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1 online resource. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Book one. Making music. The instrumental prerequisite ; Playing an instrument ; Capturing sounds ; Acousmatics -- Book two. Hearing. "What can be heard" ; The four listening modes ; Scientific prejudice ; The hearing intention -- Book three. Correlations between the physical signal and the musical object. Ambiguities in musical acoustics ; Correlation between spectra and pitches ; Thresholds and transients ; Temporal anamorphoses I: timbres and dynamics ; Temporal anamorphoses II: timbre and instrument ; Time and duration -- Book four. Objects and structures. Reduction to the object ; Perceptual structures ; Comparative structures: music and language ; The conventional musical system: musicality and sonority ; Natural sound structures: musicianly listening ; The reduced listening system: musical dualism ; Musical research ; Morphology of sound objects ; The laboratory ; Typology of musical objects (I): classification criteria ; Typology (II): balanced and redundant objects ; Typology (III): eccentric sounds ; Working at our instrument -- Book six. Theory of musical objects. Musical experience ; Generalising music theory ; Theory of homogeneous sounds: criterion of mass ; Theory of fixed masses: dynamic criterion ; Theory of sustainment ; Theory of variations ; Analysis of the musical object as it generally appears ; Implementation ; The meaning of music -- Penultimate chapter : in search of music itself -- Post-script. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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| Added Author |
North, Christine, translator.
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Dack, John, translator.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Related To |
Online version: Schaeffer, Pierre, 1910-1995, author. Treatise on musical objects. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520967465 (DLC) 2016055109 |
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Original 9780520294295 0520294297 9780520294301 0520294300 (DLC) 2016052008 |
| ISBN |
9780520967465 (electronic bk.) |
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0520967461 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520294295 |
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0520294297 |
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9780520294301 |
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0520294300 |
| OCLC # |
EBC4711989 |
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