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Quantifying Music
H.F. Cohen
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Description for Quantifying Music
Hardback. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 642.
The soul rejoices in perceiving harmonious sound; when the sound is not harmonious it is grieved. From these affects of the soul are derived the name of consonances for the harmonic proportions, and the name of dissonances for the unharmonic proportions. When to this is added the other harmonie proportion whieh consists of the longer or shorter duration of musical sound, then the soul stirs the body to jumping dance, the tongue to inspired speech, according to the same laws. The artisans accommodate to these harmonies the blows of their hammers, the soldiers their pace. As long as the harmonies ... Read more
The soul rejoices in perceiving harmonious sound; when the sound is not harmonious it is grieved. From these affects of the soul are derived the name of consonances for the harmonic proportions, and the name of dissonances for the unharmonic proportions. When to this is added the other harmonie proportion whieh consists of the longer or shorter duration of musical sound, then the soul stirs the body to jumping dance, the tongue to inspired speech, according to the same laws. The artisans accommodate to these harmonies the blows of their hammers, the soldiers their pace. As long as the harmonies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027716378
SKU
V9789027716378
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Reviews for Quantifying Music
`Quantifying Music appears to represent a high level of scholarship. THe author used entirely original sources and there are 35 pages of dense bibliographical notes in seven languages plus archaic versions thereof.' Journal of the Acousticsl Society of America (1986)