2017 - 2018

0842-4540-01
  Olivier Messiaen - the Music, the Man                                                                
FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
Prof. Buchmann-Mehta School of Music013Mon1600-1800 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  2.0

Course description

This course is designed to familiarize the students with the music of Olivier Messiaen through a formal and hermeneutic analytical approach.

issues like the following will be explicated and discussed:

 

– mysticism and formalism in Messian's music.

– modality, dodecaphonism, and total serialism

– Messiaen's conception of time and rhythm

– the apocalyptic motif

– tension and "contradictions" in the mental world of Messiaen.

 

 

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