Olivier Messiaen''s Catalogue D''oiseaux - From Conception to Performance

This book charts Messiaen's transformation of birdsong into music and its development into a major work of the twentieth century.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Birdsong and the genesis of Catalogue d'oiseaux; 3. Beyond the birdsong of Catalogue d'oiseaux; 4. The first wave of composition; 5. The second wave of composition; 6. Performance; 7. Postlude.

About the author

Roderick Chadwick is Reader in Music at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and is an experienced performer of Messiaen's work. He has also produced critically acclaimed recordings of works by Stockhausen, Gloria Coates and Finnissy amongst others, and his writing has been included in Messiaen Perspectives 2 (2013).Peter Hill is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield, and his recording of Messiaen's complete piano works won praise from critics as well as from the composer himself. In 2005, he published a ground breaking biography, Messiaen, and in 2008 his work on Messiaen was recognized with the award of the annual prize for musical scholarship by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Summary

This book assembles a rounded picture of one of the longest and most important piano works of the twentieth century, including historical evaluation, analysis and performance studies. Accessibly written and containing unique insights into Messiaen's methods, this book will appeal to a range of readers including students, musicologists and pianists.

Product details

• Authors: Roderick Chadwick, Roderick (Royal Academy of Music Chadwick, Peter Hill, Peter (University of Sheffield) Hill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107000315
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00031-5
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Music in Context; Music in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Musikgeschichte, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music / Songbooks, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music