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The technique of my musical language : text with musical examples /

Title:
The technique of my musical language : text with musical examples /
Author:
Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
The charm of impossibilities and the relation of the different subject matters -- Râgavardhana, Hindu rhythm -- Rhythms with added values -- Augmented or diminished rhythms and a table of these rhythms -- Nonretrogradable rhythms -- Polyrhythm and rhythmic pedals -- Rhythmic notations -- Melody and melodic contours -- Bird song -- Melodic development -- Song-sentence, binary and ternary sentences --Fugue, sonata, plainchant forms -- Harmony, Debussy, added notes --Special chords, clusters of chords, and a list of connections of chords -- Enlargement of foreign notes, upbeats and terminations -- Modes of limited transpositions -- Modulations of these modes and their relation to the major tonality -- Relation of these modes to modal, atonal, polytonal, and quarter-tone music -- Polymodality -- Catalogue of works.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
MT6.M47 T4 2001 – Available