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The science of music / Robin Maconie.

by Maconie, Robin.

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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 1997.

Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music -- Acoustics and physics.

Music and science.

9780198166481 (hardcover) :

0198166486 (hardcover)

xiii, 216 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm

Intermittency -- Pitch -- Discriminations -- Consciousness -- Speech -- Doubt -- Naming Names -- Unison -- Number -- Organization -- Temperament -- Melos -- Ratio -- Instruments -- Death and Transfiguration -- Discourse -- Envoi.

Apart from providing an outlet for human emotions, does music have a use? Is a Mozart symphony intelligent, and is music a language? If so, what does it say and how does it say it? In this perceptive and revolutionary sequel to The Concept of Music, Robin Maconie teases out the musical science underlying subjects as diverse as Pythagoras's theorem, Plato's city state, mysteries of religion, myth, and folklore, theories of the mind, and key insights of Newton, Freud, and Einstein. Western civilization is based on a foundation of universal laws derived from acoustics and hearing. Music is not only the product of that civilizing process but also the key to understanding the hidden structures and rituals of established belief. Beneath the surface of mass entertainment lie musical notations, images, instruments, and ensemble interactions to be understood afresh as models and mind games in an ongoing programme of scientific discovery, information management, and social organization.

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