Bird Voices in the Piano Cycle of Olivier Messiaen: on the Problem of New Musical Material

Author(s):  
Jiayan Sun
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2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Berit Belt
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Tempo ◽  
1961 ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Messiaen ◽  
Bernard Gavoty

The following discussion between Olivier Messiaen and Bernard Gavoty, music critic of Figaro, took place at a Youth Music concert in Paris in February of this year immediately before a performance of Messiaen's Trois petites Liturgies de la présence divine. It was subsequently published in the Journal Musical Français to whom we are indebted for permission to print the following translation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-104
Author(s):  
Marina V. Smirnova ◽  
Anna A. Shtrom

This article analyzes pages from the piano heritage of D. Kabalevsky, which is addressed to the children studying in children musical schools and art schools. The creative image of the musician is revealed through the prism of his multifaceted artistic and social activity, the assessment of which has undergone some revision nowadays. The article also discusses the reasons of why many previously popular works of famous Soviet composers have faded into the shadow. It is emphasized that Kabalevsky was a graduate of the Piano Faculty of the State Moscow Conservatory and has inherited the wonderful traditions of his teacher, A. B. Goldenweiser. The best traditions of the Moscow piano school are used by Kabalevsky as bases in his creative activity, which acquires specific value in the field of music. Today, when the method of young musicians training is going through innovative transformations, this aspect should be especially considered. The high artistic and instructive value of the composer’s piano heritage is noted. The pieces of the piano cycle “From the Pioneer Life,” op. 14, are methodologically analyzed. It is concluded that Kabalevsky’s cycles addressed to children have not lost their artistic and pedagogical value and therefore can be used in the modern pedagogical practice in their entirety. As for the cycles dedicated to the pioneers’ life, they could play an important educational role by raising the younger generation’s interest in one of the most captivating pages of the country’s past.


2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-193
Author(s):  
Dávid Diósi
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Olivier Messiaen wurde ein Leben lang nicht müde zu betonen, dass sein katholischer Glaube bereits in seinem Elternhaus in die Wiege gelegt worden sei. Bei einem Komponisten, der sein Leben lang religiöse bzw. theologische Werke las, diese verinnerlichte und seine Ideenwelt davon beeinflussen ließ, durfte uns schwer fallen, seine Musik als Ausdruck subjektiver Frömmigkeit, Religiosität und Glaubensüberzeugung zu bezweifeln. Er erkennt in allem, was in die Welt und in das Leben der Menschen vom Schöpfer geheimnisvoll und wunderbar eingepflanzt ist, die unverwechselbare Handschrift Gottes. Seine Musik, die christozentrisch den kirchlichen in der Liturgie und während des Kirchenjahres gefeierten Mysterien des Erlösungsgeschehens kompositorisch Ausdruck verleiht, ist ein Lobpreis der Herrlichkeit des allgegenwärtigen und wirkungsmächtigen Gottes. Im Folgenden versuchen wir das ästhetische Credo Messiaens und seine Musikotheologie kurz vorzustellen.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-125
Author(s):  
E. O. Tsvetkova ◽  

The article analyzes two versions of choreographic interpretation of S. Prokofiev's piano cycle "Fleeting Moments". The first one belongs to the outstanding Russian ballet master K. Ya. Goleizovsky, the second — to the German choreographer of American origin J. Neumeier. Both compositions are considered in the context of such a trend as "plastic interpretation of non-ballet music". There is a special demand for S. Prokofiev's works (not only ballet scores, but also "non-ballet" opuses) among choreographers, who are attracted by the theatrical nature of the composer's talent: brightness and sharpness of musical characteristics, reliance on "sound gesture", ability to reproduce rhythmic intonation of mood. The "Fleeting Moments" cycle as a whole and in terms of individual pieces is analyzed from the standpoint of openness to choreographic embodiment and compliance with canonical ballet forms and situations. It is underlined that in Goleizovsky's ballet a deeply felt emotion is brought to the fore. Due to the precise adherence to the logic of musical development, conceived as chamber-like this composition embodies the prototype of choreographic symphonism. In Neumeier's ballet, on the contrary, the dramatic plot is emphasized. The choreographer achieves an extraordinary impact by combining classical and modern elements in choreographic vocabulary, supplementing them with movements of free plasticity.


1998 ◽  
pp. 403-405
Author(s):  
Michael Struck-Schloen
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