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Sonority and Linear Structure in Three Early Works of Olivier Messiaen
… study I examine three early works of Olivier Messiaen: the motet <em>O sacrum convivium</em> (1937), "La colombe" from the eight piano preludes (1928-9), and the closing passage of "La fiancée perdue" from the song cycle <em>Trois méodies</em> (1930). All three works exhibit varying degrees of …
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The French Piano Prelude: Elizabeth Jacquet De La Guerre To Olivier Messiaen
… Guerre, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen and Cécile Chaminade.
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Understanding the Organ Music of Olivier Messiaen: Optical Illusions Versus Aural Realities
… thesis, I examine the organ music of Olivier Messiaen both from the viewpoint of a theorist and as an organist. I assert that not only his influences, but also his in-depth understandings of the mutations stops of the organ and what pitches are produced by using these stops inform Messiaen's …
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Comparative philology, French music, and the composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen.
… root system flourishes in the music of Olivier Messiaen, whose rhythmic technique is revisited in light of manuscript materials. From his borrowings of early Indian metres (deśītālas) through his hyperformalist ‘Mode de valeurs et d’intensités’, Messiaen’s rhythmic style is radically …
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Liberation of the Senses: An Exploration of Sound-color Synesthesia in the Music of Alexander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen
… on the synesthesia-inspired music of Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) and Alexander Scriabin (1872-1914). Special attention will be given to the comparison of Scriabin's Prometheus (1911), a piece calling for the projection of colored light to accompany the music as a visual representation of the …
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Doctoral thesis recital (cello)
Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Olivier Messiaen -- Requiem, op.66 / David Popper.
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Doctoral thesis recital (clarinet) chamber
Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Olivier Messiaen (with: Roman Yearian, violin ; Matt Armbruster, cello ; Farshad Tahvildar-Zadeh, piano).
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"Messiaen's ""Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus"": A historical and pedagogical study"
… preface to the score of Vingt Regards, Olivier Messiaen states that in the composition he was searching for a language of mystical love. With that preface, the investigator explained how this programmatic piano cycle can be interpreted by the performer and listener. Messiaen's musical language …
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Powerful Structures: The Wind Music of Ida Gotkovsky in Theory and Practice
… and more significantly to her teachers Olivier Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger. Having published more than twenty-two works for wind orchestra, Gotkovsky’s output for the medium has been continuous and impressive in scope. Her work represents bridges twentieth century French musical styles such as …
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Olivier Messiaen's Influence in the Violoncello Works of Toru Takemitsu
This monograph is an examination of Oliver Messiaen’s influence in the violoncello solo and chamber compositions of Tōru Takemitsu. A total of sixteen pieces: Le Son Calligraphie I (1958), Le Son Calligraphie III (1960), Scene (1959), Landscape (1960), Corona II (1962), Valeria (1969), Quatrain …
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An Analysis of Periodic Rhythmic Structures in the Music of Steve Reich and György Ligeti
… discussion of the music and writings of Olivier Messiaen as a precedent for the periodic structures in the music of Reich and Ligeti. I continue by consulting the writings of the Israeli musicologist Simha Arom and describing the usefulness of his ideas and terminology in the development of my …
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Developing an artificial colour-sound association for musical composition
Some great composers - Messiaen, Scriabin, Liszt in exemplum - have been found to have an internal colour world that responds to music and characterises the way they experience and express music. Many of these artists, it could be strongly argued, had the neurological trait synaesthesia. The …
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Young-Jo Lee's Variations on the theme of Baugogae: In search of his own language, a lecture recital, together with three recitals of selected works of J. Haydn, S. Rachmaninoff, R. Schumann, O. Messiaen, and F. Liszt
The objective of the dissertation is to examine Young-Jo Lee's (b. 1943) musical language as exhibited in his piano composition, Variations on the theme of Baugogae. Subjects of discussion include Lee's use of direct and indirect musical borrowings from past European composers and traditional …
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A Conductor’s Analysis of Almeida Prado’s Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark
… texture and tone color as found in the works of Messiaen, Debussy, and Schoenberg. Many European techniques were being recognized and incorporated into works of Brazilian composers that adhered to the avant-garde movement that took place in Brazil during the 1960s. Almeida Prado was one of the …
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Percy Graingers's "The Warriors--Music to an Imaginary Ballet". Innovations in orchestration. The addition of the melodic percussion section as an equal force in 20th century orchestral writing
… made to the compositions of Carl Orff, Olivier Messiaen and a number of late 20th century composers.
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Eclectic Compositional Styles in the Piano Works of Craig Walsh
… including impressionistic textures and the Messiaen-like chords.
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A study of time in twentieth-century musical ritual: a musico-philosophical development from Debussy (through Stravinsky, Webern and Messiaen) to Stockhausen, in the utilization of musical time and ecstatic musical involvement for the purpose of transcending the consciousness of Real Time and Space.
The study rests on a fundamental premise: The artist, in his art, reflects the consciousness of his time. "Man of a given time and place, in creating the ideological and artistic systems by which he has expressed himself, has projected into his philosophy, his literature, and his art a reflection …
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