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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I recall the Talking Heads movie was called "Stop Making Sense." Just a thought.<br>
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Gretchen<br>
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Gretchen Horlacher<br>
Associate Prof. of Music Theory<br>
Jacobs School of Music<br>
Indiana University<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF795836"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org [smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org] on behalf of nancygarniez@tonalrefraction.com [nancygarniez@tonalrefraction.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 22, 2013 2:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Chris Bonds<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Smt-talk] whether to laugh or cry?<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">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
<font size="2">Maryland. Though in some respects dated<font size="2"> its <font size="2">
distilled descriptions of some <font size="2">musical elements are not only accurate<font size="2"> but also dynamic.<br>
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<font size="2">I liken it to Ezra Pound<font size="2">'s "ABC of Reading." <br>
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<font size="2">Nancy Garniez</font></font></font> </font></font></font></font></font></font>
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<b>From:</b> Chris Bonds [mailto:chbonds1@willy.wsc.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>
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On 2/21/2013 6:39 PM, Richard Cohn wrote:
<blockquote 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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