À la recherche d'une musique concréte
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In Search of a Concrete Music (French: À la recherche d'une musique concrète), written and published in 1952
, is a French language
publication which forms a major part of the experimental
composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer
's collection of works
written to record his own undertakings on the development of musique concrète
.
The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée.
In this text, some have suggested, Schaeffer imagined a computerized music studio:
1952 in literature
The year 1952, in literature involved some significant events and new literary publications.-Events:*J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.*November 25 - Agatha Christie's play...
, is a French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
publication which forms a major part of the experimental
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
composer and theoretician Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...
's collection of works
Bibliography of Pierre Schaeffer
The bibliography of Pierre Schaefferis a list of the fictional and nonfictional writings of the electroacoustic musician-theoretician and pioneer of musique concrète, Pierre Schaeffer.- Novels and short stories :* Chlothar Nicole...
written to record his own undertakings on the development of musique concrète
Musique concrète
Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
.
The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée.
In this text, some have suggested, Schaeffer imagined a computerized music studio:
Contents
- DÉDICACE
- 1ER JOURNAL, 1948–1949
- 2E JOURNAL, 1950–1951
- 3 EXPÉRIENCE CONCRÈTE, 1952
- 4 ESQUISSE D'UN SOLFÈGE CONCRET