Pierre Schaeffer presents a summary of musical research concerning musique concrète, its techniques, its composers and their works from 1948 to 1967.
Table of Contents:
- The concrete adventure
- The lucky finds of 1948
- The inspiration of the concrete (1953-1957)
- The musical research
- Practical work
- The musical subject
- Three precursors: Varèse, Cage, Messiaen
- Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry
- Boulez, Xenakis, Stockhausen
- Three foreign schools
- America
- The Paris school (1951-1967)