Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)

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Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques. By Peter Hill and Nigel Simeonc. (Landmarks in Music since 1950.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xii, 128 p. 1SBN-10: 0754656306; ISBN-IS: 9780754656302. $69.95.] Compact disc, music examples, appendix, bibliography, discography, index.

In their book Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux ex-otiques, Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone examine a pivotal stage in Messiaen's compositional development when he turned to birdsong as a primary resource of musical material during the 1950s. Although Messiaen had incorporated stylized versions of birdsong ...

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