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Jean-Étienne Marie

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Jean-Étienne Marie (22 November 1917 – 25 December 1989) was a French composer of contemporary music. He is an important figure in the history and exploration of Microtonal music and electroacoustic. Born in Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados, Marie studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Simone Plé-Caussade. After World War II, he dedicated his life to music. He worked at the Radiodiffusion Française, where he was a specialist in broadcasting contemporary music festival. Marie was the disciple of Olivier Messiaen and of Darius Milhaud, but this is his meeting with microtonality pioneer Julián Carrillo that was crucial in his musical work. He created le CIRM in 1968 in Paris and set it to Nice in 1978. In 1979 he created the MANCA Festival (Musiques actuelles Nice Côte-d'Azur). He dedicated most of his work to microtonal and to mixed music. His works and his theorisation in microtonal music were significant in the modern knowledge of European microtonal music. Like Julian Carrillo, he explored the potential of microtonal scales, either widespread (1/4 tone, 1/3rd tone, 1/6tone) or less known (1/7th tone, 1/5th tone). One of his techniques was to use polytempered music, that is to say music exploiting the simultaneous use of several different microtonal scales. This concept suggested by Carillo. In Tombeau de Carillo he exploited 1/2, 1/3rd, 1/5th and 1/6 tone scales simultaneously. He also tried to apply serialism to these scales. In 1972 he wrote a serial and polytempered piece Ecce Ancilla Domini, where he uses rows in 1/4, 1/5th and 1/6th tone. DEUX POEMES DE PAUL ELUARD 1949 SONATE POUR HAUTBOIS SOLO 1950 PIECES VOCALES TROISIEME DIMANCHE DE CAREME 1951 LES CHAUSSONS VERTS 1952 UN GARCON, UNE FILLE, UN CHIEN ET DES ... 1953 POESIES (Schéhadé) 1956 POLYGRAPHIE POLYPHONIQUE n°1 1957-58 PENTHATLE MONOGENIQUE 1958 LA MUERTE DEL TORO 1959 IMAGES THANAIQUES 1960-61 LE CHRIST DANS LA CITE 1962 EXPERIENCE AMBIGUE 1962 POLYGRAPHIE POLYPHONIQUE n°2 1961-63 ACOUSTIQUE PAR L'IMAGE 1965 HOMMAGE A JULIAN CARRILLO 1965 LE TOMBEAU D
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