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Boulez, Pierre: Orientations (trans. Martin Cooper), (London, Faber and Faber, 1986).

Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship (trans. Stephen Walsh), (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991).

Bruhn, Siglind: Images and ideas in modern French piano music, (York, Pendragon Press, 1997).

Bruhn, Siglind (ed.): Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love, (London, Garland, 1998).

Cross, Jonathan: The Stravinsky Legacy, (Cambridge, 1998).

Drew, David: 'Messiaen: a provisional study', The Score, Dec. 1954, 33-49; Sept, 1955, 9-73; Dec. 1955, 41-61.

Griffiths, Paul: Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time, (London, Faber and Faber, 1985).

Hill, Peter (ed.): The Messiaen Companion, (London, Faber and Faber, 1995).

Hodeir, André: Since Debussy, (London, Secker and Warburg, 1961).

Hsu, Madeleine: Olivier Messiaen the Musical Mediator: a study of the influence of Liszt, Debussy and Bartók, (London, Associated University Press, 1996).

Johnson, Robert Sherlaw: Messiaen, (London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1975).

Messiaen, Olivier: (trans., E. Thomas Glasgow) Music and Color - Conversations with Claude Samuel, (Oregon, Amadeus Press, 1994).

The Music of Faith (LWT programme produced by Melvin Bragg, London, 1986).
(trans., John Satterfield) The Technique of my Musical Language, (Paris, Leduc, 1956).
Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie (1949-1992), Paris, Leduc, I/1994.

Nichols, Roger: Messiaen, (Oxford, 1975).

Oliver, Michael (ed.): Settling the score, (London, Faber and Faber, 1999).

Reverdy, Michèle: L'oeuvre pour piano d'Olivier Messiaen, (Paris, Leduc, 1978).

Rostand, Claude: French Music Today, (New York, Merlin Press, 1950).

Toorn, Pieter van den: Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring: The Beginnings of a Musical Language, (Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1987).

Walker, Alan (ed.): Franz Liszt: the Man and his Music, (London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1970).