Cantéyodjayâ is a work for piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, written in 1949.
[1] The form of the work's single movement exhibits aspects of sonata-form and rondo, but progresses by superimposition and repetition rather than conventional development.
The composer's research into Hindu rhythms was based partly on the 120 rhythms listed in the thirteenth-century Sangita Ratnakara of Śārṅgadeva.
The score includes names that are taken from this work, and also from Carnatic musical theory.
This opening figuration recurs often, interspersed with other material.