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Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay across Disciplines
Pierre Schaeffer
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Description for Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay across Disciplines
Hardback. The "Treatise on Musical Objects" by Pierre Schaeffer is regarded as his most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, this book summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translator(s): North, Christine; Dack, John. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 543 pages, 6 music ex, 7 b/w halftones, 55 line art. BIC Classification: AVC; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
543
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520294295
SKU
V9780520294295
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About Pierre Schaeffer
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.
Reviews for Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay across Disciplines
"[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
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal