Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception
Techniques, Influence and Reception
- Editor: Dingle, Christopher
- Editor: Fallon, Robert
This pair of volumes ... raises the level of insightful scholarship to new heights. The editors and publishers must be congratulated on the production of these handsome volumes, replete with...
Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception
Techniques, Influence and Reception
- Editor: Dingle, Christopher
- Editor: Fallon, Robert
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This pair of volumes ... raises the level of insightful scholarship to new heights. The editors and publishers must be congratulated on the production of these handsome volumes, replete with...
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Focusing on Messiaen’s relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences examines the genesis, sources and cultural pressures that shaped Messiaen’s music. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception analyses Messiaen’s compositional approach and the repercussions of his music. While each book offers a coherent collection in itself, together these complementary volumes elucidate how powerfully Messiaen was embedded in his time and place, and how his music resonates ever more today. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception explores Messiaen’s imprint on recent musical life. The first part scrutinizes his compositional technique in terms of counterpoint, spectralism and later piano music, while the second charts ways in which Messiaen’s influence is manifest in the music and careers of Ohana, Xenakis, Murail and Quebecois composers. The third part includes case studies of Messiaen’s reception in Italy, Spain and the USA. The volume also includes an ornithological catalogue of Messiaen’s birds, collates information on the numerous ’tombeaux’ pieces he inspired, and concludes with a Critical Catalogue of Messiaen’s Musical Works.
Contents
- Contents: Introduction, Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
- Part I Techniques: Perspectives on techniques, Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
- Sacred machines: fear, mystery and transfiguration in Messiaen's mechanical procedures, Christopher Dingle
- La fauvette des jardins and the 'spectral attitude', Roderick Chadwick
- Aspects of compositional organization and stylistic innovation in Petites Esquisses d'oiseaux, David Kopp
- Messiaen's counterpoint, Christoph Neidhofer
- Intermede 1
- A catalogue of Messiaen's birds, Robert Fallon. Part II Influence: Perspectives on influence, Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
- Messiaen and Ohana: parallel preoccupations or anxiety of influence?, Caroline Rae
- The Messiaen-Xenakis conjunction, Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet
- From France to Quebec: Messiaen's transatlantic legacy, Heather White Luckow
- Messiaen and the spectralists, Marilyn Nonken
- Intermede II
- The tombeaux of Messiaen: at the intersection of influence and reception, Robert Fallon. Part III Reception: Perspectives on reception, Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
- The reception of Olivier Messiaen in Italy: a historical interpretation, Raffaele Pozzi
- Three decades of Messiaen's music in Spain: a brief survey, 1945-1978, German Gan-Quesada
- Placing Mount Messiaen, Robert Fallon
- Genesis and reception of Olivier Messiaen's Traite de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie, 1949-1992: toward a new reading of the composer's writings, Jean Boivin
- Appendix: a critical catalogue of Messiaen's musical works, Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
- Select bibliography
- Discography
- Index.
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This pair of volumes ... raises the level of insightful scholarship to new heights. The editors and publishers must be congratulated on the production of these handsome volumes, replete with extensive musical illustrations of high quality, surely a compliment to the perfectionist philosophy of their extraordinary subject
