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In his foreword to the first volume of Messiaen's long-awaited Traite de rythme, de couleur et d'ornithologie, French composer Alain Louvier recognizes his teacher's contribution to contemporary music thinking: To read this treatise is to marvel at the genius of Olivier Messiaen, at his universal spirit, curious about everything, which brings to the waning days of our century a great gust of divine inspiration.
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langage communicable, symmetrical permutations, traquet stapazin, mon langage musical, limited transposition, nouveaux entretiens, petites liturgies, chouette hulotte, merle bleu, first transposition, rhythmic permutations, second transposition, corps glorieux, communicable language, resurrectionem mortuorum, votre amour, rock thrush, symmetrical groups, medieval liturgy, musical language, musical alphabet, musical symbols, musical representation, thirteen pieces
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Olivier Messiaen, Saint Francis, Saint Thomas, Thomas Aquinas, Theme of God, Alphonse Leduc, Claude Samuel, Middle Ages, Ondes Martenot, New York, Yvonne Loriod, Brigitte Massin, Canticle of Brother Sun, Holy Spirit, Paris Leduc, The Father's Contemplation, The Son Contemplating the Son, Harry Halbreich, Olivier Messraen, The Star's Contemplation, Thomas of Celano, First Communion of the Virgin, Olivier Messtaen, Paris Conservatoire, Pierre Boulez
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