Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond
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Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond

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Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond

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Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated. The composer's 1944 theoretical study, The Technique of My Musical Language, expounds only its initial stages, and while his posthumously published Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie contains detailed explanations of selected techniques, in most cases the reader is left to define these more precisely by observing them in the context of Messiaen's analyses of his own works. Technical processes are nevertheless in many cases the primary components of a work or movement. For instance, personnages dominate 'Joie du sang des étoiles' from the Turangalßla-symphonie, and in certain cases, such as 'L'échange' from the Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus, the process (asymmetric augmentation) is the only structuring element present. Given this reliance on idiosyncratic techniques, clear comprehension of the music is impossible without a detailed knowledge of Messiaen's methods. Gareth Healey charts their development and interconnections, considers their relationship with formal structures, and applies them in refined and extended form to works for which Messiaen himself left no published analysis.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317097112
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Music Examples
  7. List of Tables
  8. Companion Website
  9. Note on the Translations
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 The Theoretical and Analytical Writings of Messiaen
  12. 3 Theoretical and Written Sources
  13. 4 Extra-Musical Influences
  14. 5 The Influence of Debussy and Stravinsky
  15. 6 Rhythmic Evolution
  16. 7 Harmonic Evolution
  17. 8 Harmony: An Alternative Perspective
  18. 9 Form
  19. 10 Implementation of Analytical Methodology
  20. 11 Conclusion
  21. Appendix 1: Technical Inventory
  22. Appendix 2: Selected Work List
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index