Bibliography

Messiaen’s Publications

With others: Vingt leçons de solfège moderne (Paris, Lemoine, 1933)

‘Ariane et Barbe-bleue de Paul Dukas’: Revue musicale, 166 (1936), pp. 79–86

‘Le rythme chez Igor Strawinsky’: Revue musicale, 191 (1939), pp. 91–2

Vingt leçons d’harmonie (Paris, Leduc, 1944; English translation, Leduc, 1957)

Technique de mon langage musical (Paris, Leduc, 1944; English translation, Leduc, 1956)

Preface to André Jolivet: Mana (Paris, Costallat, 1946)

‘Maurice Emmanuel: ses “trente chansons bourguignonnes’: Revue musicale, 206 (1947), p. 108

Conférence de Bruxelles (Paris, Leduc, 1958)

With Bernard Gavoty: ‘Who are you, Olivier Messiaen?’ Tempo, 58 (1961), pp. 33–6

Conférence de Notre-Dame (Paris, Leduc, 1978)

With Claude Samuel: Musique et couleur: nouveaux entretiens (Paris, Belfond, 1986)

Traité de rythme, de couleur et d’ornithologie (Paris, Leduc, in preparation)

Books on Messiaen

Ahrens, Sieglinde, Möller, Hans-Dieter, and Rössler, Almut: Das Orgelwerk Messiaens (Duisburg, Gilles und Francke, 1976)

Bell, Carla: Olivier Messiaen (Boston, Twayne, 1984)

Borum, Paul, and Christensen, Erik: Messiaen: en handbog (Copenhagen, Egtved, 1977)

Goléa, Antoine: Rencontres avec Olivier Messiaen (Paris, Julliard, 1960)

Griffiths, Paul: Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time (London/ Boston, Faber and Faber, 1985)

Halbreich, Harry: Olivier Messiaen (Paris, Fayard/SACEM, 1980)

Hirsbrunner, Theo: Olivier Messiaen: Leben und Werk (Laaber, Laaber-Verlag, 1988)

Hohlfeld-Ufer, Ingrid: Die musikalische Sprache Olivier Messiaens, dargestellt an dem Orgelzyklus ‘Die Pfingstmesse’; with Almut Rössler: Zur Interpretation der Orgelwerke Messiaens (Duisburg, Gilles und Francke, 1978)

Johnson, Robert Sherlaw: Messiaen (London, Dent, 1976, R/1989)

Mari, Pierrette: Olivier Messiaen: L’homme et son œuvre (Paris, Seghers, 1965)

Massin, Brigitte, Olivier Messiaen: une poetique de merveilleux (Aixen-Provence, Alinéa, 1989)

Metzger, Heinz-Klaus, and Riehn, Rainer (eds): Olivier Messiaen (Munich, Text + Kritik, 1982)

Morris, David: Messiaen: A Comparative Bibliography (Belfast, University of Ulster, 1991)

Nichols, Roger: Messiaen (London, Oxford University Press, 1975, 2/ 1986)

Perier, Alain: Messiaen (Paris, Seuil, 1979)

Reverdy, Michèle: L’œuvre pour piano d’Olivier Messiaen (Paris, Leduc, 1978)

Reverdy, Michèle: L’œuvre pour orchestre d’Olivier Messiaen (Paris, Leduc, 1988)

Rössler, Almut: Contributions to the Spiritual World of Olivier Messiaen (Duisburg, Gilles und Francke, 1986)

Rostand, Claude: Olivier Messiaen (Paris, Ventadour, 1958)

Samuel, Claude: Entretiens avec Olivier Messiaen (Paris, Belfond, 1967; English translation, London, 1976)

Samuel, Claude: Musique et couleur: nouveaux entretiens (Paris, Belfond, 1986)

Waumsley, Stuart: The Organ Music of Olivier Messiaen (Paris, Leduc, 1968)

Other Literature

Armfelt, Nicolas: ‘Emotion in the Music of Messiaen’, Musical Times, cvi (1965), pp. 856–8

Barraqué, Jean: ‘Rythme et dévéloppement’, Polyphonie, 9–10 (1954), PP. 47–73

Bernard, Jonathan W.: ‘Messiaen’s Synaesthesia: the Correspondence Between Color and Sound Structure in His Music’, Music Perception, iv (1986) pp. 41–68

Boulez, Pierre: ‘Olivier Messiaen’, Anhaltspunkte (Stuttgart and Zurich, Belser, 1975), pp. 154–62

Burkat, Leonard: ‘Turangalîla-symphonie’, Musical Quarterly, xxxvi (1950), pp. 259–68

Demuth, Norman: ‘Messiaen’s Early Birds’, Musical Times, ci (1960), pp. 627–9

Drew, David: ‘Messiaen: a Provisional Study’, The Score, 10 (1954), PP. 33–49; 13 (1955), PP. 59–73; 14 (1955), PP. 41–61

Evans, Adrian: ‘Olivier Messiaen in the Surrealist Context: a Bibliography’, Brio, xi (1975) pp. 25–35

Gardiner, Bennett: ‘Dialogues with Messiaen’, Musical Events, xxii (1967), pp. 6–9

Heiss, Hellmut: ‘Struktur und Symbolik in “Reprises par interversion” und “Les mains de l’abîme” aus Olivier Messiaens Livre d’orgue’, Zeitschrift für Musiktheorie, i/2 (1970) pp. 32–8

Hold, Trevor: ‘Messiaen’s Birds’, Music and Letters, lii (1971) pp. 113–22

Melos, xxv/12 (1958), Messiaen issue

Messiaen Festival Programme Book (Paris, La recherche artistique, 1978)

Morris, David, ‘A semiotic investigation of Messiaen’s “Abîme des oiseaux”’, Music Analysis, viii (1989) pp. 125–58

Musik-Konzepte, 28 (1982), Messiaen issue

Nichols, Roger, ‘Boulez on Messiaen’, Organists’ Review, lxxi/283 (August 1986/3), pp. 167–70

Nichols, Roger: ‘Messiaen’s “Le merle noir”: the Case of a Blackbird in a Historical Pie’, Musical Times, cxxix (1988), pp. 648–50

Samuel, Claude, ‘Discographie complète’, Diapason-Harmonie, 344 (December, 1988), pp. 78–9

Smalley, Roger, ‘Debussy and Messiaen’, Musical Times, cix (1968), pp. 128–31

Walker, Rosemary, ‘Modes and pitch-class sets in Messiaen: a Brief Discussion of “Première communion de la Vierge”’, Music Analysis, viii (1989), pp. 159–68

Watts, Harriet: ‘Canyons, Colours and Birds: an Interview with Olivier Messiaen’, Tempo, 128 (1979), pp. 2–8