Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte, Christopher Brent Murray, Le modèle et l’invention: Messiaen et la technique de l’emprunt

This is an important and engrossing book: it will be essential reading for anybody wanting to delve into Messiaen’s creative processes beyond the composer’s own writings on his works (texts that are sometimes more notable for their length than for any insights into how he went about composing). Moreover, this detailed study by Balmer, Lacôte and Murray, very well illustrated with almost 500 musical examples, is a publication that should be of interest to anybody investigating models, influenc..