The Concept of Music

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Communication
The pleasure of hearing
Looking and listening
Sound vibrations
Attraction
Sounds like reality
Orchestra
Time
Space
Belief systems
Scales
Melody, harmony, tonality
Notation
Ornamentation
Instruments
Sharps and flats
Enclosures
Palladio
Dissonance
Applause
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What is music for? How does it work? What does it represent? What does it mean? In this brilliant and thought-provoking book which is now available in paperback, Robin Maconie examines these fundamental questions matching musical tradition and scientific knowledge to produce answers which are often unexpected, frequently inspired, and invariably illuminating. Drawing on a wealth of evidence from the history of ideas, literature, and the arts, to classical physics and computer science, he argues with passion and humour for a fundamental reapprasial of music, not as mere entertainment, but as a medium of significant thought whose influence on the development of Western society has been profound.

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Enormously well-informed about the practical realities of acoustics, the physics of sound, the history and architecture of music rooms, the design of instruments

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