Download or read book Stages in the Evolution of Music Scales and Harmony written by Robert Fink and published by Robert Martin Fink. This book was released on 2002 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions to the History of Musical Scales written by Charles Kasson Wead and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modalogy written by Jeff Brent and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Jazz Instruction). Primarily a music theory reference, Modalogy presents a unique perspective on the origins, interlocking aspects, and usage of the most common scales and modes in occidental music. Anyone wishing to seriously explore the realms of scales, modes, and their real-world functions will find the most important issues dealt with in meticulous detail within these pages. Logical illustrations accompany in-depth examinations of chordal harmonies, cadential motions, and progressions. This book is perfect for both music students and teachers, as either a course in itself or to augment any theory curriculum.
Download or read book The Chord Scale Theory Jazz Harmony written by Barrie Nettles and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive textbook based on the Chord Scale Theory as taught at the Berklee College of Music.
Download or read book Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture written by Bennett Zon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical culture to question the hegemonic role ascribed to Darwin by later thinkers, and interrogates the conceptual premise of modern debates in evolutionary musicology. Structured around the Great Chain of Being, chapters are organized by discipline in successively ascending order according to their object of study, from zoology and the study of animal music to theology and the music of God. Evolution and Victorian Musical Culture takes a non-Darwinian approach to the interpretation of Victorian scientific and musical interrelationships, debunking the idea that the arts had little influence on contemporary scientific ideas and, by probing the origins of musical interdisciplinarity, the volume shows how music helped ideas about evolution to evolve.
Download or read book The Evolution of Harmony written by Charles Herbert Kitson and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1914 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of Music written by Robert Fink and published by Robert Martin Fink. This book was released on 1981 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Theory 101 written by Brian Boone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers everything novice musicians and lifelong learners need to know. Full of music trivia, music history, comprehensive instruction and visual aids, music symbols, and chords throughout. This is a crash course in music theory that even professionals will enjoy.
Download or read book Failure to Pay the Piper written by Robert Fink and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nature of Music written by Julius Klauser and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this work, the son of the noted musician, Karl Klauser, was one of the most profound, original and philosophical of American musical thinkers. He was born in 1854, and died in 1907. Stated as understandably as possible, his contention was that our harmonic system is really founded upon the tones embraced in the notes used in proceeding diatonically from the dominant to the seventh above (in the key of C--, G, A, B, C, D, E, F), rather than upon the tonic scale. According to his theories the harmony systems of the past are all in error. The way of the innovator is always hard, particularly an innovator with the sincerity and profundity of Julius Klauser. Whether his system is right or not, he has not, so far as our information goes, left a work which could be placed in the hands of the average student of harmony and lead to a practical knowledge of the workings of harmony and composition. Perhaps if Klauser had lived longer, he might have accomplished this. The writer of this review has taken the greatest possible interest in Klauser's writings, but he does not advise anyone but the most earnest and most advanced students to read them. To the musically uninitiated they can only bring confusion. -Etude: The Music Magazine, Volume 28 [1910] From CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING FIRST PRINCIPLES. 1. Questions Science has not yet fathomed the mystery of the origin and early evolutional stages of music. Our knowledge of the evolution of music is confined to the records of a few thousand years of history. Its history plainly shows that music has passed through progressive stages of evolution from simplicity to complexity. But how it began far back in the ages, the causes of its genesis, its shaping energies and forces, its essential nature, these and like questions still wait for a scientific solution. Sound emerges from and evanesces in silence. We assume that incalculable ages ago there was a time when music as yet unborn, unheard, lay dormant in silence, a mere potentiality. The evolutional study of music therefore begins with silence. All that is music is potential in and an evolution of an embryo, namely, the composite of elements upon the genesis of which depended the genesis of music. What is this composite? What are its elements? What is the principle or cause of their union? Where and how did and does this union take place? These are leading questions which confront us in this study. We investigate melody, rhythm, harmony, tonality, the tone-realm or tone-system. What are all these things? What is the origin and nature of each? Which are elements and which are composites? Which is the original and all-inclusive composite? the raison d'être of all the others, in short, the essence of music? Theoretical predilections or subjective bias cause some of us to give the supremacy to melody, others to harmony. We still speak and write about "the intimate connection between melody and harmony," about "harmonized melody" and "melodized harmony." All this plainly implies a common belief that melody and harmony are separable. Are they, have they ever been separable or separated? If not, one of the two is an element of the other. In fact, one of the two includes, is the raison d'être of the other. Which is it? Science has produced no final answers to these questions. Let anyone, musician or layman, consult the testimony of his unprejudiced inner feeling and experience of music and he will say with Mozart, "Melody is the essence of music." I quote Mozart because he was completely free from theoretical bias. He felt and knew this to be true, he felt and knew it instinctively just as we all do. In other words, the truth of this common testimony of common feeling has not been scientifically proved. Nor has it been disproved. Why not? Primarily because the nature of its source, that is, the nature of common music-feeling, has not been fathomed....
Download or read book Selected Essays Readings written by Robert Fink and published by Robert Martin Fink. This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harmony Theory written by Keith Wyatt and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Musicians Institute Press). This book is a step-by-step guide to MI's well-known Harmony and Theory class. It includes complete lessons and analysis of: intervals, rhythms, scales, chords, key signatures; transposition, chord inversions, key centers; harmonizing the major and minor scales; and more!
