Pierre Schaeffer

Broschiertes Buch

Treatise on Musical Objects

An Essay across Disciplines

Übersetzung: North, Christine; Dack, John

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Composer, writer, electronic engineer, administrator Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995) was the inventor of musique concrète created by combining and manipulating recorded sounds (rather than being played on conventional musical instruments). 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. 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.

Produktdetails

• California Studies in 20th-Century Music
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 841g
• ISBN-13: 9780520294301
• ISBN-10: 0520294300
• Artikelnr.: 46769513