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Sound and Symbol, Volume 1

Music and the External World

By: Victor Zuckerkandl, Willard R. Trask (Translator)

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Paperback | 2 January 1970

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An approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Music Theory of Music & Musicology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies General Studies History of Art & Design Styles Music Styles & Genres Western Classical Music & Opera Medieval & Renaissance Music from 1000 to 1600 Early Music up to the Year 1000

Classical Music from 1750 to 1830 Baroque Music from 1600 to 1750 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music Romantic Music from 1830 to 1900

Foreword	p. 1
Tone
The Dynamic Quality of Tone	p. 11
The Pulse Theory	p. 25
The System of Tones	p. 32
Associationism	p. 41
The Three Components of Sense Perception	p. 53
The Dynamic Symbol	p. 64
Motion
Prefatory Note	p. 74
The Paradox of Tonal Motion	p. 75
The True Motion of Tones	p. 88
Interval	p. 89
Scale	p. 95
Harmonic Cadence	p. 104
The Continuity of Tonal Motion	p. 117
Philosophical Considerations	p. 123
Psychological Considerations	p. 129
Musical Considerations	p. 136
The "Third Stage"	p. 142
Time
Meter and Rhythm	p. 151
The Temporal Component of Music	p. 157
Musical Meter	p. 160
The Dynamic Quality of Meter	p. 169
Polarity and Intensification	p. 174
Clash with Philosophy	p. 180
Projectionism	p. 185
Rhythm as Experience of Time	p. 197
The Musical Concept of Time	p. 201
Experienced Time	p. 202
Time Producing Events	p. 203
Time Knows No Equality of Parts	p. 208
Digression I: Repetition in Music	p. 212
Time Knows Nothing of Transience	p. 223
Digression II: Temporal Gestalt	p. 228
Are There Two Times?	p. 242
Tone as the Image of Time	p. 248
Space
The "Nonspatial" Art	p. 267
Is Space Audible?	p. 271
The Placeless, Flowing Space of Tones	p. 282
The Order of Auditory Space	p. 293
Triad	p. 295
Scale	p. 308
Octave	p. 321
Ensemble	p. 330
Space as Place and Space as Force	p. 336
A Last Word on High and Low in Tones	p. 349
Summary and Prospect	p. 363
List of Works Cited	p. 379
Index	p. 387
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