Performing Messiaen's Organ Music
Title | Performing Messiaen's Organ Music PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Gillock |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0253353734 |
Gillock supplies details about the organ at La Trinité in Paris, the instrument for which most of Messiaen's pieces were imagined.
Twentieth-Century Organ Music
Title | Twentieth-Century Organ Music PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher S. Anderson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2013-06-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1136497897 |
This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time of unprecedented change for organ music, not only in its composition and performance but also in the standards of instrument design and building. Organ music was anything but immune to the complex musical, intellectual, and socio-political climate of the time. Twentieth-Century Organ Music examines the organ's repertory from the entire period, contextualizing it against the background of important social and cultural trends. In a collection of twelve essays, experienced scholars survey the dominant geographic centers of organ music (France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the United States, and German-speaking countries) and investigate the composers who made important contributions to the repertory (Reger in Germany, Messiaen in France, Ligeti in Eastern and Central Europe, Howells in Great Britain). Twentieth-Century Organ Music provides a fresh vantage point from which to view one of the twentieth century's most diverse and engaging musical spheres.
Olivier Messiaen
Title | Olivier Messiaen PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Benitez |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2017-09-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 135158913X |
Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide, Second Edition presents researchers with the most significant and helpful resources on Olivier Messiaen, one of the twentieth century's greatest composers. With multiple indices, this annotated bibliography will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field. The second edition has been fully revised and updated.
'Orpheus the Explorer'
Title | 'Orpheus the Explorer' PDF eBook |
Author | Simon John Dunbavand |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Organ Music of Olivier Messiaen
Title | The Organ Music of Olivier Messiaen PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Waumsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Composers |
ISBN |
Messiaen
Title | Messiaen PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hill |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780300109078 |
With access to Messiaen's private archive, the authors have been able to trace the origins of many of his greatest works and place them in the context of his life. --book jacket.
The Rest Is Noise
Title | The Rest Is Noise PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Ross |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.