Animaux musicaux: apologie pour une histoire naturelle sonore
- Submitting institution
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Roehampton University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 585395
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Histoires naturelles des animaux XXe-XXIe siècles. Alain Romestaing et Alains Schaffner (eds)
- Publisher
- Presses Univ Paris-Sorbonne
- ISBN
- 978-2-87854-692-7
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This chapter considers how the notion of natural history appeared in French musical compositions of the 20th century and how its presence was instrumental in freeing composers from the established nationalism and sentimentalism which permeated musical works at the time. 20th-century composers used new strategies to break away from conventional representations. Most creatively, they borrowed descriptive methods from natural history in order to observe the natural world through musical language. The chapter concludes that musicians thus also pioneered an approach to natural history that does not exclusively rely on the visual, but rather depends on sound.
