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Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Landmarks in Music Since 1950
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What makes Oiseaux exotiques so important is that it is arguably
the first of Messiaen's major works to create a successful
synthesis between his music and his passion for ornithology. The
earliest composition to use birdsong to a significant extent was
the Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (1940-41). A newspaper interview a
few years later (France-Soir,1948) demonstrates Messiaen's growing
desire to move away from the stylisation that had characterized the
Quatuor towards a much greater realism, based on a close
observation of birds in their natural habitat. At the same time,
Messiaen continued to regard birdsong as music - and divinely
inspired music at that - a belief that led for a time to an
obsession with truth-to-nature. Against this background, Oiseaux
exotiques proves to be a landmark, the work in which Messiaen the
musician began to regain the upper hand over Messiaen the
ornithologist.The introductory chapter (Chapter 1) outlines the
background to Oiseaux exotiques, discussing Messiaen's relations
with the 1950s avant garde - in particular with his former pupil
Pierre Boulez - and his involvement with the concerts of the
Domaine musical, for which Oiseaux exotiques was composed. In
Chapter 2, access to Messiaen's sketches enables the authors to
analyse his compositional methods in unprecedented detail; a
generous number of music examples refer to birdsong recordings
actually used by Messiaen (which can be heard on the accompanying
CD), and trace step-by-step the evolution of musical ideas from
first notation to finished score. Chapter 3 provides a commentary
on the music, investigating issues of continuity and texture, and
revealing the processes underlying the score's dazzling profusion.
In two further chapters, Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone recount the
reception history of Oiseaux exotiques, and compare recorded
interpretations, taking as their point-of-departure the historic
premiere, included in full on the CD.Finally, the Conclusion
considers the implications of Oiseaux exotiques for the composer's
subsequent music, from the Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956-8) to the
later masterpieces of Messiaen's style oiseau.
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