Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception (Paperback)

Introduction; 1: Techniques; 1: Sacred Machines: Fear, Mystery and Transfiguration in Messiaen's Mechanical Procedures 1; 2: La Fauvette des jardins and the ‘Spectral Attitude'; 3: Aspects of Compositional Organization and Stylistic Innovation in Petites Esquisses d'oiseaux; 4: Messiaen's Counterpoint 1; 1: Intermede 1; 5: A Catalogue of Messiaen's Birds; 2: Influence; 6: Messiaen and Ohana: Parallel Preoccupations or Anxiety of Influence?; 7: The Messiaen?Xenakis Conjunction 1; 8: From France to Quebec: Messiaen's Transatlantic Legacy; 9: Messiaen and the Spectralists; 2: Intermede 2; 10: The Tombeaux of Messiaen: At the Intersection of Influence and Reception; 3: Reception; 11: The Reception of Olivier Messiaen in Italy: A Historical Interpretation 1; 12: Three Decades of Messiaen's Music in Spain: A Brief Survey, 1945?1978; 13: Placing Mount Messiaen 1; 14: Genesis and Reception of Olivier Messiaen's Traite de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie, 1949?1992: Toward a New Reading of the Composer's Writings 1