Naslov
Social and/or Educational Aspects of Pierre Schaeffer’s musique concrète: On the Utopian Fate of Music as a Project

Autori
Gligo, Nikša

Izvornik
European journal for semiotic studies (1015-0102) 14 (2002), 1-2; 149-163

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
musique concrète; Pierre Schaeffer; solfège expérimental concret

Sažetak
The specific notion of "concreteness" (as opposed to "abstractness") in Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète requires revalorization of the whole notion of music. If we want to discuss the consequences of musique concrète, the "concreteness" of sound material does not suffice. For Schaeffer, the concreteness of the sound is just the sound heard from which one has to extract the musical values. Therefore, both "concrete" and "abstract" are for him "two isotopes of reality". The main goal of Schaeffer's "solfège expérimental) concret", with typology, morphology, characterology, analysis and synthesis as its "disciplines", is the educational preparation for the "sound objects" to become "musical objects", because the aspect of concreteness cannot be left at the level of its mere "naturalness". "Solfège des objets musicaux" is therefore the most important project in Schaeffer's theory which should compensate the regulative role of scale system in traditional ("abstract") music, but - of course - far away from any normative unambiguousness, which seems to be impossible for music whose theoretical concepts strive for the further development of musical experience, of listening, and of musical praxis in general. Schaeffer's musique concrète is therefore a utopian concept, the reality of which is highly dependent on elaboration through appropriate educational methods which are the conditional part of Schaeffer's theory as project.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti

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