Treatise on Musical Objects : An Essay across Disciplines / Pierre Schaeffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaeffer, Pierre, author.

Contributor:

North, Christine, translator.

Dack, John, translator.

Series:

California studies in 20th-century music ; 20.

California Studies in 20th-Century Music ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Translators' Introduction / North, Christine

Pierre Schaeffer's Treatise on Musical Objects and Music Theory / Dack, John

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. Thresholds 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 Homogeneous 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 Search of Music Itself

Postscript

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520967465

0520967461

OCLC:

991555159