BIBFRAME Work

Title

Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Parncutt, Richard, 1957- (aut)

Subject

• Psychoacoustics (LCSH)
• Chords (Music) (LCSH)
• Musical intervals and scales (LCSH)
• Tonality (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• LCC: ML3811 .P37 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 781.2/6 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

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

Table of 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.

Authorized Access Point

Parncutt, Richard, 1957-. Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality

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