Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2024
Summary
A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do.
Despite the cultural diversity of our globalized world, most Western music is still structured around major and minor scales and chords. Countless thinkers and scientists of the past have struggled to explain the nature and origin of musical structures.
In Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality, music psychologist Richar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547352 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026254735X |
| Author: | Richard Parncutt |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“…a passionate exploration of what could be referred to as “music beyond music,” touching on scientific practice and mission, culture, prejudices and, ultimately, humanity.”
— Empirical Musicology Review
“Parncutt is targeting researchers and graduate students in music theory or cognition, but I believe that also those in music education would benefit from a hard analysis of their assumptions on what makes something “music”. Besides the opportunity for self-reflection, this book would help prepare them for the second grader asking about the numbers on the tuning fork. Those “…but why, tho’?” questions children ask from a naturalistic perspective touch on deeper ideas than we realize.”
— Perception
About The Author
Richard Parncutt
Richard Parncutt is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz, Austria.
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