Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay across Disciplines
- Author: Schaeffer, Pierre
- Translator: Dack, John
- Translator: North, Christine
[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... — More…
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Contents
- The Treatise on Musical Objects and the GRM, by Daniel Teruggi
- Translators' Introduction, by Christine North
- Pierre Schaeffer's Treatise on Musical Objects and Music Theory, by John Dack
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introductory Remarks: The Historical Situation of Music
- Book One. Making Music
- 1. The Instrumental Prerequisite
- 2. Playing an Instrument
- 3. Capturing Sounds
- 4. Acousmatics
- Book Two. Hearing
- 5. "What Can Be Heard"
- 6. The Four Listening Modes
- 7. Scientific Prejudice
- 8. The Hearing Intention
- Book Three. Correlations Between the Physical Signal and the Musical Object
- 9. Ambiguities in Musical Acoustics
- 10. Correlation between Spectra and Pitches
- 11. Threshold and Transients
- 12. Temporal Anamorphoses I: Timbres and Dynamics
- 13. Temporal Anamorphoses II: Timbre and Instrument
- 14. Time and Duration
- Book Four. Objects and Structures
- 15. Reduction to the Object
- 16. Perceptual Structures
- 17. Comparative Structures: Music and Language
- 18. The Conventional Musical System: Musicality and Sonority
- 19. Natural Sound Structures: Musicianly Listening
- 20. The Reduced Listening System: Musical Dualism
- 21. Musical Research
- Book Five. Morphology and Typology of Sound Objects
- 22. Morphology of Sound Objects
- 23. The Laboratory
- 24. Typology of Musical Objects (I): Classification Criteria
- 25. Typology of Musical Objects (II): Balanced and Redundant Objects
- 26. Typology of Musical Objects (III): Eccentric Sounds
- 27. Working at Our Instrument
- Book Six. Theory of Musical Objects
- 28. Musical Experience
- 29. Generalizing Music Theory
- 30. Theory of Homogenous Sounds: Criterion of Mass
- 31. Theory of Fixed Masses: Dynamic Criterion
- 32. Theory of Sustainment
- 33. Theory of Variations
- 34. Analysis of the Musical Object as It Generally Appears
- Book Seven. Music as a Discipline
- 35. Implementation
- 36. The Meaning of Music
- Penultimate Chapter: In the Search of Music Itself
- Postscript
- Index
