Messiaen Musical Color - Limited Shift Tuning And Color Chords

Olivier Messiaen(1908一1992 ) is a famous French composer,organist, music theorist, music educator and a"birdman". The music style of Olivier Messiaen is doubtless carry forward the characteristic of French impressionism music. He was carry forward the good tradition while continually explored the new means of music expression and he was continued to spread the music technique and creating new music language. The music language of Messiaen creates new style, creating skill to have an unique style. Messiaen , as a musician of our times who has the world influence. His unique music and music theory in the evolution of Western music has made great contributions. His music is in many ways a breakthrough in the tradition. For example, he broke the shackles of the traditional functional harmony. His music works in the chords, melody and tonality, timbre, rhythm, expression and so become the color of his tools , highlight and emphasize the harmony of the color of. He forms to express his strong feelings of color, he has interrelated " Synaesthesia " between the sound and color. The main objective of this research is through the main core of its theory of the most characteristic—"Modes of Limited Trans positions"and"Colored chords"to analyze and try to dig deeper into Messiaen's color of.