| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (xli, 569 pages) |
| Content |
text txt |
| Media |
computer c |
| Carrier |
online resource cr |
| Note |
Translated from the French. |
| Contents |
Introductory remarks: the historical situation of music -- 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 -- Book seven. Implementation ; The meaning of music -- Penultimate chapter : in search of music itself -- Post-script. |
| Note |
In English. |
| Alt author |
North, Christine, translator.
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Dack, John, translator.
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| ISBN |
9780520967465 (electronic book) |
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0520967461 (electronic book) |
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9780520294295 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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0520294297 |
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9780520294295 |
| Standard # |
10.1525/9780520967465 doi |
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