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Messiaen's Musical Language on the Holy Child: A Study of Vingt Regards Sur l'Enfant-Jesus, No: XIX: Je Dors, Mais Mon Coeur Veille, No: XIV: Regard

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by Cagdas Soylar

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Cagdas Soylar
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Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published
October 2018

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Olivier Messiaen was a prominent twentieth-century French composer. His musical language includes highly complicated concepts derived from a variety of sources. Hindu rhythms, Greek rhythms, and bird calls influenced him deeply; his Catholic faith, however, had the greatest impact on his compositions. I provide a detailed analysis of two religiously motivated pieces from his Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus (Twenty Gazes upon the Infant Jesus), one of the most remarkable solo piano works of the twentieth-century, to explore how he integrates the Christian theology into his musical language. Je dors, mais mon c