Routledge Research in Music

<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>