{"product_id":"psychoacoustic-foundations-of-majorminor-tonality-isbn-9780262547352","title":"Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the cultural diversity of our globalized world, most Western music is still structured around major and minor scales and chords. Countless thinkers and scientists of the past have struggled to explain the nature and origin of musical structures. In\u003ci\u003e Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality\u003c\/i\u003e, music psychologist Richard Parncutt offers a fresh take, combining music theory—Rameau’s fundamental bass, Riemann’s harmonic function, Schenker’s hierarchic analysis, Forte’s pitch-class set theory—with psychology—Bregman’s auditory scene, Terhardt’s virtual pitch, Krumhansl’s tonal hierarchy. Drawing on statistical analyses of notated music corpora, Parncutt charts a middle path between cultural relativism and scientific positivism to bring music theory into meaningful discourse with empirical research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur musical subjectivity, Parncutt explains, depends on our past musical experience and hence on music history and its social contexts. It also depends on physical sound properties, as investigated in psychoacoustics with auditory experiments and mathematical models. Parncutt’s evidence-based theory of major-minor tonality draws on his interdisciplinary background to present a theory that is comprehensive, creative, and critical. Examining concepts of interval, consonance, chord root, leading tone, harmonic progression, and modulation, he asks:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy are some scale tones and chord progressions more common than others?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat aspects of major-minor tonality are based on human biology or general perceptual principles? What aspects are culturally arbitrary? And what about colonial history?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginal and provocative, \u003ci\u003ePsychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality \u003c\/i\u003epromises to become a foundational text in both music theory and music cognition.Terms and Abbreviations vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Interdisciplinary Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1 Definitions 3\u003cbr\u003e 2 Approaches 27\u003cbr\u003e 3 Rudiments 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII Extramusical Foundations\u003cbr\u003e 4 Metaphysics 65\u003cbr\u003e 5 Auditory Scene Analysis 91\u003cbr\u003e 6 Auditory Sensitivity 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII Musical Foundations\u003cbr\u003e 7 Matthew Shirlaw 115\u003cbr\u003e 8 Hugo Riemann 125\u003cbr\u003e 9 Diverse Epistemologies 137\u003cbr\u003e 10 Scales and Intervals 151\u003cbr\u003e 11 Chant and the Leading Tone 175\u003cbr\u003e 12 Accidentals and Enharmonics 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV Perception of Sonority\u003cbr\u003e 13   Pitch 201\u003cbr\u003e 14 Consonance and Dissonance 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15 The Root of a Chord 251\u003cbr\u003e 16 Spectral Pitch in Chords 273\u003cbr\u003e 17 Jazz Harmony 283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV Perception of Progression\u003cbr\u003e 18 Pitch Commonality 295\u003cbr\u003e 19   Tonality 305\u003cbr\u003e 20 Progression and Modulation 317\u003cbr\u003e 21 Structural Cognition 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI The Big Picture\u003cbr\u003e 22 Theoretical Evaluation 353\u003cbr\u003e 23 Universals and Diversity 363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences 377\u003cbr\u003e Index 425“…a passionate exploration of what could be referred to as “music beyond music,” touching on scientific practice and mission, culture, prejudices and, ultimately, humanity.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e Empirical Musicology Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Parncutt is targeting researchers and graduate students in music theory or cognition, but I believe that also those in music education would benefit from a hard analysis of their assumptions on what makes something “music”. Besides the opportunity for self-reflection, this book would help prepare them for the second grader asking about the numbers on the tuning fork. Those “…but why, tho’?” questions children ask from a naturalistic perspective touch on deeper ideas than we realize.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Perception\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“This is a significant work that is an important piece of an enduring puzzle in understanding music. It is unique in the broad philosophical and historical net that it casts and seeks to unify these varied approaches with a fundamental psychoacoustic phenomenon.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jamshed J. Bharucha, Distinguished Fellow, Dartmouth College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Parncutt's book offers a fascinating set of insights into the origins, acoustic distinctions, philosophical underpinnings, and psychological impact of this most puzzling dimension of Western tonal music.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—William Forde Thompson, Professor, Bond University, Australia\u003c\/b\u003eRichard Parncutt is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz, Austria.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302613799141,"sku":"NP9780262547352","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262547352.jpg?v=1767735195","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/psychoacoustic-foundations-of-majorminor-tonality-isbn-9780262547352","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}