Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond
Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been…
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Messiaen's Musical Techniques: The Composer's View and Beyond
Despite Messiaen's position as one of the greatest technical innovators of the twentieth century, his musical language has not been comprehensively defined and investigated. Technical processes are nevertheless in many cases the primary components of a work or movement. The composer's 1944 theoretical study, The Technique of My Musical Language, expounds only its initial stages, and while his posthumously published Trait de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie contains detailed explanations of selected techniques, in most cases the reader is left to define these more precisely by observing them in the context of Messiaen's analyses of his own works.
For instance, personnages dominate 'Joie du sang des toiles' from the Turangal (R)la-symphonie, and in certain cases, such as 'L' change' from the Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-J sus, the process (asymmetric augmentation) is the only
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