Sense of Music

by Zuckerkandl, Victor

• ISBN13: 9780691027005
• ISBN10: 0691027005
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1967-11-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

This book is addressed to the listener whose enjoyment of music is filled with questions and whose curiosity makes him eager to grasp the sense of music, despite a lack of theoretical training. Unlike the usual listener's guide, which begins with a discussion of the elementary materials of music, this book starts with the elementary experiences of listening.

Author Biography

Victor Zuckerkandl (1896-1965), born in Vienna, came to the United States in 1940 and taught at Wellesley College, The New School, and St. John's College in Annapolis

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. 3
Melody	p. 11
Tone and Pitch	p. 13
Selection of Tones	p. 16
Dynamic Quality	p. 18
1 2 3 4 5	p. 20
The Oscilloscope	p. 21
The Octave	p. 23
The Scale	p. 25
Whole and Half Tones	p. 28
The Diatonic Order. The Modes	p. 30
Minor	p. 34
Declaring the Center	p. 36
The Making of Melody	p. 38
Background and Foreground	p. 40
The Center Moves	p. 44
Sharps and Flats	p. 48
Key and Signature	p. 51
Tonality	p. 52
Key Relations	p. 56
Three Types of Chromatic Tones	p. 60
Move of Center Without Chromatic Tones	p. 62
Intervals	p. 64
Tone and Number	p. 67
Acoustics--Greek and Modern	p. 70
The Irreconcilables	p. 73
Equal Temperament	p. 75
Meanings of Intervals	p. 77
Texture and Structure	p. 80
Arrow and Circle	p. 83
A-B-A	p. 85
A-B-A-B-A	p. 88
Fast-Slow-Fast	p. 90
Repetition without Symmetry	p. 92
Other Chain Forms	p. 94
Circle and Chain Combined	p. 96
Meter and Rhythm	p. 98
The Beat	p. 99
The Bar	p. 104
The Forming of Groups	p. 108
The Time Wave	p. 114
The Interplay of Tone and Time	p. 119
Phrase	p. 130
Polyphony	p. 137
The Second Dimension	p. 139
Individuality of Parts	p. 141
Infinite Motion	p. 144
Haydn's Emperor Quartet, 2nd Movement	p. 147
A Lesson in Polyphony	p. 150
Consonance and Dissonance	p. 151
The Control of the Dissonance	p. 154
Consonance without Rest	p. 163
J. S. Bach, Two-part Invention, No. 1, in C Major	p. 165
Two-part in D Major	p. 168
Two-part in F Major	p. 168
Two-part in F Minor	p. 169
Three-part in C Major	p. 169
Three-part in G Minor	p. 170
Harmony	p. 171
The Chord	p. 173
Triads, Seventh Chords, Deviations	p. 179
Unfolding of Chords	p. 184
Harmonic Degrees	p. 186
The Scale of Harmonic Degrees	p. 191
The Dominant Chord	p. 195
The I ... V-I	p. 200
Functional Levels	p. 203
Change of Center	p. 205
The New Image of Tonality	p. 211
Melody and Harmony	p. 218
Harmony Interprets Melody	p. 222
Non-harmonic Tones	p. 234
Epilogue	p. 243
Index	p. 247
Section of Scores	p. 1
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