DDEX Data Dictionary, 19-12-03

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MusiqueConcrete

Experimental electronic music that involves the manipulation and layering of tape recordings. Its theoretical underpinnings were developed by the French composer Pierre Schaeffer in the early 1940s. The term concréte refers to the fact that the music is fixed and does not change from performance to performance.

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Parents	ClassicalMusic	Traditional Western art music. Though wide-ranging in sound and style, it is largely characterized by its system of staff notation, and often by its musical complexity.
Belongs to AVS	avs:SubGenre	A Type of SubGenre.

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