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On 2/21/2013 6:39 PM, Richard Cohn wrote:
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cite="mid:CAMx_96G-MLnNCymPE12WpcG+sK+cQ=khWV2rhM475LX9PfaWjw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:
collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;">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."
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<div>My best guess: </div>
<div>^1 sounds in the 14th century; </div>
<div>^2 sounds in the 15th century</div>
<div>.....the 20th century has the leading tone</div>
<div>and here we are now on the tonic. Finally.</div>
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<div>Which makes them maximally even, as they should be.</div>
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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!<br>
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Christopher Bonds<br>
Wayne State College, Emeritus<br>
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