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    An exploration of Olivier Messiaen's piano style and application of color in "Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jesus" and "Le courlis cendre"

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    Author
    Dukes, Leslie Dianne
    Issue Date
    1998
    Keywords
    Music.
    Advisor
    Fernandez, Nohema
    
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    The University of Arizona.
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    This study includes discussion and clarification of the phenomenon of synesthesia and its significance in Messiaen's compositional technique. Messiaen described chords as "sound complexes," and maintained that complexes of sound, not the individual tone, produces color. The composer created sounds intended to evoke visual perceptions of specific colors. His color-music concept is discussed through examination of two pieces from his works for solo piano, Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jesus (from Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus, XV), and Le courlis cendre (from Catalogue d'oiseaux, XIII). This study demonstrates that within Messiaen's piano repertory there is internal consistency in his use of pitch, register, harmony, mode, rhythm, timbre, and texture to suggest light and color in music. Messiaen's extra-musical references to color may be literal or metaphorical. However subjective the composer's inspiration of sound/color/light may be for a work's inception, the compositional devices used are exacting, substantive, and phenomenological.
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    D.M.A.
    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    Graduate College
    Music and Dance
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    University of Arizona
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