[Olivier Messiaen, French Composer; Printed Music; Inscribed by Composer] Ile de feu1 [one of Quatre Etudes de rythme.]

Printed Wraps cream coloured, Titlepage, [pp.4], blank then advt page, good condition. INSCRIBED by Messiaen on titlepage as follows: A Douglas Dorrington, Tres amicalement - | Olivier Messiaen | 7 decembre 1980-. See Image. Note: The title refers to Papua New Guinea, and the thematic material of this movement has all the violence of the magic rites of this country. The piece consists of five sections, in alternating pairs of musical ideas. The first part of each section is a melodic theme with accompaniment, the second is a departure which Messiaen calls a trait (episode). The first section consists of a thematic statement and trait. The first half of the next three develop the initial theme. The fifth and final section introduces a new, longer theme in two periods which are immediately repeated before the etude is concluded by a final trait amounting to a short coda [Wikipedia]