Musical Beliefs: Psychoacoustic, Mythical, and Educational Perspectives
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In this book, the author argues that what constitutes music in various societies is culturally based, not the result of some universal aspect of human physical and psychological make-up. This is true not only in non-Western music cultures, but in the West as well. Contrary to popular belief among musicians and the general public, the basis of Western music and acoustics is not scientific, but superstitious. Pythagorean mathematics as it relates to harmonics does not work, a fact that mathematicians and scientists have known for years and this has important implications, for it means that Western musical aesthetics and educational programmes in music are not rooted in the laws of physics, as is often maintained, but in a belief system that is an arbitrary product of human imagination.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807730084
ISBN13:9780807730089
Release Date:January 1990
Publisher:Teachers College Press
Length:253 Pages
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