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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 book

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

DOI link for Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond

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

ByGareth Healey
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315595078
Pages 224 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315595078
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Healey, G. (2013). Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315595078

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 Turangalîla-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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|8 pages

The Theoretical and Analytical Writings of Messiaen

chapter 3|14 pages

Theoretical and Written Sources

chapter 4|18 pages

Extra-Musical Influences

chapter 5|21 pages

The Influence of Debussy and Stravinsky

chapter 6|17 pages

Rhythmic Evolution

chapter 7|14 pages

Harmonic Evolution

chapter 8|14 pages

Harmony: An Alternative Perspective

chapter 9|22 pages

Form

chapter 10|30 pages

Implementation of Analytical Methodology

chapter 11|4 pages

Conclusion

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