[Smt-talk] whether to laugh or cry?

[Yuri Broze]

Though I haven't read either, perhaps Aaron Copland's "What to listen for
in music" or Dan Levitin's "This is your brain on music" would be on target
for the nonspecialist interested in classical music or music psychology,
respectively.

Yuri Broze
314.910.3152


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:10 PM, <nancygarniez at tonalrefraction.com> wrote:

> Try "The Sense of Music" by Viktor Zuckerkandl, published by Princeton
> Univ. Press.  This was used as the text for the music course at St. John's
> College in Maryland.  Though in some respects dated its distilled
> descriptions of some musical elements are not only accurate but also
> dynamic.
>
> I liken it to Ezra Pound's "ABC of Reading."
>
> Nancy Garniez
> http://nancygarniez.blogspot.com
> www.tonalrefraction.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Chris Bonds [mailto:chbonds1 at willy.wsc.edu]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:02 PM
> *To:* smt-talk at lists.societymusictheory.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Smt-talk] whether to laugh or cry?
>
>
>
> 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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