UID:
almafu_9959237195902883
Format:
1 online resource (614 pages).
ISBN:
0-520-96746-1
Series Statement:
California Studies in 20th-Century Music ; 20
Content:
The 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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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The Treatise on Musical Objects and the GRM /
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Translators' Introduction /
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Pierre Schaeffer's Treatise on Musical Objects and Music Theory /
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Acknowledgments --
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Preface --
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Introductory Remarks: The Historical Situation of Music --
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Book One: Making Music --
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1. The Instrumental Prerequisite --
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2. Playing an Instrument --
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3. Capturing Sounds --
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4. Acousmatics --
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Book Two: Hearing --
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5. "What Can Be Heard" --
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6. The Four Listening Modes --
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7. Scientific Prejudice --
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8. The Hearing Intention --
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Book Three: Correlations between the Physical Signal and the Musical Object --
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9. Ambiguities in Musical Acoustics --
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10. Correlation between Spectra and Pitches --
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11. Thresholds and Transients --
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12. Temporal Anamorphoses I: Timbres and Dynamics --
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13. Temporal Anamorphoses II: Timbre and Instrument --
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14. Time and Duration --
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Book Four: Objects and Structures --
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15. Reduction to the Object --
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16. Perceptual Structures --
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17. Comparative Structures: Music and Language --
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18. The Conventional Musical System: Musicality and Sonority --
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19. Natural Sound Structures: Musicianly Listening --
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20. The Reduced Listening System: Musical Dualism --
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21. Musical Research --
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Book Five: Morphology and Typology of Sound Objects --
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22. Morphology of Sound Objects --
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23. The Laboratory --
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24. Typology of Musical Objects (I): Classification Criteria --
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25. Typology of Musical Objects (II): Balanced and Redundant Objects --
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26. Typology of Musical Objects (III): Eccentric Sounds --
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27. Working at Our Instrument --
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Book Six: Theory of Musical Objects --
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28. Musical Experience --
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29. Generalizing Music Theory --
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30. Theory of Homogeneous Sounds: Criterion of Mass --
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31. Theory of Fixed Masses: Dynamic Criterion --
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32. Theory of Sustainment --
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33. Theory of Variations --
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34. Analysis of the Musical Object as It Generally Appears --
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Book Seven: Music as a Discipline --
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35. Implementation --
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36. The Meaning of Music --
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Penultimate Chapter: In Search of Music Itself --
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Postscript --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-29430-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-29429-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520967465
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