Download or read book Harmonic Experience written by W. A. Mathieu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, "The rules of music--including counterpoint and harmony--were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies." His theory of music reconciles the ancient harmonic system of just intonation with the modern system of twelve-tone temperament. Saying that the way we think music is far from the way we do music, Mathieu explains why certain combinations of sounds are experienced by the listener as harmonious. His prose often resembles the rhythms and cadences of music itself, and his many musical examples allow readers to discover their own musical responses.
Download or read book A Short History of Harmony written by Charles Macpherson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1944, this book considers musical theory and music history to create a short but comprehensive guide to the history of harmony and thus a discourse on what we understand harmony to be in the modern era. Referencing composers such as Beethoven and his contemporaries, the book is illustrated throughout with visual aids.
Download or read book A Question of Balance written by Taylor Aitken Greer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979). Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now there has been no extended appreciation and critique of Seeger's work as a whole, nor has an accessible guide to his texts been available. Exploring the entire corpus of Charles Seeger's writing, A Question of Balance highlights the work of those persons who most influenced him, especially Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, and Ralph Perry. Invited to inaugurate the music department at the University of California's Berkeley campus in 1912, Seeger became keenly aware of his deficiencies in general education and put himself on a rigorous regimen of intellectual development that included studying history, anthropology, political theory, and philosophy. For the remainder of his life his ideas about music heavily influenced the development of ethnomusicology and systematic musicology. Charles Seeger is perhaps best known as the father of the folk singers Pete, Mike, and Peggy Seeger and as the husband of the innovative American composer Ruth Crawford. This book makes clear that Seeger was an extremely important thinker and educator in his own right. Seeger's intellectual curiosity was as eclectic as it was enthusiastic, and Greer skillfully weaves together the connections Seeger made between music, the humanities, and the sciences. The result is a luminous tapestry depicting Seeger's ideal schemes of musicology. At the same time it reflects the turbulence and vitality in American musical life during the early decades of the century.
Download or read book The Nature of Music written by Jules Klauser and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this work, the son of the noted musician, Karl Klauser, was one of the most profound, original and philosophical of American musical thinkers. He was born in 1854, and died in 1907. Stated as understandably as possible, his contention was that our harmonic system is really founded upon the tones embraced in the notes used in proceeding diatonically from the dominant to the seventh above (in the key of C----, G, A, B, C, D, E, F), rather than upon the tonic scale. According to his theories the harmony systems of the past are all in error. The way of the innovator is always hard, particularly an innovator with the sincerity and profundity of Julius Klauser. Whether his system is right or not, he has not, so far as our information goes, left a work which could be placed in the hands of the average student of harmony and lead to a practical knowledge of the workings of harmony and composition. Perhaps if Klauser had lived longer, he might have accomplished this. The writer of this review has taken the greatest possible interest in Klauser's writings, but he does not advise anyone but the most earnest and most advanced students to read them. To the musically uninitiated they can only bring confusion.--Etude: The Music Magazine, Volume 28 [1910]From CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING FIRST PRINCIPLES1. QuestionsScience has not yet fathomed the mystery of the origin and early evolutional stages of music. Our knowledge of the evolution of music is confined to the records of a few thousand years of history. Its history plainly shows that music has passed through progressive stages of evolution from simplicity to complexity. But how it began far back in the ages, the causes of its genesis, its shaping energies and forces, its essential nature, these and like questions still wait for a scientific solution. Sound emerges from and evanesces in silence. We assume that incalculable ages ago there was a time when music as yet unborn, unheard, lay dormant in silence, a mere potentiality. The evolutional study of music therefore begins with silence. All that is music is potential in and an evolution of an embryo, namely, the composite of elements upon the genesis of which depended the genesis of music. What is this composite? What are its elements? What is the principle or cause of their union? Where and how did and does this union take place? These are leading questions which confront us in this study. We investigate melody, rhythm, harmony, tonality, the tone-realm or tone-system. What are all these things? What is the origin and nature of each? Which are elements and which are composites? Which is the original and all-inclusive composite? the raison d'etre of all the others, in short, the essence of music? Theoretical predilections or subjective bias cause some of us to give the supremacy to melody, others to harmony. We still speak and write about "the intimate connection between melody and harmony," about "harmonized melody" and "melodized harmony." All this plainly implies a common belief that melody and harmony are separable. Are they, have they ever been separable or separated? If not, one of the two is an element of the other. In fact, one of the two includes, is the raison d'etre of the other. Which is it? Science has produced no final answers to these questions. Let anyone, musician or layman, consult the testimony of his unprejudiced inner feeling and experience of music and he will say with Mozart, "Melody is the essence of music." I quote Mozart because he was completely free from theoretical bias. He felt and knew this to be true, he felt and knew it instinctively just as we all do. In other words, the truth of this common testimony of common feeling has not been scientifically proved. Nor has it been disproved. Why not? Primarily because the nature of its source, that is, the nature of common music-feeling, has not been fathomed....
Download or read book The Geometry of Musical Rhythm written by Godfried T. Toussaint and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good? is the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explains how the study of the mathematical properties of musical rhythm generates common mathematical problems that arise in a variety of seemingly dispara
