Texture et matériau dans la pensée musicale contemporaine
Texture and material in contemporary musical thought

Summary/Abstract: The word texture designates, according to the definition of the Robert dictionary, the arrangement of the threads of a woven thing, applying quite naturally to the principles of weaving and, by extension, can concern the arrangement of sound elements. In musical vocabulary, the term "texture" is uncommon and most often ignored by specialized dictionaries; However, this notion has occupied a determining place in the thinking of a large number of composers since the 1950s. Allowing us to consider questions of timbre and the conception of orchestral writing from a new angle, it will be considered successively in works by Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Brown, Carter, Feldman and through the electro-acoustic approach.

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