Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls
Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls

Author: Alan R. Harvey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0198786859

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Music is central to human cultural and intellectual experience. It is vitally important for the welfare of human society and - this book argues - should become more widely accepted in our community as a mainstream educational and therapeutic tool. This book explores the importance of music throughout human evolution, and its continued relevance to modern-day human society. Throughout, the emphasis is on the origin of music and how (and where) it is processed in our brains, exploring in detail the genetic and cultural evolution of modern, loquacious humans, how we may have evolved with unique neural and cognitive architecture, and why two complementary but distinct communication systems - language and music - remain a human universal. In addition the book explores, in some depth, the different theories that have been put forward to explain why musical communication was (and remains) advantageous to our species, with a particular emphasis on the role of music and dance in enhancing altruistic and prosocial behaviours. The author suggests that music, and the social harmonization it brings, was of vital importance in early humans as we became more and more individualized by the emergence of modern language and the modern mind, and the realization that we are mortal. Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls demonstrates the evolutionary sociobiological importance of music as a driver of cooperative and interactive behaviour throughout human existence, and what this evolutionary imperative means to twenty-first century humanity and beyond, from social and medical/neurological perspectives

A Short History of Harmony
A Short History of Harmony

Author: Charles Macpherson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0429853750

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Published in 1944, this book considers musical theory and music history to create a short but comprehensive guide to the history of harmony and thus a discourse on what we understand harmony to be in the modern era. Referencing composers such as Beethoven and his contemporaries, the book is illustrated throughout with visual aids.

The Evolution of Harmony
The Evolution of Harmony

Author: C. H. Kitson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9781333796495

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Excerpt from The Evolution of Harmony: A Treatise on the Material of Musical Composition, Its Gradual Growth and Elementary Use But if the study of harmony is to lead up to anything more than the writing of a double chant, a great many more innovations are necessary. I. The figured bass is often a formless thing. Form is to music what sense is to language. In this treatise form is discussed from the very first. It is neither presumed nor ignored. In the early work help is obtained from the analogy between metre and accent. The student begins with phrase formation, gradually building up a sentence, and finally working exercises in binary or ternary form, with regular and irregular phrase formation. Some atten tion is also paid to thematic development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

EVOLUTION OF HARMONY A TREATIS
EVOLUTION OF HARMONY A TREATIS

Author: C. H. (Charles Herbert) 1874-19 Kitson

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9781362478461

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Evolution of Harmony; a Treatise on the Material of Musical Composition, Its Gradual Growth and Elementary Use
The Evolution of Harmony; a Treatise on the Material of Musical Composition, Its Gradual Growth and Elementary Use

Author: C. H. 1874-1944 Kitson

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9781346688145

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.