Musical Beliefs: Psychoacoustic, Mythical, and Educational Perspectives

by Robert Walker

In this book, the author argues that what constitutes music in various societies is culturally based, not the result of some universal aspect of human physical and psychological make-up. This is true not only in non-Western music cultures, but in the West as well. Contrary to popular belief among musicians and the general public, the basis of Western music and acoustics is not scientific, but superstitious. Pythagorean mathematics as it relates to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807730084
• ISBN13: 9780807730089
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 253 Pages