| Call # |
ML410.M595 M488 2010 |
| Phys. Description |
xvii, 290 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[271]-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Religious literature in Messiaen's personal library / Yves Balmer -- Messiaen as preacher and evangelist in the context of European modernism / Peter Bannister -- Messiaen's saintly naïveté / Sander von Maas -- Olivier Messiaen and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger : Two views of the liturgical reform according to the second vatican council / Karin Heller -- Messiaen's relationship to Jacques Maritain's musical circle and neo-thomism / Douglas Shadle -- Messiaen and Aquinas / Vincent P. Benitez -- Dante as guide to Messiaen's gothic spirituality / Robert Fallon -- Five quartets : The search for the still point of the turning world in the war quartets of T.S. Eliot and Olivier Messiaen / Andrew Shenton -- The charm of impossibilities : Mystic surrealism as contemplative voluptuousness / Stephen Schloesser -- 'Une œuvre simple, solennelle...' : Messiaen's commission from André Malraux / Nigel Simeone -- Olivier Messiaen and the avant-garde poetics of the Messe de la Pentecôte / Robert Sholl -- Messiaen as explorer in Livre du Saint Sacrement / Luke Berryman -- Buddhist temple, Shinto Shrine and the invisible god of Sept Haïkaï / Cheong Wai Ling. |
| Subject |
Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Alt Author |
Shenton, Andrew, 1962-
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| ISBN |
9780754666400 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0754666409 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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