From the reviews (Zentrallblatt MATH):
"This highly interesting and original book is not intended to give a guide to composing music, but aims to create a kind of universal musical grammar by quantitatively describing the parameters characterizing pieces of music. The result is a "Gradus ad Parnassum" with the following 9 chapters: The Musical Sound, The Tone Duration, Three Strings and Chords, Ornaments, The "Horizontal" Notation, Twelve-tone Music, The Utilization of the "Sound Continuum", Musical Poetry, Theory of Illustrations, In contrast to many other works, the author has succeeded in producing a serious book; the interested reader may read the preface and the epilogue ("De la Composition de Musique")."

Le Vademecum s'articule autour de deux axes principaux: une approche nouvelle de la musique occidentale, d'un point de vue mathématique relativement simple, et la description de méthode de composition automatique de musique avec un ordinateur, quel que soit le moyen de reproduction du son. Ce livre s'adresse donc a un public intéressé par la musique et/ou par l'informatique.