From Music to Sound

<p>From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound offering a plural original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm moving from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound. Each chapter follows a chronological progression and is illustrated with numerous musical examples. The chapters are composed of six parallel histories: <i>timbre</i><i> </i>which became a central category for musical composition; <i>noise</i> and the exploration of its musical potential; <i>listening</i> the awareness of which opens to the generality of sound; deeper and deeper <i>immersion</i> in sound; the substitution of composing<i> the</i> sound for composing <i>with</i> sounds; and <i>space</i> which is progressively viewed as composable.</p><p>The book proposes a global overview one of the first of its kind since its ambition is to systematically delimit the emergence of sound. Both well-known and lesser-known works and composers are analysed in detail; from Debussy to contemporary music in the early twenty-first century; from rock to electronica; from the sound objects of the earliest <i>musique concrète</i> to current electroacoustic music; from the <i>Poème électronique</i> of Le Corbusier-Varèse-Xenakis to the most recent inter-arts attempts.</p><p>Covering theory analysis and aesthetics <i>From Music to Sound</i> will be of great interest to scholars professionals and students of Music Musicology Sound Studies and Sonic Arts.</p><p>Supporting musical examples can be accessed via the online Routledge Music Research Portal.</p>