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An edition of Treatise on musical objects (2017)

Treatise on musical objects

an essay across disciplines

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"The Treatise on musical objects by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer refers to his earlier research in musique concrète and expands this to suggest a methodology of working with sounds resulting from the recording process. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer's book summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. North and Dack present an important book in the history of ideas in Europe that will resonate far beyond electroacoustic music."--Provided by publisher.

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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
569

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Subjects

Music and technology, Musique concrète, Music, Acoustics and physics, Philosophy and aesthetics, Sound (Philosophy), History and criticism, Music, philosophy and aesthetics
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2017, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

Book one. Making music. The instrumental prerequisite ; Playing an instrument ; Capturing sounds ; Acousmatics
Book two. Hearing. "What can be heard" ; The four listening modes ; Scientific prejudice ; The hearing intention
Book three. Correlations between the physical signal and the musical object. Ambiguities in musical acoustics ; Correlation between spectra and pitches ; Thresholds and transients ; Temporal anamorphoses I: timbres and dynamics ; Temporal anamorphoses II: timbre and instrument ; Time and duration
Book four. Objects and structures. Reduction to the object ; Perceptual structures ; Comparative structures: music and language ; The conventional musical system: musicality and sonority ; Natural sound structures: musicianly listening ; The reduced listening system: musical dualism ; Musical research
Book five. Morphology and typology of sound objects. Morphology of sound objects ; The laboratory ; Typology of musical objects (I): classification criteria ; Typology of musical objects (II): balanced and redundant objects ; Typology of musical objects (III): eccentric sounds ; Working at our instrument
Book six. Theory of musical objects. Musical experience ; Generalizing music theory ; Theory of homogeneous sounds: criterion of mass ; Theory of fixed masses: dynamic criterion ; Theory of sustainment ; Theory of variations ; Analysis of the musical object as it generally appears
Book seven. Music as a discipline. Implementation ; The meaning of music
Penultimate chapter : in search of music itself
Postscript.

Edition Notes

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.

Series
California studies in 20th-century music -- 20, California studies in 20th-century music -- 20.

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Dewey Decimal Class
781.1
Library of Congress
ML3800.S252 T713 2017, ML3800.S252T713

The Physical Object

Pagination
xli, 569 pages
Number of pages
569

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OL26936869M
ISBN 10
0520294300
ISBN 13
9780520294301, 9780520967465
LCCN
2016052008
OCLC/WorldCat
961309966, 1001545733

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