«La marque du maître»: Messiaen's influence on Québécois composers Serge Garant, Clermont Pépin and André Prévost
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Abstract
This dissertation examines the influence of Olivier Messiaen upon three Québécois composers: Serge Garant (1929-1986), Clermont Pépin (1926-2006) and André Prévost (1934-2001). While the three developed different musical styles, their compositional techniques have much in common, which I attribute, in part, to the influence of their teacher. My thesis shows that this influence is most evident in the works written during and immediately after the three composers' studies with Messiaen. I compare and contrast techniques used by the three Québécois composers with Messiaen's own compositional devices. My analyses draw upon information from compositional sketches housed in archives in Montréal and Ottawa, program notes and prefaces to scores, the composers' self-analyses, and most importantly, their recollections about their experiences with their teacher. Garant's work most closely resembled that of Messiaen and he employed the greatest number of his techniques, but only for a very short time. Pépin employed the smallest number of his teacher's techniques, but was directly inspired by them, especially by the modes of limited transposition, throughout the first half of his career. Prévost represented a middleground between Garant and Pépin. Of the three, he was the most concerned with notions of symmetry—the guiding premise behind much of Messiaen's compositional language—and its manifestation in every structural level of his music.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".