Messiaen Studies

Contents

• 1. Messiaen in 1942: a working musician in occupied Paris Nigel Simeone;
• 2. Love, mad love and the Point Sublime: the Surrealist poetics of Messiaen's Harawi Robert Sholl;
• 3. Messiaen's journey towards asceticism Paul McNulty;
• 4. Forms of love: Messiaen's aesthetics of Eblouissement Sander van Maas;
• 5. Messiaen's mysterious birds Allen Forte;
• 6. Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux: a musical dumbshow? Jeremy Thurlow;
• 7. The impossible charm of Messiaen's Chronochromie Amy Bauer;
• 8. Composer as performer, recording as text: towards a 'manner of realisation' for Messiaen's music Andrew Shenton;
• 9. 'The art of the most intensive contrast': Olivier Messiaen's mosaic form up to its apotheosis in Saint Francois d'Assise Stefan Keym;
• 10. Two paths to paradise: reform in Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise Robert Fallon;
• 11. Messiaen and the twentieth century Arnold Whittall.