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Pierre Schaeffer 
Treatise on Musical Objects 
An Essay across Disciplines

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Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in
musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer’s essay summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translators Christine North and John Dack present an important book in the history of ideas in Europe that will resonate far beyond electroacoustic music.
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Table des matières

The Treatise on Musical Objects
and the GRM, by Daniel Teruggi

Translators’ Introduction, by Christine North

Pierre Schaeffer’s Treatise on Musical Objects
and Music Theory, by John Dack

Acknowledgments

Preface


Introductory Remarks: The Historical Situation of Music


Book One. Making Music

1. The Instrumental Prerequisite

2. Playing an Instrument

3. Capturing Sounds

4. Acousmatics


Book Two. Hearing

5. ‘What Can Be Heard’

6. The Four Listening Modes

7. Scientific Prejudice

8. The Hearing Intention


Book Three. Correlations Between the Physical Signal and the Musical Object

9. Ambiguities in Musical Acoustics

10. Correlation between Spectra and Pitches

11. Threshold and Transients

12. Temporal Anamorphoses I: Timbres and Dynamics

13. Temporal Anamorphoses II: Timbre and Instrument

14. Time and Duration


Book Four. Objects and Structures

15. Reduction to the Object

16. Perceptual Structures

17. Comparative Structures: Music and Language

18. The Conventional Musical System: Musicality and Sonority

19. Natural Sound Structures: Musicianly Listening

20. The Reduced Listening System: Musical Dualism

21. Musical Research


Book Five. Morphology and Typology of Sound Objects

22. Morphology of Sound Objects

23. The Laboratory

24. Typology of Musical Objects (I): Classification Criteria

25. Typology of Musical Objects (II): Balanced and Redundant Objects

26. Typology of Musical Objects (III): Eccentric Sounds

27. Working at Our Instrument


Book Six. Theory of Musical Objects

28. Musical Experience

29. Generalizing Music Theory

30. Theory of Homogenous Sounds: Criterion of Mass

31. Theory of Fixed Masses: Dynamic Criterion

32. Theory of Sustainment

33. Theory of Variations

34. Analysis of the Musical Object as It Generally Appears


Book Seven. Music as a Discipline

35. Implementation

36. The Meaning of Music

Penultimate Chapter: In the Search of Music Itself


Postscript

Index

A propos de l’auteur

Composer, writer, and electronic engineer Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was the inventor of musique concrète—music created by combining and manipulating recorded sounds, rather than being played on conventional musical instruments.Christine North is a translator of French poetry and academic texts.John Dack is Senior Lecturer in Music and Technology at Middlesex University.
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 624 ● ISBN 9780520967465 ● Taille du fichier 10.8 MB ● Maison d’édition University of California Press ● Publié 2017 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5203593 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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