A la recherche d'une musique concrete In Search of a Concrete Music

by Pierre Schaeffer

$275 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1952. First French Edition, preceding all others. Review copy, with with the letters S.P. Service de Presse punched onto the rear wrapper. Text in French. A foundational document on the development of musique concrete by composer and musicologist Schaeffer, who had coined the term four years earlier, which would influence not only 20th century experimental composers, but also DJs,

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