The Foundations of Music (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Watt, Henry J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440088292 ISBN 13 : 9781440088292

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how sound shapes our emotions and how harmony really works.

In this classic work, the author examines music as a living art that connects with our inner experience. The discussion spans music’s links to dance and visual art, and it considers how different musical devices influence feeling, attention, and perception. Through historical and contemporary perspectives, the book analyzes harmony, consonance, and the movement of voices, offering a clear path from theory to listening.

The book blends musical examples with thought on how audiences experience sound, and it surveys the long debate over rules and exceptions in harmony. It situates ideas in a broad scholarly network, citing many influential writers and composers to illuminate how theory meets practice in real music.

• Clear explanations of harmony, consonance, and the way voices interact in a texture.


• Discussion of critical questions about traditional rules and their practical use.


• Historical context showing how ideas about sound evolved among composers and theorists.


• Accessible reflections on how music relates to emotion, perception, and other arts.

Ideal for readers curious about how musical meaning is created, and for students of music history, theory, and psychology.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Foundations of Music

In my previous volume The Psychology of Sound I made a minutely critical analysis of the elementary phenomena of sound and their simpler complexities, and I developed what seemed to me to be the only systematically true and promising theory of these phenomena. The work was necessarily addressed to those who are primarily interested in such a study, i.e. to psychologists and to physiologists. But I endeavoured to make the material as interesting to the theoretical musician as was possible under the circumstances.

Not that the latter has little interest in such fundamental analysis. On the contrary he is profoundly concerned to know how his art springs from its roots in mere sound and to see that the foundations ascribed to it are such as will evidently suffice to bear the whole superstructure of music. But the purely psychological or 'phenomenal' point of view could not but be new and strange to his mind, requiring some time to come into growth and fruition there. Once the essential nature of the position has been grasped, its spontaneous development is certain.

There is no inherent difficulty in ascribing volume and order to sounds or to tones. The difficulty springs merely from the unfamiliarity of the object in such connexions. At the present day conviction is much more easily secured for descriptions and theories of material objects - even although many of their students may never have come into contact with them at all - than it is for descriptions and theories of psychical objects, although their students are almost of necessity constantly face to face with them at any desired moment. Every one who takes any interest in music has had unlimited opportunities of turning his observations upon tones and their sequences and combinations. But in the great majority of cases he has seldom, if ever, looked studiously at pictures or models of the sensory organ of hearing and in all probability knows nothing of t…

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440088292
• ISBN 13: 9781440088292
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 257
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