# 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.

## List
### Fiction
#### 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)