Klarinet Archive - Posting 000977.txt from 2001/10

From: "Heinemann, Stephen" <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Yes We Have No Bananas vs. Beethoven 9
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:26:00 -0500

> Tony Pay writes:
>
> > I think that's fair. My point would only be that Dan and his
> > (fictional?) opponent just haven't between them come up with a
> > sufficiently rich theory of how music works. That's not surprising,
> > because *no-one* has come up with much of a theory about that.
>
> Stan Geidel writes:
>
> For a fascinating discourse on how music works and why we respond to it as
> we do, see:
>
> Music, the Brain & Ecstasy : How Music Captures Our Imagination
> by Robert Jourdain
>
> Using science (human biology) and psychology, Jourdain's very readable
> book
> attempts to explain why music is meaningful to us. Highly recommended.
>
I suggest _A Generative Theory of Tonal Music_ by Fred Lerdahl and Ray
Jackendoff, which attempts to deal with the same topics but filtered through
Schenkerian theory, psychology, and linguistics. (The theory of rhythm is
by itself worth the price of the book.)

Steve Heinemann
Bradley University

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Dr. Stephen Heinemann
Associate Professor of Music
Theory/Composition/Clarinet
Bradley University
Peoria, IL 61625
(309)677-2603
sjh@-----.edu
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