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History
This movement is the most-discussed of the four, as the
rst work by a European composer to apply numerical
organisation to pitch, duration, dynamics, and mode of
attack (timbre) (Toop 1974, 142). Because the treatment
of the parameters is modal and not serial (that is, the elements are treated simply as a scale, without any implications for how they are to be ordered), there is no question
of the material determining the works form (Toop 1974,
148). According to the composers own description, there
are separate modes composed of 36 pitches, 24 durations,
12 attacks, and 7 dynamics. The duration scale is separated into three overlapping scales, called tempi by the
composer, which correspond to the high, middle, and low
registers of the piano, and occur in simultaneous superimposition. The rst tempo uses 12 chromatic durations
applied to the semidemiquaver, the second does the same
with the semiquaver unit quaver, and the third with the
quaver (Sherlaw Johnson 1989, 105).
Analysis
2.3
4 DISCOGRAPHY
Neumes rythmiques
2.4
Ile de feu II
3 Reception
The second of the tudes, Mode de valeurs et
d'intensits, overshadows all the others for having become the model for composers interested in the serialisation of musical parameters other than pitch. Initially, this inuence occurred through works composed
in 1950 and 1951 by two of Messiaens pupils, Karel
Goeyvaerts and Michel Fano. Messiaens composition
and one of the works inspired by it, Goeyvaertss Sonata
for Two Pianos, impressed Karlheinz Stockhausen at
the Darmstdter Ferienkurse in 1951, prompting him to
compose Kreuzspielhis rst acknowledged work (Toop
1974, 14243). Pierre Boulez, after a period of estrangement from Messiaen caused by what Boulez viewed as
the excessively sensual Turangalla-Symphonie, belatedly
discovered the Mode de valeurs in 1951 and composed
his Structures, Book I as a gesture of conciliation to his
former teacher, transforming the twelve triplum elements of the Modes rst division into ordered series and
composed Structures 1a in a single night (Gather 2003,
7879, 8182).
4 Discography
Olivier Messiaen: Quatre tudes de rythme. Olivier
Messiaen, piano. Sound Recording 2 discs, 78rpm,
30 cm. Columbia LFX 998/9 (CLX 2843; CLX
2844; CLX 2845; CLX 2846) [France]: Columbia,
1951. Presumably the same recording reissued in:
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Les rarissimes de Olivier Messiaen. CD 1:
Trois petites liturgies de la prsence divine; Les
orandes oublies; Vingt regards sur l'enfant
Jsus; Trois prludes; CD 2: Visions de l'amen
pour deux pianos; Quatre tudes de rythme.
Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, piano;
Jeanne Loriod, ondes Martenot; Ensemble
Vocal Marcel Couraud; Orchestre de Chambre Andr Girard; Orchestre de l'Association
des Concerts Piern; Marcel Couraud and
Roger Dsormire, conds. Recorded: Paris,
Thtre Apollo und Studio Albert, between
1942 and 1954. Audio restoration by EMI
Music France. Compact disc, 2 sound discs:
monaural, 12 cm. EMI Classics 0946 385275
2 7. [France]: EMI Music France, 2007.
Premier festival de l'art d'avant-garde. Anton Webern: Cinq mlodies, op. 4; Variations pour piano,
opus 27; Trois chants, op. 23; Olivier Messiaen:
Quatre tudes de rythmes; Pierre Boulez: Etude II
(Etude sur sept sons); Jean Barraqu: Etude. Ethel
Semser, soprano; Paul Jacobs, piano. Musique sur
bande. LP recording, 1 disc, 33rpm, 30 cm. Barclay
89005. [N.p.]: Barclay Records, 1959.
Olivier Messiaen: Huit prludes; Quatre tudes de
rythme. Yvonne Loriod, piano. LP recording, 1
disc, 33rpm, stereo, 30 cm. Erato STU 70433.
Paris: ditions Costallat, 1968. Reissued as part of:
Messiaen: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux, Huit
Prludes; Quatre tudes de rythme. Yvonne
Loriod, piano. Erato 2292-45505-2/5 ECD
71589 (+). Previously released in 1968 (2nd
3rd works) and in 1988; Yvonne Loriod, piano./ Recorded at the Eglise Notre-Dame du
Liban, Paris, October 1987 (1st work) and
January 1968 (2nd and 3rd works). Compact
disc, 1 sound disc: digital; 12 cm. [Paris]: Erato, n.d.
Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'Enfant
Jsus; Petites esquisses d'oiseaux; Huit
prludes; Quatre tudes de rythme. Yvonne
Loriod, piano.
Recorded at the Eglise
Notre-Dame du Liban, Paris, October 1973
(CD 1 & CD 2); October 1987 & October
1968 (CD 3). Compact disc, 3 sound discs:
analog/digital, stereo, 12 cm. Series: Piano
franais. Erato 4509-96222-2. France: Erato,
1987.
Piano Etudes by Bartk, Busoni, Messiaen, Stravinsky. Olivier Messiaen: Quatre etudes de rythme;
Bla Bartk: Studies for Piano, op. 18; Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni: Klavierbung (selections);
Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, Etudes for Piano, no.
