Research Catalog

Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality

Title
Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality / Richard Parncutt.
Author
Parncutt, Richard, 1957-
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library JME 24-222Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

Details

Description
xx, 452 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"A leading music psychologist and theorist explains how Major-Minor Tonality came to assume its dominant place within music composition"--
Subject
  • Tonality
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Chords (Music)
  • Musical intervals and scales
  • Musical intervals and scales
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Tonality
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-423) and index.
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.
Call Number
JME 24-222
ISBN
  • 9780262547352
  • 026254735X
  • 9780262377379 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780262377362 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2023007827
OCLC
1379479894
Author
Parncutt, Richard, 1957- author.
Title
Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality / Richard Parncutt.
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-423) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Parncutt, Richard, 1957- Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024 9780262377379 (DLC) 2023007828
Research Call Number
JME 24-222
View in Legacy Catalog