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Messiaen's Final Works

Messiaen's Final Works

Hardcover

Music Reference

ISBN10: 0754606333
ISBN13: 9780754606338
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 3 2013
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
When Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) completed the vast opera Saint Francois d'Assise in 1983, he was mentally and physically exhausted, and believed that this monumental work would be his final compositional statement. Seven further works emerged, however, and these form the focus of the present study. Christopher Dingle suggests that, following the crisis provoked by the opera, Messiaen's music underwent a discernable change in style. He examines these seven works to identify characteristics of the composer's music, in particular an often overlooked aspect of his technique: harmony.

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