Tim writes:

>Messiaen said that the opening solo "should sound like a strangled
>chicken".  I wonder if Messiaen with his love of bird song ever used
>the strangled chicken motif in any of his works?

Not to my knowledge Tim, there's is a turkey though wandering around
somewhere in act 5 of St.  Francis of Assisie.  The subject of the opera
makes it of course highly improbable that we would strangle the poor
creature.

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