Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality

by Richard Parncutt

A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do.

Despite the cultural diversity of our globalized world, most Western music is still structured around major and minor scales and chords. Countless thinkers and scientists of the past have struggled to explain the nature and origin of musical structures. In Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026254735X
• ISBN13: 9780262547352
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"