Item Detail
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Benitez, Vincent Perez
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Olivier Messiaen : a research and information guide
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Book
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Routledge music bibliographies
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New York, N.Y.
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2008
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Routledge
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xvii, 334 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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9780415973724; 0415973724; 9780203935583 (ebook) ; 0203935586 (ebook)
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Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992--Bibliography.
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ML 134 .M54 G72 1989
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Benitez, Vincent P. Olivier Messiaen: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge Music Bibliographies. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.
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Presents researchers with the most significant and helpful resources on Messiaen published between 1930 and 2007.
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From the preface: “Sources have been included based on the following criteria: 1) Primary sources such as manuscript collection, writings, didactic treatises, lectures, prefaces, interviews, correspondence, and documentaries; 2) Translations of primary sources; 3) Entire books, monographs, and essay collections devoted to Messiaen; 4) Articles devoted to Messiaen in scholarly journals; 5) Short essays or essays of marginal research value that are on topics on which relatively little has been written; 6) Essays of marginal research value by famous authors (e.g., Ned Rorem); 7) Noteworthy Ph.D. dissertations, selected high quality doctoral documents, and master’s theses on Messiaen from various North American and British universities; 8) Significant discussions of Messiaen within sources devoted to other topics, such as articles, essays in collections, books, music history and music theory textbooks, dissertations, dictionaries, and encyclopedias; 9) Selected reviews of books, essay collections, monographs, treatises, world premiers, and significant performances of Messiaen’s works; and 10) Web sites devoted to Messiaen, including competitions, conferences, and festivals. Sources have been excluded based on the following criteria: 1) Sources written in less common languages, such as Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Slovenian. Due to the selective nature of this research guide, Italian and Spanish are also excluded. However, some representative entries in Italian are included because of their significance to the Messiaen literature; 2) Liner notes by Messiaen for recordings, which are duplicated in the primary and secondary literature; 3) Reviews of published editions; 4) Review of recordings; 5) With a few exceptions, newspaper and magazine articles; 6) Conference presentations; and 7) Honors theses.”
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An introductory chapter offers a short biography of Messiaen, a consideration of his musical style and works, and a discussion of Messiaen studies. Chapters 2 and 3 concentrate on the primary literature organized around the following categories: 1) manuscript collections; 2) articles and reviews; 3) pedagogical works; 4) lectures and librettos; 5) prefaces; 6) interviews; 7) correspondence; and 8) documentaries and filmed performances. Chapters 4 trough 9, the main body of the book, focus on the secondary literature, namely: 1) biographical and stylistic studies; 2) topical examinations; 3) discussions of particular works; 4) accounts of Messiaen in works devoted to other topics; 5) reviews of books and significant performances of Messiaen’s music; and 6) examinations of source materials on the Internet. Each citation is assigned a unique sequence number and includes the following information as appropriate for books and articles: author(s); titles; editor(s); translator(s); publication information; and ISBN, ISSN, and Library of Congress call numbers. Also provides a selected discography.
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Hart, Brian. Music Reference Services Quarterly 12 (January-June 2009): 61-63.http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rih&AN=2008-00031-2&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Dingle, Christopher. Tempo: A Quarterly Review of Modern Music 62 (October 2008): 70-72.http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rih&AN=2008-00031-1&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Dutch Journal of Music Theory / Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie 13 (May 2008): 184. -
Briana Wright
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BYU Mus Ref
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