Exposition

Representing Birdsong in Messiaen's Organ Music (2019)

J.P.T. Lanooy
no media files associated
open exposition

About this exposition

Birdsong plays an important part within the complete oeuvre of Olivier Messiaen. In the majority of his works, he incorporated songs and calls of real-life birds. In this exposition, the accuracy of those bird incorporations is investigated through analyzing two birds of the 'Communion' of the 'Messe de la Pentecôte': the blackbird and nightingale, In other words, to what extent Messiaen's 'musical' birds correspond to their real-life counterparts? Besides, I have discussed how to represent those birds on a Dutch eighteenth-century organ and which compromises you have to make with regard to organ stops.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsBirdsong, Spectrograms, Color, Organ stops, Olivier Messiaen
date04/03/2019
published01/10/2019
last modified01/10/2019
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightJan Pieter Lanooij
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/470051/470052
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


Copyrights


Comments are only available for registered users.