2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0842-4540-01 | Olivier Messiaen - the Music, the Man | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.