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''Symphonie pour un homme seul'' (''Symphony for One Man Alone'') is a musical composition by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, composed in 1949–1950. It is an important early example of musique concrète. The ''Symphonie'' was premiered at a concert on 18 March 1950. Comprising twenty-two movements of music produced using turntables and mixers,〔Chadabe 1997, 27.〕 it was difficult to perform due to technical problems.〔Chadabe 1997, 31.〕 The number of movements was reduced to 11 for a broadcast in 1951, and then to 12 for the revised 1966 version by Henry. The revised version was used for the ''Pierre Schaeffer – L'oeuvre musicale'' recordings.〔Emmerson 2007, 75.〕 Its movements are as follows: # ''Prosopopée I'' # ''Partita'' # ''Valse'' # ''Erotic'' # ''Scherzo'' # ''Collectif'' # ''Prosopopée II'' # ''Eroïca'' # ''Apostrophe'' # ''Intermezzo'' # ''Cadence'' # ''Strette'' Schaeffer started developing the idea of a "symphony of noises" (''Symphonie de bruits'') soon after he established his studio (''Studio d'Essai'') at RTF (now ORTF).〔Dhomont, Grove.〕 He sketched ideas for sound materials in his journal.〔Emmerson 2007, 75.〕 He later described the completed work as "an opera for blind people, a performance without argument, a poem made of noises, bursts of text, spoken or musical."〔Schaeffer 1973, 22.〕 In the 1952 work ''A la recherche d'une musique concrète'' he commented thus on the nature of the ''Symphonie'': The lone man should find his symphony within himself, not only in conceiving the music in abstract, but in being his own instrument. A lone man possesses considerably more than the twelve notes of the pitched voice. He cries, he whistles, he walks, he thumps his fist, he laughs, he groans. His heart beats, his breathing accelerates, he utters words, launches calls and other calls reply to him. Nothing echoes more a solitary cry than the clamour of crowds.〔Schaeffer 1952, 55.〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Symphonie pour un homme seul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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