Olivier Messiaen: The Technique of My Musical Language, 2 Vols. (1944/1956)

In this relatively brief book, Messiaen has laid out a clear outline of certain principles of construction he has employed in composition. The second volume consists of musical examples taken from the French original.

First published in French as Technique de mon langage musical, Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 1944
Translated by John Satterfield
Publisher Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 1956
ISBN 0685148270, 9780685148273
74 and 61 pages

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Sherman Van Solkema (ed.): The New Worlds of Edgard Varèse: A Symposium (1979)

A volume following a symposium on Varèse’s music held at the City University of New York in April 1977. With papers by Elliott Carter, Chou Wen-Chung, and Robert P. Morgan.

Publisher Institute for Studies in American Music, Department of Music, School of Performing Arts, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1979
I.S.A.M. Monographs, No. 11
ISBN 0914678116
90 pages

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Tōru Takemitsu: Confronting Silence: Selected Writings (1995)

“In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.”

Translated and edited by Yoshiko Kakudo and Glenn Glasow
With a Foreword by Seiji Ozawa
Publisher Scarecrow Press, 1995
Fallen Leaf Monographs on Contemporary Composers series
ISBN 1461664845, 9781461664840
156 pages
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