Comparing notes : how we make sense of music Adam Ockelford.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2018Copyright date: �2018Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: 344 pages : illustrations, tables, charts ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781681777443
- 1681777444
- ML3830 .O25 2017
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Prelude : Insights from the blind -- How does music work? -- The zygonic conjecture -- How we construct musical meaning -- We are all musical -- Composing, performing and lsitening -- Postlude : Notes compared.
An exploration of the abstract patterns of sound that we call g2smusicg3s invites readers to immerse themselves in the psychology of how music works, from pitch and rhythm, to dynamics and timbre and to the principle of imitation.
Includes notes (pages 302-321), further reading (pages 322-326), llist of figures (pages 327-332) and index (pages 333-344).