Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Equal Temperament, Tonality, Art Music
6 Feb 2013
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Mode and harmony i vocabulary used for second assignment about harmony don"t use for assignment one. The scruton reading is rather dense this week. If you had to boil it down to a single message, what do you think he wants the reader to know about the concept of tonality? tonality what we think of as tonality is not a fixed concept. Central metaphor for describing our experience of music. Tonality is not merely a fixation of one tone focusses on many different organizational factors. Things are related to a central tone. Octave and fifth are generally agreed upon middle has been culturally conditioned upon. *the tonic is something that the other notes lean towards. Wave lengths of dissonant sounds make our ear hear it in an unsatisfactory way. Octaves are heard as equivalent (closure may come at any octave) Scale ascending pattern of organized tones, tuned using equal temperament that eventually descend in a patter.
