Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception

465 Pages·2013·4.618 MB·English

by  Christopher Dingle, Robert Fallon

Messiaen PersPectives 2:
techniques, influence and recePtion
For Claude Samuel
Messiaen Perspectives 2:
Techniques, Influence
and reception
edited by
christoPher dingle
Birmingham Conservatoire, UK
robert fallon
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
© christopher dingle, robert fallon and the contributors 2013
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Messiaen perspectives / edited by christopher dingle and robert fallon.
volumes cm
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2696-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4724-1517-2 (ebook)
— ISBN 978-1-4724-1518-9 (epub) 1. Messiaen, Olivier, 1908–1992—Criticism and
interpretation. i. dingle, christopher Philip, editor. ii. fallon, robert, editor.
Ml410.M595M494 2013
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Figures and Tables xi
List of Music Examples xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Editors’ Note xix
Introduction 1
Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
Part I technIques
Perspectives on Techniques 9
Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
1 Sacred Machines: Fear, Mystery and Transfiguration in Messiaen’s
Mechanical Procedures 13
Christopher Dingle
2 La Fauvette des jardins and the ‘Spectral Attitude’ 33
Roderick Chadwick
3 Aspects of Compositional Organization and Stylistic Innovation in
Petites Esquisses d’oiseaux 51
David Kopp
4 Messiaen’s Counterpoint 77
Christoph Neidhöfer
Intermède 1
5 A Catalogue of Messiaen’s Birds 113
Robert Fallon
vi Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception
Part II Influence
Perspectives on Influence 149
Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
6 Messiaen and Ohana: Parallel Preoccupations or Anxiety
of Influence? 153
Caroline Rae
7 The Messiaen–Xenakis Conjunction 175
Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet
8 From France to Quebec: Messiaen’s Transatlantic Legacy 201
Heather White Luckow
9 Messiaen and the Spectralists 227
Marilyn Nonken
Intermède 2
10 The Tombeaux of Messiaen: At the Intersection of Influence
and Reception 243
Robert Fallon
Part III recePtIon
Perspectives on Reception 277
Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
11 The Reception of Olivier Messiaen in Italy: A Historical
Interpretation 281
Raffaele Pozzi
12 Three Decades of Messiaen’s Music in Spain: A Brief Survey,
1945–1978 301
Germán Gan-Quesada
13 Placing Mount Messiaen 323
Robert Fallon
Contents vii
14 Genesis and Reception of Olivier Messiaen’s Traité de rythme,
de couleur, et d’ornithologie, 1949–1992: Toward a New Reading
of the Composer’s Writings 341
Jean Boivin
Appendix: A Critical Catalogue of Messiaen’s Musical Works 363
Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon
Select Bibliography 407
Discography 427
Notes on Contributors 429
Index 435
Contents of Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences 443
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List of Illustrations
6.1 Leaflet for Le Groupe Musical Le Zodiaque concert at the Salle
Gaveau, 29 April 1949 158
7.1 Olivier Messiaen decorating Iannis Xenakis with the Légion
d’Honneur in Xenakis’s apartment on the Rue Chaptal 176
12.1 Dedication by Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod to Maurice
Legendre, director of the ‘Casa de Velázquez’ in Madrid
(28 March 1949) 306
12.2 Concert programme of the Pianist Pilar Bayona (Zaragoza,
10 January 1951), featuring ‘Regard des prophètes, des bergers
et des Mages’ by Olivier Messiaeu (sic). Archivo Pilar Bayona,
Madrid 310
a) Front and back cover 310
b) Inside pages 311
12.3 Luis de Pablo, ‘Clave y ejemplo’, La Estafeta literaria, 188
(1 March 1960): 20 317