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Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Pendragon Press
The celebrated composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) characterized himself as a rhythmician, ornithologist, and theologian.All interpreters concur that his life
Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge
Andrew Shenton's groundbreaking cross-disciplinary approach to Messiaen's music presents a systematic and detailed examination of the compositional techniques o
Language: en
Pages: 378
Pages: 378
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge
When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a man apart; a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were God and Nature and a
Language: en
Pages: 428
Pages: 428
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
Gillock supplies details about the organ at La Trinité in Paris, the instrument for which most of Messiaen's pieces were imagined.
Language: en
Pages: 462
Pages: 462
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
With access to Messiaen's private archive, the authors have been able to trace the origins of many of his greatest works and place them in the context of his li