"A leading music psychologist and theorist explains how Major-Minor Tonality came to assume its dominant place within music composition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do. Despite the cultural diversity of our globalized world, most Western music is still structured around major and minor scales and chords. Countless thinkers and scientists of the past have struggled to explain the nature and origin of musical structures. In…