Pierre Schaeffer bibliography

The bibliography of Pierre Schaeffer is a list of the fictional and nonfictional writings of the electroacoustic musician-theoretician and pioneer of musique concrète, Pierre Schaeffer.

Novels and short stories

 * Chlothar Nicole (1938)
 * The Choirboys (1949) not choir but heart (same vocal word in French)
 * The Old Man and His Movements (1964)
 * The Guardian of The Volcano (1969)
 * Excuse Me, I'm Dying and Other Fabulations (1981)
 * Prelude, Choral and Fugue (1981)
 * Faber and Sapiens (1986)

Plays

 * Tobie (1939)
 * Secular Games (1946)

Non-fiction

 * America, We Ignore You (1946)
 * In Search of a Concrete Music (1952)
 * Towards an Experimental Music: Under the Direction of Pierre Schaeffer (1957) *
 * Treatise on Musical Objects (1966)
 * Concrete Music (1967)
 * Music and Acoustics (1967)
 * The Future Backwards (1970)
 * Machines for Communicating 1. Genesis of Simulacra (1970)
 * From Musical Experience to the Human Experience (1971)
 * The Service of Research: Structures and Orientation (1974)

* An expanded version published by Richard-Masse later in 1957, based upon the article of the same name. (See "Towards an Experimental Music" below, under heading "Articles and essays".)

Articles and essays

 * Basic Truths ("Revue Musicale"; 1938)
 * The Non-Visual Element of Films ("Revue du cinéma"; 1946)
 * Introduction to Concrete Music ("Polyphonie"; 1950)
 * To Give Ear, To Give Thought ("The Nave"; 1951)
 * The Musical Object ("Revue Musicale"; 1952)
 * The Experience of Concrete Music (1952)
 * Towards an Experimental Music ("Revue Musicale"; 1957) *
 * Musical Experiences. Music More Concrete, More Electronic, More Exotic ("Revue Musicale"; 1959)
 * Experiences in Paris, June 1959 ("Revue Musicale"; 1959)
 * The Old Man (1964)
 * New Reflections on the Communication[s] Triangle ("Les cahiers de la télévision"; 1969)
 * Machines for Communicating ("Bulletin of the French Corporation of Philosophy"; 1970)
 * Music and Computers ("Revue Musicale"; 1971)
 * The Press of Television: A Mediator ("UER"; 1971)
 * Society in the Mirror ("La jaune et la rouge"; 1971)
 * Music for the Year 2000 ("Etudes"; 1971)
 * The Communication[s] Triangle ("Notebooks of the Canadian Cultural Center"; 1971)
 * Development of Public Service Television Networks: Prospects, Symptoms and Basic Assumptions (1972)
 * Letter to the Researchers of Men ("Mail of the CNRS"; 1972)
 * Machines for Communicating, Machines for Calculating ("IBM Computers", 1972)
 * The Television in Public Services ("Communication and Languages"; 1972)
 * Sound and Communication ("Cultures"; 1973)
 * The Audiovisual: Method of Communication or Common Knowledge? ("Swiss-French Economics"; 1973)
 * In Search of Music Itself ("Revue Musicale Swiss"; 1975)
 * Darwin and Marconi or the End of Television ("The Imaginaries", 1976)

* An article published 1957, later that year expanded into a book of the same name. (See "Towards an Experimental Music: Under the Direction of Pierre Schaeffer" above, under heading "Non-fiction".)

Collaborative works

 * Conversations with Pierre Schaeffer (Marc Pierret; 1969)
 * Pierre Schaeffer followed by Reflections of Pierre Schaeffer (Sophie Brunet; 1969)
 * Machines for Communicating 2. Power and Communication (Sophie Brunet; 1972)
 * The Regulation of Microbic Sporulation (Jekisiel Szulmajster, J.P. Aubert; 1973)
 * The Semiotics of Representation: Theatre, Television, and Comics (1975)
 * Pierre Schaeffer: From Concrete Music to Music Itself (Sophie Brunet; 1977)
 * The Antennas of Jericho (Claude Glayman; 1978)
 * Guide to Acoustic Objects: Pierre Schaeffer and Musical Research (Michel Chion; 1983)
 * The Gentle Revolution: Musique Concrète (Linda G. Witnov; 1985)
 * A Visit to Brangues: Conversations Between Paul Claudel, Jacques Madaule and Pierre Schaeffer (Paul Claudel, Jaques Madaule; 2005)