ENGLISH

Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay across Disciplines

By Pierre Schaeffer

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780520967465
DOI
10.1525/9780520967465
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4094973 bytes)
Series
California Studies in 20th-Century Music; 20
Pages
624\611
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 18:17:42

Description

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.

Similar books