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Author Parncutt, Richard, 1957- author.

Title Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality / Richard Parncutt
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "A leading music psychologist and theorist explains how Major-Minor Tonality came to assume its dominant place within music composition"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis MUSIC / History & Criticism
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
SCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 12, 2024)
Subject Tonality.
Psychoacoustics.
Chords (Music)
Musical intervals and scales.
Chords (Music)
Musical intervals and scales
Psychoacoustics
Tonality
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023007828
ISBN 9780262377362
0262377365
9780262377379
0262377373