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Robert Normandeau

A revision of the TARTYP published by Pierre Schaeffer

Facult de musique, Universit de Montral

robert.normandeau@umontreal.ca

Abstract

Over the last 10 years I have taught the course on auditory perception at the faculty of music of Universitde Montral. This subject is one of the oldest within the electroacoustic music program. Even before theprogram has been officially launched in 1980, Marcelle Deschnes was already teaching it (and hadalready done so in Qubec City in the 70's). Francis Dhomont succeeded her in the 80's and after two orthree different lecturers, in 1999, I was put in charge of the esthetics of the electroacoustic music courses.Originally namedPerception auditive(Auditory Perception), one of the main courses is now since2003 called Typologie et morphologie sonore1. The course content includes the Pierre Scheaffer'stypology and morphology, as well as the typology of soundscape by R. Murray Schaffer and the differentwriting techniques used in electroacoustic music (transmitted by Francis Dhomont before he returned toFrance). The general idea is to give the students a lexicon of words and tools to describe the sounds.

Typology: a revision

This conference is a proposition for a revision of the typology table by Pierre Schaeffer the TARTYP:TAbleau Rcapitulatif de la TYPologie) as well as a proposition for a French/English correspondenceof the terms and symbols used in the table. Actually, even if the Michel Chion's Guide des objets sonoreshas been recently translated in English,2the TARTYP itself (and the abbreviations used in it) remains in

French. Some of the terms used in the table are obsolete, some categories are almost useless and someterms are ambiguous. After 10 years of using it in a university course and after many discussions withmore than 200 students, it is time for a major upgrade.

1. TARTYP

1.1. The original TARTYP

This what the TARTYP was looking like in the Trait des objets musicauxpublished by Pierre Schaefferin 1966, p. 459:

1 http://cours.musique.umontreal.ca/mus1217/index.html2By John Dack, Christine North and available on the EARS web site:http://www.ears.dmu.ac.uk/spip.php?page=articleEars&id_article=3597

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Robert Normandeau - A revision of the TARTYP published by Pierre Schaeffer

Proceedings of the Seventh Electroacoustic Music Studies Network ConferenceShanghai, 21-24 June 2010

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