
Published online:
10 March 2011
Published in print:
16 March 2009
Online ISBN:
9780823236695
Print ISBN:
9780823230570
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La Transfiguration: A Privileged Example La Transfiguration: A Privileged Example
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First Passage: Part VIII, “Et ecce vox de nube …” First Passage: Part VIII, “Et ecce vox de nube …”
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Second Passage: Part IX “… quia solus est” Second Passage: Part IX “… quia solus est”
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Prefatory Events Prefatory Events
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Breakthrough Breakthrough
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Framing Framing
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Third Passage: Part XII “Gloria in excelsis Deo!” Third Passage: Part XII “Gloria in excelsis Deo!”
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Fourth Passage: Part VII “Chorale of the Holy Mountain” Fourth Passage: Part VII “Chorale of the Holy Mountain”
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Fifth Passage: Part XIV “Chorale of the Light of Glory” Fifth Passage: Part XIV “Chorale of the Light of Glory”
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Windows and Expositions Windows and Expositions
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Cite
van Maas, Sander, 'Five Times Breakthrough', The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (New York, NY , 2009; online edn, Fordham Scholarship Online, 10 Mar. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823230570.003.0003, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the compositional side of the music of dazzlement of Olivier Messiaen's religious music. It analyzes five passages from La Transfiguration and suggests though that there are great mutual differences between them there are also a number of tendencies that they have in common. At the point of spectacle of breakthrough and dazzlement, Messiaen appears to be doing a great deal more than evoking synthetic effects in his music because there are aspects of narrativity and mise-en-scene in play that indicate a step beyond musical content in the direction of form.
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