Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'oiseaux
Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue D'oiseaux

Author: Roderick Chadwick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1107000319

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This book charts Messiaen's transformation of birdsong into music and its development into a major work of the twentieth century.

Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen

Author: Peter Hill

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780754656302

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Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques is arguably the first of Messiaen's major works to create a successful synthesis between his music and his passion for ornithology. Messiaen regarded birdsong as music--a belief that led for a time to an obsession with truth-to-nature. Here, Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone provide the background to Oiseaux exotiques, discussing Messiaen's relations with the 1950s avant garde and his involvement with the concerts of the Domaine musical, for which Oiseaux exotiques was composed. The authors analyse Messiaen's compositional methods in unprecedented detail and trace step-by-step the evolution of musical ideas from first notation to finished score.

Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen

Author: Vincent Benitez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-20

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 135158913X

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Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition presents researchers with the most significant and helpful resources on Olivier Messiaen, one of the twentieth century's greatest composers. With multiple indices, this annotated bibliography will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field. The second edition has been fully revised and updated.

A Practical Guide to Solo Piano Music
A Practical Guide to Solo Piano Music

Author: Trevor Barnard

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1574630458

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(Meredith Music Resource). An invaluable, quick reference tool for any teacher, performer or student of the piano who desires an extensive listing of the most significant works composed for solo piano. Accurate, concise and thoroughly researched entries provide an at-a-glance overview of a composer's output, with information on difficulty levels, opus numbers, movement titles, publisher sources and so forth. Whether searching for new material or refreshing one's perspective, this portable database of information will prove itself indispensable for repertoire study and planning. A must-have resource for any pianist's bookshelf or piano. (a href="http://youtu.be/FyL_dNk9z8w" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on A Practical Guide to Solo Piano Music(/a)

The Messiaen Companion
The Messiaen Companion

Author: Russell Hoban

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-11-17

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 0571281044

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Re-issued to coincide with the centenary of Messiaen's birth, The Messiaen Companion was the first major study to appear after the composer's death in April 1992. It was the first book to offer both a complete survey of Messiaen's extraordinary achievements and a comprehensive guide to his music, also examining in detail the enduring inspiration which Messiaen derived from his religious faith and from his lifelong passion for ornithology and the natural world. The contributors, all of whom have made a special study of the composer, include two biographers of Messiaen and a number of the foremost interpreters of his music. Messiaen's influential teaching is recalled in essays by three of his pupils (Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin, and Peter Hill), and the composer is also remembered in a remarkable and moving contribution from his widow and devoted musical companion, the pianist Yvonne Loriod.

Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen

Author: Robert Sholl

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2024-06-12

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1789148952

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Drawing on a range of sources and fields, the rich life story of this polymathic composer. This groundbreaking biography offers fresh perspectives on the life, ideas, and music of French twentieth-century composer, organist, and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen. Drawing from previously unexplored sketches and archival material, the book seamlessly combines elements of biography, musicology, theology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics to present a nuanced perspective on Messiaen’s work. Robert Sholl explores the profound impact of Messiaen’s devout Catholicism, which found expression through his work as a church organist, his engagement with birdsong, his interaction with Surrealism, and his profound influence on major musical figures of the latter twentieth century. Unlike previous biographies, this book also considers the perspectives of Messiaen’s contemporaries and students, providing a comprehensive understanding of his life and artistic legacy.

Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music
Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music

Author: Lesley A. Wright

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1317081633

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Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors include scholars and active performers who see performance not as an independent activity but as a practice enriched by a wealth of historical and analytical approaches. To underline the usefulness of contextual understanding for performance, each author highlights the choices performers must confront with examples drawn from particular repertoires and composers. Topics explored include editorial practice, the use of early recordings, emergent disciplines such as analysis-and-performance, and traditions passed down from teacher to student. Themes that emerge demonstrate the importance of editions as a form of communication, the challenges of notation, the significance of detail and of deeper continuity, the importance of performing and teaching traditions, and the influence of cross disciplinary frameworks. A link to a set of performed examples on the frenchpianomusic.com website allows readers to hear and compare performances and interpretations of the music discussed. The volume will appeal to musicologists and analysts interested in performance, performers, students, and piano teachers.