In Search of a Concrete Music

Author: Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265742
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Suitable for those interested in contemporary musicology or media history, this title offers a translation of the author's pioneering work - at once a journal of his experiments in sound composition and a treatise on the raison d'etre of concrete music.

In Search of a Concrete Music

Author: Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265734
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Originally published: A la recherche d'une musique concrete / Pierre Schaeffer. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1952.

Treatise on Musical Objects

Author: Pierre Schaeffer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520967461
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 614

Book Description
The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer’s essay summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translators Christine North and John Dack present an important book in the history of ideas in Europe that will resonate far beyond electroacoustic music.

Composing with Tape Recorders

Author: Terence Dwyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description

Searching for the Sound

Author: Phil Lesh
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316027812
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
The legendary bass player tells the full, true story of his years with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead in this "insightful and entertaining" (Austin Chronicle) memoir of life in the greatest improvisational band in American history. In a book "as graceful and sublime as a box of rain" (New York Times Book Review), the beloved bassist tells the stories behind the songs, tours, and jams in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip from the 1960s to the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995 and beyond. From Ken Kesey's "acid tests" to the Summer of Love to bestselling albums and worldwide tours, the Dead's story has never been told as honestly or as memorably as in this remarkable memoir. "A fun ride...Even for the most well-read Deadhead, there's enough between the covers to make Searching for the Sound worth a look." —Associated Press

Music in the Human Experience

Author: Donald A. Hodges
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429018320
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 665

Book Description
Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Second Edition, is geared toward music students yet incorporates other disciplines to provide an explanation for why and how we make sense of music and respond to it—cognitively, physically, and emotionally. All human societies in every corner of the globe engage in music. Taken collectively, these musical experiences are widely varied and hugely complex affairs. How did human beings come to be musical creatures? How and why do our bodies respond to music? Why do people have emotional responses to music? Music in the Human Experience seeks to understand and explain these phenomena at the core of what it means to be a human being. New to this edition: Expanded references and examples of non-Western musical styles Updated literature on philosophical and spiritual issues Brief sections on tuning systems and the acoustics of musical instruments A section on creativity and improvisation in the discussion of musical performance New studies in musical genetics Greatly increased usage of explanatory figures

Cement and Concrete

Author: M.S.J Gan
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780412790508
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Cement and concrete are of great interest to the construction and civil engineering communities. This study provides an appreciation of the complex nature of these materials and a realization that most of the failures involving concrete constructions are preventable.

MUSIC AND THE MIND

Author: Anthony Storr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501122096
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues that the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence.

Concrete Music

Author: J. Raymond
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522904595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The highly anticipated follow up to the best selling collection of poetry and prose, Spades, by J. Raymond. Concrete Music, described as a "guttural glimpse into the heart and mind of one of this generations most honest voices."

Interpreting Music

Author: Lawrence Kramer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520267052
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
This is a comprehensive essay on musical meaning and performing music meaningfully - 'interpreting music' in both senses of the term. The author argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general.