Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality, 9780262547352
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Unlock Western music’s secrets: Psychoacoustics, music theory, and cultural history collide.

Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality

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  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    18 March 2024

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Summary

Unlocking Harmony: A Psychoacoustic Journey Through Major-Minor Tonality

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 Psychoacous…

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:18 March 2024
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Richard Parncutt

Richard Parncutt is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz, Austria.

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