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Record Nr.

UNINA9910901888403321

Autore

Parncutt Richard <1957->

Titolo

Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality / / Richard Parncutt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2024

ISBN

9780262377362

0262377365

9780262377379

0262377373

9780262547352

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 pages)

Disciplina

781.2/6

Soggetti

Tonality

Psychoacoustics

Chords (Music)

Musical intervals and scales

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Interdisciplinary Introduction. Definitions ; Approaches ; Rudiments -- II. Extra-Musical Foundations. Metaphysics ; Auditory Scene Analysis ; Auditory Sensitivity -- III. Musical Foundations. Matthew Shirlaw ; Hugo Riemann ; Diverse Epistemologies ; Scales and Intervals ; Chant and the Leading Tone ; Notation, Accidentals, and Enharmonics -- IV. Perception of Sonority. Pitch ; Consonance and Dissonance ; The Root of a Chord ; Spectral Pitch in Chords ; Jazz Harmony -- V. Perception of Progression. Pitch Commonality ; Tonality ; Progression and Modulation ; Structural Cognition -- VI. The Big Picture. Theoretic Evaluation ; Universals and Diversity.

Sommario/riassunto

"A leading music psychologist and theorist explains how Major-Minor Tonality came to assume its dominant place within music composition"--