''In Search of a Concrete Music'' (French: ''À la recherche d'une musique concrète''), written and published in
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
, is a
French language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...
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
Musique concrète (; ): " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, ...
.
The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's ''Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée''.
[Martial, Robert. ''Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée.'' Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. ()]
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
Notes
References
Delalande, François. "D’une technologie à l’autre." ''Enjeux et initiatives.'' 6-10.
1952 non-fiction books
Works by Pierre Schaeffer
Music books
Musique concrète
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