Editor’s Note: "Et je reverrai cette ville étrange (1981), commissioned by the Toronto ensemble ARRAYMUSIC, is without doubt among the most striking works of Claude Vivier. It is an entirely monadic composition in which the melody is played, unaccompanied, by all instruments in unison. Here, as is typical of the music of Vivier, the importance of the melodies is carried to its extreme. As the composer himself stated, “I may have reached the purest form of melody in Et je reverrai cette ville étr...