OLIVIER MESSIAEN: CHRONOCHROMIE {STROPHE I AND STROPHE II}

In what follows, 1 = demisemiquaver, 2 = , ... , 32 =

Now 1 + 2 + ... + n = n (n+1) 2. So for n = 32, the overall duration = 16 33 = 33 , i.e. 33 bars of .

STROPHE I DURATIONAL PERMUTATIONS (INTERVERSIONS)

I0 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32]
I1 = [3, 28, 5, 30, 7, 32, 26, 2, 25, 1, 8, 24, 9, 23, 16, 17, 18, 22, 21, 19, 20, 4, 31, 6, 29, 10, 27, 11, 15, 14, 12, 13]
I2 = [5, 11, 7, 14, 26, 13, 10, 28, 29, 3, 2, 6, 25, 31, 17, 18, 22, 4, 20, 21, 19, 30, 12, 32, 15, 1, 27, 8, 16, 23, 24, 9]
I3 = [7, 8, 26, 23, 10, 9, 1, 11, 15, 5, 28, 32, 29, 12, 18, 22, 4, 30, 19, 20, 21, 14, 24, 13, 16, 3, 27, 2, 17, 31, 6, 25]

STROPHE II DURATIONAL PERMUTATIONS (INTERVERSIONS)

I0 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32]
I22 = [26, 11, 10, 31, 1, 25, 3, 28, 16, 7, 2, 13, 15, 24, 22, 4, 30, 14, 21, 19, 20, 23, 6, 9, 17, 5, 27, 8, 18, 12, 32, 29]
I23 = [10, 8, 1, 12, 3, 29, 5, 11, 17, 26, 28, 9, 16, 6, 4, 30, 14, 23, 20, 21, 19, 31, 32, 25, 18, 7, 27, 2, 22, 24, 13, 15]
I24 = [1, 2, 3, 24, 5, 15, 7, 8, 18, 10, 11, 25, 17, 32, 30, 14, 23, 31, 19, 20, 21, 12, 13, 29, 22, 26, 27, 28, 4, 6, 9, 16]

THE CYCLIC GROUP <I>

I = (1, 3, 5, 7, 26, 10) (2, 28, 11, 8) (4, 30, 14, 23, 31, 12, 24, 6, 32, 13, 9, 25, 29, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22) (19, 21, 20) (27)
Now l.c.m. {6, 4, 18, 3, 1} = 36, so I36 I0: the cyclic group <I> contains 36 permutations.