Jean-Etienne Marie

Jean-Etienne Marie (1917- 1989) was a french composer of contemporary music. He is an important figure in the history and exploration of Microtonal music and electroacoustic.

Biography
After WWII he dedicated his life to music. He worked at the Radiodiffusion Française. he was specialist in broadcasting contemporary music festival. He 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).

Music
He dedicated most of his work to microtonal and to mixt music. His works and his theorisation in microtonal music were significant in the modern knowledge of european microtonal music

Just like Carrillo, He explored the potential of a lot microtonal scales either widespread(1/4 tone, 1/3rd tone, 1/6tone) or less known (1/7th tone, 1/5th tone). But one of his specificity is to practice polytempered music that is to say music exploiting several different microtonal scales in the same time. This concept suggested by Carillo. In "Tombeau de Carillo" he exploted at the same time 1/2, 1/3rd, 1/5th and 1/6 tone scales large and fast clusters

He also tried to apply the 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.

Works
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 DE CARRILLO 1966
OBEDIENS USQUE AD MORTEM 1966
NOCTURNE MARIN (O'Tamsi) 1967
TLALOC I 1967
APPEL AU TIERS-MONDE 1967-68
LES CAVES DE L'ESPRIT (Nerval) 1968
MIMODRAME 68 1969
S 68 1969
JOIE 1969
BSN 240 1969
CONCERTO MILIEU DIVIN 1969-70
SAVONAROLE 1970
ICH GLAUBE 1971
TOMBEAU DE JEAN-PIERRE GUEZEC 1971
ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI 1972
SYMPHONIES 1972
LA PAROLE DE DIEU EST COMME UNE EPEE 1972
UN FANAL POUR MES CANAUX 1972
VOS LEURRES DE MESSE 1972
EMETTEUR DE NORDHEIM 1973
ITHOS 1974
IN MANUS TUAS DOMINE 1975
CRHEODE LAMBDA 1977
COMPLIES A ST-THOME 1977
QUAND ELIE L'ENTENDIT 1977
TOMBEAU DE CESAIRE LEVILLAIN 1978
CHREODE MU 1978
LE CUIRASSE POTEMKINE 1978
OBSERVER 01 1978
OBSERVER n°5 1978
OBSERVER n°6 1979
TROIS ETUDES POUR DEUX PERCUSSIONISTES 1979
FRACTAL FIGURAL III 1980
GRAVURE POLYMORPHIQUE 1980
HEPHAISTOS 1980
TLALOC II 1980
TROIS AFFICHES D'HOLGER MATTHIES 1980
SOLDE POUR UN COMPTE DE NOEL 1981
FRACTAL FIGURAL IV 1981
IRRATIONNELLE HOMOTHETIE 1981
AULOGRAPHIE 1981
LE VIOLENT HARMONIEUX COMBAT 1981
ESPACES DE REVES: I - REPETITION 1981
JE SUIS ALLE A THOARA 1981-82
LES BIJOUX DE CORNELIA 1982
TOPIQUE TOPIAIRE 1982
BIOT HERMES 1983
BONJOUR MONSIEUR LIGETI 1983
LIMONAIRE LITHOGRAPHE 1983
DE L'AMBIGUITE ( Hommage à Evariste Galois ) 1983
SYNFONIETTA 1983
IMPROVISATION II 1983
LIS ABEIHO FASIEN VIOULOUN DE SIS ALETO 1984
SYLVIANA STORY 1984
HOLZWEGE 1984
LABYRINTHE 1985
LIS ABEIHO FASIEN VIOULOUN DE SIS ALETO, version Ballet 1985
SYLVIANA STORY version Ballet 1985
IMPROVISATION III 1985
TOMBEAU DU DOCTEUR DOUADY 1985
MOBILE ALEATOIRE BACH 1986
COJE 1986
EN LIEU ET PLACE DE 1986
PAPA, MAMAN, LA MUSIQUE ET MOI 1986
ARMURES AUX DUITES ENCHAINEES 1987
LES PIRATES AVALAIENT DES COULEUVRES 1987
MARANA THA 1988
TROIS POEMES SANS TEXTE 1988
CONDORCET 1990