Olivier Messiaen's Liturgical Improvisations: A Theological Practice and its Resonances

奥利维尔·梅西安的礼拜仪式即兴创作：神学实践及其共鸣

• 批准号: 2435396
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birmingham City University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2435396
• 关键词: Olivier; Messiaen; Liturgical; Improvisations; Theological

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), one of the most innovative and influential composers of the twentieth century, also served as organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris. Pierre Boulez comments in his preface to Messiaen's Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie, that Messiaen's role as organist was "one of the most solid anchor-points of his musical thought." Much of his contribution to the liturgy in this role was improvised.The principal research question for this project is what can we learn about Messiaen's compositional practice by understanding his improvisations? Analysis of his improvisatory practice can only be complete with full understanding of its liturgical context, and of Messiaen's self-conception as a theological musician. Subsidiary questions will include from where does Messiaen draw his motivic material for improvisation; how does he develop this material; what can this tell us about his response to the liturgical context; how does this illuminate our understanding of his published organ works?The primary sources are sketch materials and recordings of his improvisations at La Trinité; these unpublished recordings have only recently been made available in the Messiaen Archive at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The project will analyse selected recordings relating them to their context in the catholic liturgy, to Messiaen's statements about liturgical and theological music, and to Messiaen's published works for organ. Although many of Messiaen's organ works originated in improvisation, the relationship between his improvisatory language and the worked-through act of composition remains to be established.Messiaen's musical sources will be identified and their treatment analysed and contextualised. I will develop an intertextual interpretation of Messiaen's musical-theological commentary, using the texts associated with the plainchant material, the specific office of the liturgical calendar and the development of this material in his improvisations. This underexplored aspect of Messiaen's musicianship will generate important insights into his wider compositional language.My undergraduate Theology degree, which included a special paper on Liturgy, constitutes a thorough grounding for contextual element; enhanced by my practical and self-reflective experience as a liturgical organist. My MA dissertation analysed recorded performances of Messiaen's organ compositions. Within the MA I have written inter alia about Charles Tournemire's L'Orgue Mystique (published 1927-32), a work which develops plainchant themes and relates to the composer's improvisations; about the responses of Parisian organists to the liturgical changes following the Second Vatican Council; and about Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899), the builder of La Trinité's organ.

奥利维耶·梅西安（1908-1992）是二十世纪最具创新性和影响力的作曲家之一，也是巴黎三位一体教堂的管风琴手。皮埃尔·布列兹（Pierre Boulez）在他为梅西安的《音律、音律与鸟类学》（Traité de rythme，de coupons，et d 'ornithologie）所作的序言中评论说，梅西安作为管风琴手的角色是“他音乐思想中最坚实的支点之一。“他在这个角色中对礼拜仪式的大部分贡献都是即兴创作的。这个项目的主要研究问题是，通过理解梅西安的即兴创作，我们能从他的作曲实践中了解到什么？分析他的即兴实践，只有在充分理解其礼仪背景，以及梅西安作为神学音乐家的自我概念的情况下才能完成。附带的问题包括梅西安从哪里获得即兴创作的动机材料;他如何发展这些材料;这能告诉我们他对礼拜仪式背景的反应;这如何阐明我们对他出版的管风琴作品的理解？主要来源是素描材料和他在La Trinité的即兴录音;这些未发表的录音最近才在法国国家图书馆的梅西安档案馆中提供。该项目将分析选定的录音，将其与天主教礼仪的背景，梅西安关于礼仪和神学音乐的陈述，以及梅西安为管风琴出版的作品联系起来。虽然梅西安的许多管风琴作品都是即兴创作的，但他的即兴语言和作曲的过程之间的关系仍然有待建立。梅西安的音乐来源将被确定，他们的处理分析和语境化。我将发展一个互文性的解释梅西安的音乐神学评论，使用文本相关的平原圣歌材料，具体的办公室的礼仪日历和发展，这种材料在他的即兴。梅西安音乐才能的这一未被充分发掘的方面将对他更广泛的作曲语言产生重要的见解。我的本科神学学位，其中包括一篇关于礼拜仪式的特别论文，构成了背景元素的彻底基础;我作为礼拜仪式管风琴手的实践和自我反思经验增强了这一点。我的硕士论文分析了梅西安管风琴作品的录音表演。在艺术硕士课程中，我写了阿利亚关于查尔斯·图尔内迈尔的《风琴的奥秘》（1927- 1932年出版）的文章，这部作品发展了朴素的圣歌主题，并与作曲家的即兴创作有关;关于巴黎风琴师对第二次梵蒂冈理事会后礼拜仪式变化的反应;以及关于三位一体风琴的建造者阿里斯蒂德·卡瓦耶-科尔（1811-1899年）。