Musicology Annotation << Back Olivier Messiaen’s «Organ Book»: Towards the New Concept of Rhythm Makina A.V. The name of Olivier Messiaen is connected with creation of the new concept of musical time and rhythm. One of key Messiaen’s compositions is «Organ Book» which demonstrates his rhythmic innovations: synthesis of Christian/Hindi and individual concepts of rhythm, «original rhythms», transformation of Indian rhythmics, «rhythmic characters», sequence of chromatic durations, «limited symmetric interversions», etc. Key words: Messiaen, rhythm, Indian rhythmics, sequence of chromatic durations. E-mail: anna_makina@mail.ru