7. Paul Jacobs, piano. LP recording, 1 disc: stereophonic. Nonesuch H-71334. Nonesuch Records,
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Haase, piano. Recorded Frankfurt am Main, Festeburgkirche, 1997. Compact disc, sound disc: digital, stereo, 12 cm. Tacet 53. [Germany]: Tacet,
1997.
Olivier Messiaen: Piano Music. Hkon Austb, piano. Vol. 3; Prludes [18]; Four rhythmic studies
[Quatre tudes de rythme]; Cantyodjay.; Vol. 4;
Les orandes oublies; Fantaisie burlesque; Pice
pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas; Rondeau; Prlude
(1964); La fauvette des jardins. Compact disc, 4
sound discs Vol. 1 . [S.l.]: HNH International,
1999 Angela Hewitt Plays Olivier Messiaen. Prludes
(selections): La colombe; Chant d'extase dans un
paysage triste; Le nombre lger; Instants dfunts;
Les sons impalpables du rve; Cloches d'angoisse et
larmes d'adieu; Plainte calme; Un reet dans le vent
...; Quatre tudes de rythme (selections): le de feu
1; le de feu 2; Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jsus (selections): Regard de la Vierge; Le baiser de l'EnfantJsus; Regard de l'esprit de joie. Angela Hewitt, piano. Recorded in the Reitstadel, Neumarkt in der
Oberpfalz, Germany, 2123 January 1998. Compact disc; 1 sound disc: digital, stereo, 12 cm. Hyperion CDA67054. London: Hyperion, 1998.
Composizioni per pianoforte. Maurice Ravel: Le
tombeau de Couperin; Claude Debussy: Cinq preludes; Jeux d'eau; Olivier Messiaen: Quatre tudes
de rythme. Luca Trabucco, pianist. Twentieth Century French Piano Music. Compact disc, 1 sound
disc: stereo, digital, 12 cm. Sony PH 99504. [Austria]: Sony, 1999.
Olivier Messiaen: Visions de l'amen; Quatre tudes
de rythme; Cantyodjay. Paul S. Kim, piano;
Matthew Kim, 2nd piano (in 1st and 2nd [sic]
works). Compact disc. Recorded Armonk, New
York August 2002, (1st work); New York City,
September 2002 (remaining works). Compact disc
1 sound disc: digital; 12 cm. Centaur Records CRC
2668. [Baton Rouge, La.]: Centaur Records, 2003.
Olivier Messiaen: Prludes; Quatre tudes de
rythme ; Cantyodjay. Martin Zehn, piano.
Recorded in Cologne (Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal).
Compact disc 1 sound disc: digital, stereo, 12 cm.
Arte Nova 82876 57833 2; [Europe] : BMG ;
[France] : distrib. BMG, 2004
Hommage Messiaen. Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano. Compact disc, sound disc: digital, stereo, 12
cm. Deutsche Grammophon 477 7452 GH. Contents: Prludes pour piano (selection): La bouscarle"; Catalogue d'oiseaux (selection): L'alouette
Lulu"; Quatre tudes de rythme (selections): Ile de
feu 1 et 2. Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon,
2008.
REFERENCES
Olivier Messiaen, 19081992. The Anniversary Edition, vol. 7. Visions de l'amen; Quatre tudes de rythme; Cantyodjay. In the 1st work: Alexandre
Rabinovitch, Martha Argerich, pianos; 2nd work:
Michel Bro, piano ; 3rd work: John Ogdon, piano. 1 sound disc: digital, 12 cm. EMI Classics
2174732. 2008
Complete edition. Olivier Messiaen; Roger Muraro;
Olivier Latry. Compact disc 32 sound discs: digital; 12 cm. Deutsche Grammophon (set) 480 1333;
Deutsche Grammophon 480 1365-480 1334. CD
2: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux; Quatre tudes de rythme; Cantyodjay; Rondeau; Fantasie burlesque;
Prlude pour piano; Pice pour le tombeau de Paul
Dukas. Roger Muraro, piano. Germany: Deutsche
Grammophon, 2008.
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Bauer, Hans-Joachim. 1983. Klangkristalle.
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D'kova,
Ldmila Sergeevna (,
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2002.
"
" [Paradigm as a
scholarly method of cognition]. In
: [Musicology at the Turn of the Century: Past and Present],
edited by Tat'na Ivanovna Naumenko (
), 2441. Moscow: Rossijska Akademi Muzyki imeni Gnesinyh. ISBN
5-8269-0052-0.
Firnkees, Gertrud. 1980. Improvisation als Einfhrung in die zeitgenssische Musik. Zeitschrift
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Lee, John Madison. 1972. Harmonic Structures
In The 'Quatre tudes rythmiques [sic] of Olivier
Messiaen. Ph.D. diss. Tallahassee: The Florida
State University.
Puspita, Amelia. 2008. The Inuence of Balinese
Gamelan on the Music of Olivier Messiaen. DMA
diss. Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati.
Song, Sun-ju. 2008. Music Analysis and the
Avant-Garde Compositions of PostWorld War II:
Four Case Studies. PhD diss. Nathan: Queensland
Conservatorium Grith University.
Zheng, Zhong (
). 2005.
[Messiaens Multi-level
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the Piano Piece 'Mode de valeurs et d'intensits].
Huangzhong: Zhongguo Wuhan Yinyue Xueyuan
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