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Musique Concrète Today: Its reach, evolution of concepts and role in musical thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Daniel Teruggi
Daniel Teruggi*
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Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, 19 Avenue du Général Mangin, 75016 Paris, France
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Email: dteruggi@ina.fr
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Abstract

Musique concrète has become a well-known word and concept. The history of the concept permits us to understand how it evolved and how its inventor, Pierre Schaeffer, felt about it and its impact. The terms have gone through several transformations, the main one being that into the term acousmatique, which implied a change of perspective in the reach of the concept. Today musique concrète is an active concept, not generally applied to describe contemporary musical creation, however embedded in musical thought and theory.

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Organised Sound , Volume 20 , Issue 1: Special issue: Organised Sound Celebrates 20 Years , April 2015 , pp. 51 - 59
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