... Philharmonic Orchestra under Basil Cameron. It also describes the triumphant premier of Poulenc's concert called Un Soir de neige, which happened at the same time as Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence divine. Bach Johann Sebastian Barrie James Matthew Beethoven Ludwig van Debussy...

...This chapter examines Olivier Messiaen's music drawing upon bird song. Arguing against François-Bernard Mâche's bioacoustic reading of Messiaen, it stresses the particularity of the temporal mode invoked by the composer. Messiaen's music speaks in a voice similar to those of apocalyptic utterances...

...Whether to categorize Olivier Messiaen’s music as “mystical” or “theological” has been an ongoing historiographical question for several decades. In this chapter, Stephen Schloesser argues that Messiaen’s shift from the mystical to the theological occurred around the year 1935, marked by Messiaen’s...

...This chapter attempts to answer the question about what Olivier Messiaen exactly had in mind with his compositions of religious music. It shows that there was a gradual shift in Messiaen's musical localization of religion. While his earlier works emphasize the sincerity of feelings, his later...

...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...

...This chapter examines the music of dazzlement in Olivier Messiaen's religious music composition based on the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion. It explains that Marion contrasts everyday experience to two exceptional phenomena that constitute a frame that may help interpret the phenomenon...

... André Trois petites liturgies de la Présence divine Messiaen Turangalîla Symphonie Messiaen Adorno Theodor Constant Marius Mari Pierrette Pincherle Marc Voice for the Silenced A series Classical Public Radio Network Olivier Messiaen André Jolivet occupied Paris prisoners of war The first...

... and 1940s by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. Unlike most other avant-garde composers, Messiaen was an organist and thus very interested in the organ and in trying to apply new compositional techniques to his instrument. The chapter also provides information on the Bremen concert in May 1962...

..., Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen was not only a prodigy, who began composing at the age of 6, but was also a synesthete, and his fascination with sound–colour relationships was to become a defining characteristic of his music. His synesthetic percepts were present from as far back as Messiaen himself could...

... provides details on every morceaux de concours written during Crunelle’s tenure, which range in style from conservative to serial and atonal. flute pedagogy Gaston Crunelle Paris Conservatory Henri Dutilleux Pierre Sancan André Jolivet Olivier Messiaen concours...

...This chapter examines the conflict between Olivier Messiaen's testimony on the hyperreligious qualities and the technicity in his music. It proposes a concept of technics that may be used for analyzing the singularity of breakthrough together with both structural possibility and empirical cases...

...This epilogue sums up the key findings about the religious music composition of Olivier Messiaen. It suggests that Messiaen's is far from exemplifying a Christian music of asceticism or contemptus mundi and that it remains deeply affirmative. In this respect, his work is close...

... Olivier Messiaen, and subsequent stylistic evolution greatly influenced his compositions. Obsession reveals a juxtaposition of traditional Japanese sound structures, drawing on the sound and tonal flexibility of the traditional Japanese instrument the hichiriki...

... of meditation, of testament, and of praise. It shows how Florentz translated ethnographical sources, especially Ethiopian liturgical chant, through mode, and it differentiates his work from that of Olivier Messiaen. Florentz extended Messiaen’s apocalyptic language of revelation and the communication of his own...

... perception Söffing Christine animation advantages and disadvantages of synaesthesia animation Wassily Kandinsky Olivier Messiaen Vladimir Nabokov synaesthesia Michael Torke C3.P1 As I write this chapter I am listening to one of my favourite pieces of piano music. It is called ‘Blue Pacific’, played...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage and objective of this book, which is to examine the role of French composer Olivier Messiaen on the reinvention of religious music. This book is driven by the conviction that one can aspire to come close to the phenomenon of the musicosacral...

...This chapter examines the connection and convergence between the religious music composition of Olivier Messiaen and the works and philosophy of Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Messiaen considers von Balthasar a major influence. However, the music of Messiaen appears to fall beyond...

...This chapter examines an aspect of breakthrough in Olivier Messiaen's religious music composition concerning listening “here” and listening in the “beyond”. It analyzes the Judeo-Christian tradition relevant to music hearing and listening. These are the circumcision of the ear and the notion...

... Borges Jorge Luis Pascal Blaise Apollo lunar missions Nabokov Vladimir Roeg Nicolas Proust Marcel Magritte René New Zealand Kant Immanuel Shakespeare William Stevenson Robert Louis Murnau F W religion Olivier Messiaen Eric Rohmer World War II Quartet for the End of Time Saint Francis...

...Professor Burton’s approach to nine early works of Olivier Messiaen is not that of a musicologist, but is based on a deep knowledge and understanding of the tradition and writings of French Catholicism and also of the literature of surrealism. He prises open, in any number of unexpected...