '70s; title: Late works; title: Conclusion; title: Postscript: The works of Messiaen's final years / Caroline Rae; title: Appendix I: Chronological list of works; title: Appendix II: Table of 120 deçî-tâlas; title: Appendix III: Bird names.