Olivier Messiaen
Subtitle: the centenary papers
By: edited by Judith Crispin
Contributors: Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle on Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781443824989
Subjects: Birdsongs; Recording and reproducing; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Messiaen and his collaborative musique concrète rhythmic study / Marc Battier; title: 'Who lives will see, who sees will hear ' : Messiaen on life, death, serialism and synaesthesia / Mark Carroll; title: Messien's transcendent angels and the ten Duino elegies of Rilke / Judith Crispin; title: Olivier Messiaen and Albert's Lyrebird : from Tamborine Mountain to "Eclairs sur l'au-dela" / Sydney Curtis and Hollis Taylor; title: Messiaen and birdsong - a consideration of avian dynamics / Michael Edward Edgerton; title: Des canyons au étoiles; title: : Messiaen's rational thinking in the designing of musical form / Shigeru Fujita; title: The deforming prism : Messiaen's Four studies in rhythm / Ann Ghandar; title: Biblical narrative and musical symbolism in Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Martin Lee; title: Messiaen's Visions de l'amen : issues in performance practice informed by the composer's role as piano, organ and orchestral colorist / Christine Logan and Rodney L. Smith; title: Olivier Messiaen's slow music : a reflection of eternity in time / Diane Luchese; title: Messiaen's Turangalîla symphonie and its place within the symphonic genre of the first half of the twentieth century / Rhoderick McNeill; title: Stratification of music and symbol in the fourth movement of Messiaen's 'Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum' / David Nelson; title: Searching for a star : melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structures in Olivier Messiaen's 'O sacrum convivium!' (1937) / Tim Pack; title: Some aphoristic thoughts by a pragmatic composer on questions linking music and mysticism, with some special reference to Olivier Messiaen / Larry Sitsky; title: On time and eternity in Messiaen / Benedict Taylor; title: Messiaen's dynamic Mozart / Po-Yi (Nelson) Wu; title: Is there a story in Messiaen's Turangalila? From the romantic to the ironic and back via the tragic / Miloš Zatkalik.