Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Treatise on Musical Objects and the GRM xv
4. Translators’ Introduction xxi
5. Pierre Schaeffer’s Treatise on Musical Objects and Music Theory xxix
6. Acknowledgments xxxv
7. Preface xxxvii
8. Introductory Remarks: The Historical Situation of Music 1
9. Book One: Making Music
10. 1. The Instrumental Prerequisite 23
11. 2. Playing an Instrument 31
12. 3. Capturing Sounds 46
13. 4. Acousmatics 64
14. Book Two: Hearing
15. 5. “What Can Be Heard” 73
16. 6. The Four Listening Modes 80
17. 7. Scientific Prejudice 94
18. 8. The Hearing Intention 103
19. Book Three: Correlations between the Physical Signal and the Musical Object
20. 9. Ambiguities in Musical Acoustics 119
21. 10. Correlation between Spectra and Pitches 130
22. 11. Thresholds and Transients 150
23. 12. Temporal Anamorphoses I: Timbres and Dynamics 163
24. 13. Temporal Anamorphoses II: Timbre and Instrument 180
25. 14. Time and Duration 190
26. Book Four: Objects and Structures
27. 15. Reduction to the Object 205
28. 16. Perceptual Structures 220
29. 17. Comparative Structures: Music and Language 232
30. 18. The Conventional Musical System: Musicality and Sonority 249
31. 19. Natural Sound Structures: Musicianly Listening 263
32. 20. The Reduced Listening System: Musical Dualism 276
33. 21. Musical Research 285
34. Book Five: Morphology and Typology of Sound Objects
35. 22. Morphology of Sound Objects 309
36. 23. The Laboratory 321
37. 24. Typology of Musical Objects (I): Classification Criteria 340
38. 25. Typology of Musical Objects (II): Balanced and Redundant Objects 352
39. 26. Typology of Musical Objects (III): Eccentric Sounds 360
40. 27. Working at Our Instrument 367
41. Book Six: Theory of Musical Objects
42. 28. Musical Experience 379
43. 29. Generalizing Music Theory 391
44. 30. Theory of Homogeneous Sounds: Criterion of Mass 406
45. 31. Theory of Fixed Masses: Dynamic Criterion 422
46. 32. Theory of Sustainment 436
47. 33. Theory of Variations 447
48. 34. Analysis of the Musical Object as It Generally Appears 462
49. Book Seven: Music as a Discipline
50. 35. Implementation 479
51. 36. The Meaning of Music 513
52. Penultimate Chapter: In Search of Music Itself 530
53. Postscript 561
54. Index 563