Messiaen Studies
Cambridge University Press
9780521839815 - Messiaen Studies - Edited by Robert Sholl
Table of Contents
Contents
| List of contributors [viii] | |
| Acknowledgements [ix] | |
| 1 | Messiaen in 1942: a working musician in occupied Paris Nigel Simeone [1] |
| 2 | Love, Mad Love and the ‘point sublime’: the Surrealist poetics of Messiaen’s Harawi Robert Sholl [34] |
| 3 | Messiaen’s journey towards asceticism Paul McNulty [63] |
| 4 | Forms of love: Messiaen’s aesthetics of éblouissement Sander van Maas [78] |
| 5 | Messiaen’s mysterious birds Allen Forte [101] |
| 6 | Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux: a musical dumbshow? Jeremy Thurlow [119] |
| 7 | The impossible charm of Messiaen’s Chronochromie Amy Bauer [145] |
| 8 | Composer as performer, recording as text: notes towards a ‘manner of realization’ for Messiaen’s music Andrew Shenton [168] |
| 9 | ‘The art of the most intensive contrast’: Olivier Messiaen’s mosaic form up to its apotheosis in Saint François d’Assise Stefan Keym [188] |
| 10 | Two paths to paradise: reform in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise Robert Fallon [206] |
| 11 | Messiaen and twentieth-century music Arnold Whittall [232] |
| Index [254] |
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