“THEME OF THE STAR AND THE CROSS” – CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS IN OLIVIER MESSIAEN’S “VINGT REGARDS SUR L’ENFANT-JESUS”

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB MUSICA, Volume 70 (LXX), Special Issue 1, July 2025, pp. 263-281, DOI: 10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss1.15en-US
dc.creatorRAD, Raluca
dc.date2025-07-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T20:20:46Z
dc.descriptionOlivier Messiaen wanted his music to express of his profound Catholic faith, and many of his instrumental works written for the concert hall have an overt religious message. The Star of Bethlehem and the Cross of Golgotha, the most powerful symbols of Christianity, stand at the beginning and the end of Christ’s earthly life. The connection between the birth of Jesus and His death on the cross in theological texts and pictorial representations in Christian art is briefly surveyed. The study focuses on the way Messiaen gave a musical expression to this connection by using similar motifs and themes in movements depicting the joy of the Nativity and movements expressing the sorrow of the Passion. Relevant movements in which the composer uses the so-called Boris motif are presented, followed by an in-depth analysis of the “Theme of the star and the cross” in the piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/9415
dc.identifier10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss1.15
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/2419
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbmusica/article/view/9415/9098
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2025 Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Musicaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Musica; Volume 70, Special Issue 1, July 2025; 263-281en-US
dc.source2065-9628
dc.source1844-4369
dc.source10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss1
dc.subjectMessiaenen-US
dc.subjecttheologyen-US
dc.subjectChristian symbolsen-US
dc.subjectNativity and Passionen-US
dc.subjectarten-US
dc.subjectmusical analysisen-US
dc.title“THEME OF THE STAR AND THE CROSS” – CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS IN OLIVIER MESSIAEN’S “VINGT REGARDS SUR L’ENFANT-JESUS”en-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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