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Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time (Paperback, Main)
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Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time (Paperback, Main)
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Olivier Messiaen was one of the outstanding creative artists of his
time. The strength of his appeal, to listeners as well as to
composers, is a measure of the individuality of his music, which
draws on a vast range of sources: rhythms of twentieth-century
Europe and thirteenth-century India, ripe romantic harmony and
brittle birdsong, the sounds of Indonesian percussion and modern
electronic instruments. What binds all these together is, on one
level, his unswerving devotion to praising God in his art, and on
another, his independent view of how music is made. Messiaen's
music offers a range of ways of experiencing time: time suspended
in music of unparalleled changelessness, time racing in music of
wild exuberance, time repeating itself in vast cycles of
reiteration. In Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time, leading
writer and musicologist, Paul Griffiths, explores the problems of
religious art, and includes searching analyses and discussions of
all the major works, suggesting how they function as works of art
and not only as theological symbols. This comprehensive and
stimulating book covers the whole of Messiaen's output up to and
including his opera, Saint Francoise d'Assise.
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