Treatise on Musical Objects by Pierre Schaeffer
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 concrete 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.-
In Search of a Concrete Music
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The Doctor Faustus Dossier
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Experimentalism Otherwise
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Composing Modernism
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Nostalgia for the Future
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Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy
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Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe
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Brecht at the Opera
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The Art of Appreciation
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Making New Music in Cold War Poland
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Music Divided
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New Music, New Allies
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In Stravinsky's Orbit
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Revealing Masks
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Music and Politics in San Francisco
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Zoltan Kodaly's World of Music
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Terrible Freedom
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Frontier Figures
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The Musical Legacy of Wartime France
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German Modernism
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A Wayfaring Stranger
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Music and the Elusive Revolution
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Middlebrow Modernism
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Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition
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Awangarda
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Classic Chic
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Beautiful Monsters
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Jewish Identities
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Magician of Sound
"[Christine North and John Dack's] English translation is as effective as Schaeffer’s text, which in turn exercises its full correlative power to English readers to the extent that the translators have rendered it" * Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal *
Composer, writer, and electronic engineer Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995) was the inventor of musique concrete-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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520294295 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520294297 |
| Title | Treatise on Musical Objects |
| Author | Pierre Schaeffer |
| Series | California Studies In 20th-Century Music |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2017-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |