Messiaen Studies

Herausgeber: Sholl, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780521174534
• ISBN-10: 0521174538
• Artikelnr.: 32466673

Inhaltsangabe

1. Messiaen in 1942: a working musician in occupied Paris Nigel Simeone; 2.
Love, mad love and the Point Sublime: the Surrealist poetics of Messiaen's
Harawi Robert Sholl; 3. Messiaen's journey towards asceticism Paul McNulty;
4. Forms of love: Messiaen's aesthetics of Éblouissement Sander van Maas;
5. Messiaen's mysterious birds Allen Forte; 6. Messiaen's Catalogue
d'Oiseaux: a musical dumbshow? Jeremy Thurlow; 7. The impossible charm of
Messiaen's Chronochromie Amy Bauer; 8. Composer as performer, recording as
text: towards a 'manner of realisation' for Messiaen's music Andrew
Shenton; 9. 'The art of the most intensive contrast': Olivier Messiaen's
mosaic form up to its apotheosis in Saint François d'Assise Stefan Keym;
10. Two paths to paradise: reform in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise
Robert Fallon; 11. Messiaen and the twentieth century Arnold Whittall.