[Smt-talk] whether to laugh or cry?

[Chris Bonds]

On 2/21/2013 6:39 PM, Richard Cohn wrote:
> David Byrne's best-selling book "How Music Works", on the front-table 
> in many book-stores, has a quasi-learned discourse, with dutiful refs. 
> to Pythagoras etc., on "diachronic scales."
>
> My best guess:
> ^1 sounds in the 14th century;
> ^2 sounds in the 15th century
> .....the 20th century has the leading tone
> and here we are now on the tonic. Finally.
>
> Which makes them maximally even, as they should be.
>

If someone knows of  an intelligently-written book on "how music works" 
that the lay person can learn from, and yet will not be an embarrassment 
to the professional, let me know!

Christopher Bonds
Wayne State College, Emeritus

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