Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony
Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony

Author: Robert W. Wason

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1580465757

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The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900.

A Geometry of Music
A Geometry of Music

Author: Dmitri Tymoczko

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0195336674

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In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes the commonalities among styles from Medieval polyphony to contemporary jazz.

Harmony of the Spirits
Harmony of the Spirits

Author: Patrick Michael Erben

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0807835579

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Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

Harmonic Experience
Harmonic Experience

Author: W. A. Mathieu

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1997-08-01

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 1620554011

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An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished author and recording artist, presents a way of learning music that reconnects modern-day musicians with the source from which music was originally generated. As the author states, "The rules of music--including counterpoint and harmony--were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies." His theory of music reconciles the ancient harmonic system of just intonation with the modern system of twelve-tone temperament. Saying that the way we think music is far from the way we do music, Mathieu explains why certain combinations of sounds are experienced by the listener as harmonious. His prose often resembles the rhythms and cadences of music itself, and his many musical examples allow readers to discover their own musical responses.