Le Merle noir
Le Merle noir ("The
Blackbird") is a chamber work by the French composer Olivier Messiaen for flute and piano. It was written and first performed in 1952[1]
and is one of the composer's shortest independently published works, lasting just over five minutes. It has neither time signature nor key signature.
History
The composition originated in a commission for a test piece for
bird songs. While not his first work to incorporate stylised birdsong, Le Merle noir was the earliest of his pieces to use authentically transcribed birdsong,[4]
foreshadowing Messiaen's later, more extended birdsong-inspired pieces.
References
- ISBN 0-300-10907-5.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
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