Download or read book Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth written by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a close examination of one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century music--the trilogy of works by composer Olivier Messiaen based on the Tristan myth--and analyzes it both thematically and musically.
Download or read book The Stravinsky Legacy written by Jonathan Cross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the technical and aesthetic legacy of Igor Stravinsky.
Download or read book Olivier Messiaen s Turangal la symphonie written by Andrew Shenton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of only a few pieces not primarily inspired by Messiaen's Catholic faith, but by human love as described in the romance of Tristan and Isolde and elsewhere, the Turangalîla-symphonie is contextualized in Messiaen's oeuvre and as a genre piece. Using previously untranslated information from Messiaen's own description of the work in his Traité, close analysis of the music seeks to demystify some of the complex innovations he made to his musical language, especially in the areas of rhythm and orchestration. This Element pays special attention to the fragmentary and elusive program which is explained with reference to Messiaen's fascination with surrealism at this time. Information is included on the commission and composition of the piece, its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein, its revision by Messiaen in 1990, and its reception history in both live and recorded performances.
Download or read book Musical Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for include section: The Organ world.
Download or read book Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time written by Paul Griffiths and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivier Messiaen was one of the outstanding creative artists of his time. The strength of his appeal, to listeners as well as to composers, is a measure of the individuality of his music, which draws on a vast range of sources: rhythms of twentieth-century Europe and thirteenth-century India, ripe romantic harmony and brittle birdsong, the sounds of Indonesian percussion and modern electronic instruments. What binds all these together is, on one level, his unswerving devotion to praising God in his art, and on another, his independent view of how music is made. Messiaen's music offers a range of ways of experiencing time: time suspended in music of unparalleled changelessness, time racing in music of wild exuberance, time repeating itself in vast cycles of reiteration. In Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time, leading writer and musicologist, Paul Griffiths, explores the problems of religious art, and includes searching analyses and discussions of all the major works, suggesting how they function as works of art and not only as theological symbols. This comprehensive and stimulating book covers the whole of Messiaen's output up to and including his opera, Saint Françoise d'Assise.
Download or read book Orchestral Catalogue written by British Broadcasting Corporation. Music Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes of an Apprenticeship written by Pierre Boulez and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously published essays.
Download or read book Stockhausen written by Karl Heinrich Wörner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977-02-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his work on conversations with the composer, Karl Wörner puts into plain language the ideas behind Stockhausen's new musical forms, examines the development of electronic music and explains the spatial location in new music; the broader aspects of the composer's place in musical history and in the society in which he works are also considered. Particularly valuable is the section on Stockhausen's life, his friends and pupils; and the book includes the composer's own notes on his works. -- from back cover.
Download or read book Modern Music written by Paul Griffiths and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1981 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversations with Olivier Messiaen written by Claude Samuel and published by Stainer & Bell, Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Messiaen s Final Works written by Christopher Philip Dingle and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) completed the vast opera Saint Francois d'Assise in 1983, he was mentally and physically exhausted, and believed that this monumental work would be his final compositional statement. Seven further works emerged, however, and these form the focus of the present study. Christopher Dingle suggests that, following the crisis provoked by the opera, Messiaen's music underwent a discernable change in style. He examines these seven works to identify characteristics of the composer's music, in particular an often overlooked aspect of his technique: harmony.
Download or read book The Messiaen Companion written by Peter Hill and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Le Nombre Musical Gr gorien written by André Mocquereau and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions to the Spiritual World of Olivier Messiaen written by Almut Rössler and published by Gilles & Francke KG Verlag. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Only Thou Art Holy written by and published by Lorenz Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A majestic choral showcase, Only Thou Art Holy opens with mens and then womens voices singing Mary McDonalds inspired new musical setting of the traditional hymn text, Holy, Holy, Holy. Flowing triplet figures highlight Marys powerful accompaniment. The traditional hymn tune appears next and rises masterfully through sequencing keys and thickening textures, building to a glorious final verse with congregational singing. Mike Lawrences orchestration provides a stellar accompaniment option for this magnificent anthem.
Download or read book Messiaen written by Robert Sherlaw Johnson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Sherlaw Johnson's pioneering work on the music of Olivier Messiaen has become the foundation stone upon which all Messiaen scholarship is based. In it he discusses all Messiaen's main works, exploring his musical language, the development of his technique, his individual approach to harmony and rhythm, the theological and symbolic aspects of his music, and his use of birdsong. The appendices include a complete chronological list of works, a bibliography and a list of bird names. Messiaen died in 1992 aged 84. In between the publication of the last edition of this book in 1989 and this final, updated version he composed a further set of masterpieces that are more than a postscript to his compositional oeuvre. This new edition brings the book fully up to date on these and other works and offers additional assessment on Messiaen's influence as a composer. Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932-2000) was a lecturer in music at the University of Oxford and a fellow at Worchester College. He was also a composer and Pianist of note who recorded a number of Messiaen's works, including the Catalogue d'Oiseaux, of which he gave the first complete performance in Britain at Coventry Cathedral in 1973. This edition of his Messiaen study has been updated by Dr Caroline Rae.
