Pierre Schaeffer's Musique Concrete

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the development of Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrete. It discusses the history of the composition and production of his music and aims to clarify some of the confusion surrounding the debate of musique concrete. The paper also looks at the scientific and philosophical content and information regarding factors that affect the perception of music and the composition of music.

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Statement Of Thesis
Methodology
Importance Of The Study
Introduction
Literature Review
Recommendations For Future Research

From the Paper:

"The problem arises from the contemporary understanding of the term as being a type of machinery process instead of the view of artistic creation musically. From a reflective view, it appears that technological advances in music are viewed suspiciously as were the early rock and roll musicians and composers when the Beatles arrived in the United States in the 1960s and music of this genre became 'noise' to the more traditional school of thought during that time. Rock and roll music was viewed as a cult type culture and the music was not viewed as music by the traditionalist among musicians and composers of that time. This debate has been ongoing however: "To state the obvious, music and dialogue are perceived as being an almost entirely artistic enterprise, though sfx is fundamentally understood as being a technical matter. Its postulation: sound designers are technicians, writer and composers are artists.""

Sample of Sources Used:

• Appleton, Jon H. and Ronald C. Perera. "The Development and Practice of Electronic Music." Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975.
• Babbitt, Milton. Stephen "Dembski and Joseph N. Straus, eds. Words About Music." Madison: University of Wisconson Press, 1987.
• Backus, John. "The Acoustical Foundations of Music.' New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
• Basart, Ann Phillips. Serial Music: A Classified Bibliography of Writings on Twelve-Tone and Electronic Music." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.
• Bateman, Wayne. "Introduction to Computer Music." New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1980.

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