In Search of a Concrete Music / Schaeffer/Dack; ed. by Christine North, Pierre Schaeffer, John Dack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaeffer/Dack, Author.

Contributor:

Dack, John, Editor.

North, Christine, Editor.

Schaeffer, Pierre, 1910-1995, Editor.

Series:

California Studies in 20th-Century Music

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.) : 36 line illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Pierre Schaeffer's In Search of a Concrete Music (À la recherche d'une musique concrète) has long been considered a classic text in electroacoustic music and sound recording. Now Schaeffer's pioneering work-at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'être of "concrete music"-is available for the first time in English translation. Schaeffer's theories have had a profound influence on composers working with technology. However, they extend beyond the confines of the studio and are applicable to many areas of contemporary musical thought, such as defining an 'instrument' and classifying sounds. Schaeffer has also become increasingly relevant to DJs and hip-hop producers as well as sound-based media artists. This unique book is essential for anyone interested in contemporary musicology or media history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Translators Note

PART I First Journal of Concrete Music 19481949

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

PART II Second Journal of Concrete Music 1950195 1

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

PART III The Concrete Experiment in Music 1952

14 The Concrete Approach

15 The Experimental Method

16 The Musical Object

17 From the Object to Language

18 From the Object to the Subject

19 Inventory

20 Farewells to Concrete Music

PART IV Outline of a Concrete Music Theory In collaboration with Andre Moles, Visiting Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientifi c Research

I. Twenty-Five Initial Words for a Vocabulary

II. Review of Acoustic Concepts: The Three Dimensions of Pure Sound

III. Generalization of These Concepts in Concrete Music: The Three Planes of Reference of Complex Sound

IV. Individual Study of the Three Planes Enabling the Complex Note to Be Represented

V. Dynamic Plane

VI. Harmonic Plane

VII. Plane of Tessituras or Melodic Plane

VIII. Appearance of Criteria for Sound Characterology

IX. Main Criteria of Sound Characterology (Fig. 36)

X. Theoretical Number of Sound Families

XI. Conditions of Compatibility

XII. Application of Classification Criteria in Concrete Music

XIII. Classification Technique

Index of Names and Titles

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35251-3

OCLC:

1408681619