Messiaens Musical Techniques The Composers View And Beyond

Despite Messiaens Position As One Of The Greatest Technical Innovators Of The Twentieth Century, His Musical Language Has Not Been Comprehensively Defined And Investigated. The Composers 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 Dornithologie 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 Messiaens Analyses Of His Own Works. Technical Processes Are Nevertheless In Many Cases The Primary Components Of A Work Or Movement.