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Messiaen's Contemplations of Covenant and Incarnation

Siglind Bruhn

Pendragon Press

PO Box 190, Hillsdale, NY 12529

9781576471296, $36.00 www.pendragonpress.com 1-518-325-6100

German-born Musicologist and concert pianist Siglind Bruhn presents Messiaen's Contemplations of Covenant and Incarnation: Musical Symbols of Faith in the Two Great Piano Cycles of the 1940s, a scholarly, hermeneutic analysis of two spiritually motivated...

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