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Description - Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception by Assistant Course Director Christopher Dingle

Focusing on Messiaen s relation to history - both his own and the history he engendered - the Messiaen Perspectives volumes convey the growing understanding of his deep and varied interconnections with his cultural milieux. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influences examines the genesis, sources and cultural pressures that shaped Messiaen s music. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception analyses Messiaen s compositional approach and the repercussions of his music. While each book offers a coherent collection in itself, together these complementary volumes elucidate how powerfully Messiaen was embedded in his time and place, and how his music resonates ever more today. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception explores Messiaen s imprint on recent musical life. The first part scrutinizes his compositional technique in terms of counterpoint, spectralism and later piano music, while the second charts ways in which Messiaen s influence is manifest in the music and careers of Ohana, Xenakis, Murail and Quebecois composers. The third part includes case studies of Messiaen s reception in Italy, Spain and the USA. The volume also includes an ornithological catalogue of Messiaen s birds, collates information on the numerous tombeaux pieces he inspired, and concludes with a Critical Catalogue of Messiaen s Musical Works."

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