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François-Bernard Mâche’s ‘Sacred’ Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

Nicolas Marty
Nicolas Marty*
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Independent researcher and composer (France)
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Email: nicodria@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Drawing on François-Bernard Mâche’s writings as well as interviews and analyses by musicologists, this paper tries to describe how his music may be described as ‘sacred’ music, however devoid of any religious aspects, and what this implies for us as listeners and/or as artists. To Mâche, the sacred is the consideration of a specific relationship to the world as the object and as the subject, as the ‘why’ and as the ‘how’ of music. Musical examples from his mixed music and acousmatic music illustrate how Mâche goes from his theories to more practical aspects of his compositional technique and listening behaviours.

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Organised Sound , Volume 26 , Issue 1: The Sonic and the Electronic in Improvisation , April 2021 , pp. 140 - 144
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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