Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality

Submitted by Joseph Hafner on 22 April, 2025 - 21:30

Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Parncutt, Richard,

Source:

The MIT Press,, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, p.xx, 452 pages : (2024)

Call Number:

ML3811

Keywords:

Accords (Musique), Chords (Music), fast, Intervalles et gammes., Musical intervals and scales, Musical intervals and scales., Musique, Psychoacoustics, Psychoacoustics., Psychoacoustique., Tonalité., Tonality, Tonality.

Notes:

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