The technique of my musical language
Subtitle: text with musical examples
By: by Olivier Messiaen ; translated by John Satterfield
Contributors: Satterfield, John, 1921-2004
Publisher: [United Music Publishers]; Alphonse Leduc
Place of publication: [Essex, UK]; Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9782856890585
Subjects: Music theory
Work titles: Technique de mon langage musical
Notes: Originally published in two volumes.

"Olivier Messiaen catalogue of works": pages 109-111.
Table of contents: title: The charm of impossibilities and the relation of the different subject matters; title: Râgavardhana, Hindu rhythm; title: Rhythms with added values; title: Augmented or diminished rhythms and a table of these rhythms; title: Nonretrogradable rhythms; title: Polyrhythm and rhythmic pedals; title: Rhythmic notations; title: Melody and melodic contours; title: Bird song; title: Melodic development; title: Song-sentence, binary and ternary sentences; title: Fugue, sonata, plainchant forms; title: Harmony, Debussy, added notes; title: Special chords, clusters of chords, and a list of connections of chords; title: Enlargement of foreign notes, upbeats and terminations; title: Modes of limited transpositions; title: Modulations of these modes and their relation to the major tonality; title: Relation of these modes to modal, atonal, polytonal, and quarter-tone music; title: Polymodality; title: Catalogue of works.