The Concept of Music

ISBN-13: 9780198163886 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 200 str.

Robin Maconie

Opis

What is music for? How does it work? What can it teach us? Intuitively, we feel there must be answers to such questions, but they tend to be scattered throughout a wide range of different areas of study, from acoustics to music history, from psychology to composition. In this brilliant and thought-provoking book, Maconie seeks the answers to these and other fundamental questions about music, integrating music and appropriate scientific research in a new evaluation of his topic. In so doing, he argues passionately for a reappraisal of music, not as mere entertainment, but as something basic to our experience of listening and communicating in sound, and an art which has exerted a profound influence on society.

Recenzje

Enormously well-informed about the practical realities of acoustics, the physics of sound, the history and architecture of music rooms, the design of instruments

Spis treści

Communication; The pleasure of hearing; Looking and listening; Sound vibrations; Attraction; Sounds like reality; Orchestra; Time; Space; Belief systems; Scales; Melody, harmony, tonality; Notation; Ornamentation; Instruments; Sharps and flats; Enclosures; Palladio; Dissonance; Applause; Select bibliography; Index

O autorze

Composer and writer on music. Author of The Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen (OUP, 1990)