Timbre concept and the representations in the contemporary instrumental and/or electroacoustic music since the twentieth century

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02115
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: Mizuno Mikako 名古屋市立大学, 大学院芸術工学研究科, 教授 (50295622)
• Research Collaborator: Battier Marc パリ・ソルボンヌ大学, 名誉教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 電子音響音楽 / ピエール・シェフェール / ピエール・ブーレーズ / 音響生成 / 音楽理論 / オブジェ・ソノール / 演奏形態

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the contemporary music since the latter half of twentieth century, sounds have drastically changed and developed by the composers. Concrete music by Pierre Schaeffer and the serialism of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez cut into the new phase of timbre in 1940’s and 1950’s. Timbre has a correlation with pitch because the spectrum is structured by several layers od pitches. Some composers have developed new strategies of timbre together with electronic devices or with computer programming. The others have challenged the new instrumentation which has contradiction to the natural harmonics. In this research, the primary sources of Pierre Schaeffer have been minutely censored as well as some musical scores involving electronic parts. New musical pieces were composed and presented in the international conferences and concerts.

Free Research Field

作曲・音楽学