Organ (Organ)
SKU:
HL.48182450
Composed
by Olivier Messiaen.
Leduc. Classical. CD. 72
pages. Alphonse Leduc
#AL23673. Published by
Alphonse Leduc
(HL.48182450).
UPC:
888680833015.
8.0x11.5x0.249
inches.
In this
edition written in
German, The Technique Of
My Musical Language by
Olivier Messiaen explains
the full theory behind
Messiaen?s compositions.
Enabling a better
understanding, this book
will help advanced
students and
professionals for the
interpretation of his
work, and is a must-have
for all composers. This
book includes the scales
of limited
transpositions,
well-known in Jazz, the
rhythmic permutations, as
well as other techniques.
Olivier Messiaen
(1908-1992) was a French
organist and composer
passionate about
Ornithology and one of
the most important
composer of his century.
Inspired by Japanese
music, he had a very
special way of composing
and his work can be
identified by its
complexity, its diatonic
aspect, its harmony with
limited transposition,
its colour and its
additive rhythms. He
composed many works
related to ornithology
and birdsong, including
the ''Bird Catalogue'' in
7 volumes and the
''Treatise on rhythm,
colour and ornithology''
in 7 volumes..