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Treatise on Musical Objects

An Essay across Disciplines

Pierre Schaeffer Christine North John Dack

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English
University of California Press
25 July 2017
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.

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Translated by:   ,
Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 36mm
Weight:   907g
ISBN:   9780520294301
ISBN 10:   0520294300
Series:   California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Pages:   624
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Composer, writer, electronic engineer, administrator Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995) was the inventor of musique concrete created by combining and manipulating recorded sounds (rather than being played on conventional musical instruments). Christine North studied French at Oxford University and subsequently became a Senior Lecturer in French at Middlesex University before working currently as a translator of French poetry and academic texts. John Dack is Senior Lecturer in Music and Technology. He works at the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries and the Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, UK.

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 *


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