MESSIAEN

Meaning of MESSIAEN in English

/mes yahonn"/ , n.

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles /aw lee vyay" ue zhen" prddaw sperdd" shannrddl/ , 1908-92, French composer and organist.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

MESSIAEN — Messiaen BrE AmE ˈmes jɒ̃ -jɑːn AmE mes ˈjɑːn —French [ mɛ sjɑ̃, -sjæ̃ \]
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MESSIAEN, OLIVIER (-EUGÈNE-PROSPER-CHARLES) — Olivier Messiaen. born Dec. 10, 1908, Avignon, France died April 27, 1992, Clichy, near Paris French composer. At age 11 …
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MESSIAEN, OLIVIER — born Dec. 10, 1908, Avignon, France died April 27, 1992, Clichy, near Paris in full Olivier-eugne-prosper-charles Messiaen influential French composer, …
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MESSIAEN, OLIVIER -EUGÈNE-PROSPER-CHARLES — Olivier Messiaen. born Dec. 10, 1908, Avignon, France died April 27, 1992, Clichy, near Paris French composer. At age 11 …
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MESSIAEN, OLIVIER — Olivier Messiaen. born Dec. 10, 1908, Avignon, France died April 27, 1992, Clichy, near Paris French composer. At age 11 …
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GAMELAN — Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, …
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EUGÈNE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Atget Jean Eugène Auguste Beauharnais Eugène de Berthelot Pierre Eugène Marcellin Boudin Eugène Cavaignac …
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CHARLES — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Adams Charles Francis Addams Charles Samuel Atlas Charles Babbage Charles Barkley Charles Wade Charles …
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CAVAILLÉ-COLL, ARISTIDE — born Feb. 4, 1811, Montpellier, France died Oct. 13, 1899, Paris French organ builder. He settled in Paris in 1833 …
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BARRAQUÉ, JEAN — born Jan. 17, 1928, Puteaux, France died Aug. 17, 1973, Paris French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with …
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MODE — in music, any of several ways of ordering the notes of a scale according to the intervals they form with …
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LITURGICAL MUSIC — also called Church Music, music written for performance in a religious rite of worship; the term is most commonly associated …
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INSTRUMENTATION
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ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT — any musical instrument that produces or modifies sounds by electric, and usually electronic, means. The electronic element in such music …
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CHORAL MUSIC — music sung by a choir with two or more voices assigned to each part. Choral music is necessarily polyphonal-i.e., consisting …
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XENAKIS, IANNIS — born May 29, 1922, Braila, Romania Romanian-born French composer, architect, and mathematician who originated musique stochastique, music composed with the …
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STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ — born Aug. 22, 1928, Mdrath, near Cologne, Ger. German composer, an important creator and theoretician of electronic and serial music …
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NORMAN, JESSYE — born September 15, 1945, Augusta, Ga., U.S. Jessye Norman. American operatic soprano, one of the finest of her day, who …
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BOULEZ, PIERRE
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BOLCOM, WILLIAM — born May 26, 1938, Seattle, Wash., U.S. in full William Elden Bolcom American composer, pianist, and teacher whose compositions encompass …
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BLACKWOOD, EASLEY — born April 21, 1933, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S. American composer whose music combined rhapsodic and romantic passion with chromatic materials and …
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PERFORM
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GAMELAN — n. Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of …
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XENAKIS, IANNIS — born May 29, 1922, Br 0103; ila, Rom. died Feb. 4, 2001, Paris, France Romanian-born Greek-French composer. His Greek family …
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STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ — born Aug. 22, 1928, Mödrath, near Cologne, Ger. German composer. Orphaned during World War II, he supported himself with odd …
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EUGÈNE — Atget Jean Eugène Auguste Beauharnais Eugène de Berthelot Pierre Eugène Marcellin Boudin Eugène Cavaignac Louis Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Eugène Victor …
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CHARLES — Carolus Magnus Charles the Great Adams Charles Francis Addams Charles Samuel Atlas Charles Babbage Charles Barkley Charles Wade Charles Daly …
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CAVAILLÉ-COLL, ARISTIDE — born Feb. 4, 1811, Montpellier, France died Oct. 13, 1899, Paris French organ builder. He settled in Paris in 1833 …
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BOULEZ, PIERRE — born March 26, 1925, Montbrison, France French composer and conductor. Originally a student of mathematics, he later studied with the …
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BARRAQUÉ, JEAN — born Jan. 17, 1928, Puteaux, France died Aug. 17, 1973, Paris French composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with …
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COMPOSER — n. 25B6; noun melodist, symphonist, songwriter, songster, writer; informal tunesmith, songsmith. See list. Composers Albinoni, Tomaso (Italian) Lambert, Constant (English) …
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