{"product_id":"treatise-on-musical-objects-essays-across-disciplines-9780520294301","title":"Treatise on Musical Objects  Essays Across","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eTreatise on Musical Objects \u003ci\u003eand the GRM, by Daniel Teruggi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslators’ Introduction, by Christine North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierre Schaeffer’s \u003c\/i\u003eTreatise on Musical Objects \u003ci\u003eand Music Theory, by John Dack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Remarks: The Historical Situation of Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book One. Making Music\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Instrumental Prerequisite\u003cbr\u003e 2. Playing an Instrument\u003cbr\u003e 3. Capturing Sounds\u003cbr\u003e 4. Acousmatics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Two. Hearing\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"What Can Be Heard\"\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Four Listening Modes\u003cbr\u003e 7. Scientific Prejudice\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Hearing Intention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Three. Correlations Between the Physical Signal and the Musical Object\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ambiguities in Musical Acoustics\u003cbr\u003e 10. Correlation between Spectra and Pitches\u003cbr\u003e 11. Threshold and Transients\u003cbr\u003e 12. Temporal Anamorphoses I: Timbres and Dynamics\u003cbr\u003e 13. Temporal Anamorphoses II: Timbre and Instrument\u003cbr\u003e 14. Time and Duration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Four. Objects and Structures\u003cbr\u003e 15. Reduction to the Object\u003cbr\u003e 16. Perceptual Structures\u003cbr\u003e 17. Comparative Structures: Music and Language\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Conventional Musical System: Musicality and Sonority\u003cbr\u003e 19. Natural Sound Structures: Musicianly Listening\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Reduced Listening System: Musical Dualism\u003cbr\u003e 21. Musical Research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Five. Morphology and Typology of Sound Objects\u003cbr\u003e 22. Morphology of Sound Objects\u003cbr\u003e 23. The Laboratory\u003cbr\u003e 24. Typology of Musical Objects (I): Classification Criteria\u003cbr\u003e 25. Typology of Musical Objects (II): Balanced and Redundant Objects\u003cbr\u003e 26. Typology of Musical Objects (III): Eccentric Sounds\u003cbr\u003e 27. Working at Our Instrument\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Six. Theory of Musical Objects\u003cbr\u003e 28. Musical Experience\u003cbr\u003e 29. Generalizing Music Theory\u003cbr\u003e 30. Theory of Homogenous Sounds: Criterion of Mass\u003cbr\u003e 31. Theory of Fixed Masses: Dynamic Criterion\u003cbr\u003e 32. Theory of Sustainment\u003cbr\u003e 33. Theory of Variations\u003cbr\u003e 34. Analysis of the Musical Object as It Generally Appears\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Book Seven. Music as a Discipline\u003cbr\u003e 35. Implementation\u003cbr\u003e 36. The Meaning of Music\u003cbr\u003e Penultimate Chapter: In the Search of Music Itself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Postscript\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402892124503,"sku":"9780520294301","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520294301.jpg?v=1730481792","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/treatise-on-musical-objects-essays-across-disciplines-9780520294301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}