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How We Hear Music
The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism
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by James Beament
Boydell & Brewer
Due/Published
April 2003, 188 pages,
paper
ISBN
0851159400
By surveying what it selected as western music, this book covers much of the acoustics a student needs, without mathematics or scientific background. It raises many questions about intervals, scales, tone, pitch, loudness and time, and throws doubt on the role conventionally ascribed to harmonics; an account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear and the brain's processing units, provides answers to most of the questions. It concludes that music started with simple instruments which voices imitated, and that the need to know sound direction determined the characteristics of hearing. |
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