Music by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Reading: Burge:  128-136

Listening (and looking!-- read Messiaen's notes in the various scores, too)

From Preludes (1928-1929): La Colombe (M25 M48 P7 c.4)
From Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus (1944): 1. Regard du Père; 11. Première communion de la vierge
(CD 2938 ,  M24 M48 V5 1947 c.2)
Quatre études de rythme, no. 1 (Ile de feu I) (M25 M48 E75), and no. 2 (Mode de valeurs et d'intensités) (1949-1950) (M25 M48 E76 2000) (CD 1261 has the pieces)
See if you can figure out how no. 2 works (look at Messiaen's pre-analysis in the score)
Catalogue d'oiseaux  (1956-58): Book 1, no. 2: Le Loriot. (Score M25 M48 C3 v.1) (CD 807)
Scores are on reserve.