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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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480 pages
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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 |
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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 |
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About The Author
Richard Parncutt
Richard Parncutt is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz, Austria.
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