Read:
Anthony Pople, "Messiaen's Musical Language: An Introduction"
Chart of the Modes of Limited Transposition
Chart of Messiaen's late chord types
Paul Griffiths, "Catalogue de Couleurs: Notes on Messiaen's Tone Colors on his 70th Birthday"
Alex Ross, "The Messenger"
"La Notes Juste. Julian Anderson Appraises the Work of the Enigmatic Giacinto Scelsi"
Further Reading:
Excerpts from Olivier Messiaen, Technique of my Musical Language (1944)
Amy Bauer, "The Impossible Charm of Messiaen's Chronochromie"
Cheong Wai-Ling, "Plainchants as Coloured Time in Messiaen's Couleurs de la Cité Céleste"
Robin Freeman, "The Life and Work of Giacinto Scelsi"
Tristan Murail, "Scelsi and L'Itinéraire: The Exploration of Sound"
Tristan Murail, "Scelsi, De-composer"
Listen:
Messiaen, Chronochromie, Introduction and Strophe I (1959–60)
Messiaen, Couleurs de la Cité Céleste (1963)
Scelsi, Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra (su una nota sola) [Four pieces each on a single note], for chamber orchestra (1959)
Scelsi, Anahit "Lyric Poem on the name of Venus" (for violin and 18 instruments) (1965)
Scelsi, String Quartet No. 3 (1963) (local streaming)
Scelsi, String Quartet No. 4 (1964)
Scores:
Chronochromie, Strophe I
Assignment: Choose either the Messiaen or Scelsi; due Feb, 1
1. Messiaen's Un Sourire, Word doc; pdf
Un Sourire (1989)
2. Scelsi, String Quartet No. 4, Word doc, pdf version
Resources:
The Giacinto Scelsi Foundation