Olivier Messiaen : the centenary papers /

Title:

Olivier Messiaen : the centenary papers /

Format:

Book

Institution:

New England Conservatory

Contents:

Messiaen and his collaborative musique concrète rhythmic study / Marc Battier -- 'Who lives will see, who sees will hear ' : Messiaen on life, death, serialism and synaesthesia / Mark Carroll -- Messien's transcendent angels and the ten Duino elegies of Rilke / Judith Crispin -- Olivier Messiaen and Albert's Lyrebird : from Tamborine Mountain to "Eclairs sur l'au-dela" / Sydney Curtis and Hollis Taylor -- Messiaen and birdsong -- a consideration of avian dynamics / Michael Edward Edgerton -- Des canyons au étoiles -- : Messiaen's rational thinking in the designing of musical form / Shigeru Fujita -- The deforming prism : Messiaen's Four studies in rhythm / Ann Ghandar -- Biblical narrative and musical symbolism in Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum / Martin Lee -- 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 -- Olivier Messiaen's slow music : a reflection of eternity in time / Diane Luchese -- Messiaen's Turangalîla symphonie and its place within the symphonic genre of the first half of the twentieth century / Rhoderick McNeill -- Stratification of music and symbol in the fourth movement of Messiaen's 'Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum' / David Nelson -- Searching for a star : melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structures in Olivier Messiaen's 'O sacrum convivium!' (1937) / Tim Pack -- Some aphoristic thoughts by a pragmatic composer on questions linking music and mysticism, with some special reference to Olivier Messiaen / Larry Sitsky -- On time and eternity in Messiaen / Benedict Taylor -- Messiaen's dynamic Mozart / Po-Yi (Nelson) Wu -- Is there a story in Messiaen's Turangalila? From the romantic to the ironic and back via the tragic / Miloš Zatkalik.

Online access:

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Library holdings:

New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML410.M58 O46 2010 – Available

• Available Temporarily at New England Conservatory Spaulding Reserve Desk
  On reserve for Mhst556 Messiaen (History: Handel)

New England Conservatory Spaulding Desk
CD ML410.M58 O46 2010 – Available

• Available Temporarily at New England Conservatory Spaulding Reserve Desk
  On reserve for Mhst556 Messiaen (History: Handel)