Expanding Tonal Awareness: A Musical Exploration of the Evolution of Consciousness Guided by the MonochordThis book charts a practical path toward a deepened musical understanding. It illuminates the panorama of humanity's musical past and suggests what may happen -- and what needs to happen -- to music in the immediate and more distant future. The implications of this book for composition, musical education, and therapy are immense. |
Contents
Musical tone | 1 |
IV | 7 |
VII | 15 |
XIII | 28 |
XV | 35 |
XVIII | 42 |
XXI | 49 |
seventh sixth fifth fourth third | 56 |
The system of sevenths Atlantis and Ancient India | 64 |
XXX | 81 |
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alphorn Apollonian Arabic archetypal arithmetic series artistic ascending atonal aulos aulos scale Bartók become century chain of fifths chord circle of fifths circle of twelve cosmic culture cycle cyclic system descending diatonic Dionysian divine earthly embodied epoch experienced expression feeling forces Greek halftones harmonic series hear hybrid third inner musical instruments interval intonation Kali Yuga keys leading-tone Madenda major and minor melody minor triad modern monochord musical consciousness musical development musical experience musical tone mysteries natural seventh octave oneself outer world overtone series pentatonic Persian scale Pfrogner physical sound post-Atlantean prime number pure fifths pure fourth pure third Pythagorean quartertone radial principle realm relationship Rudolf Steiner scale of seconds scale with pure sense sequence Slendro sphere spiritual stream string length structure subdominant system of fifths tempered tetrachord tion tonal tone system tonic transformed Translator's note tuning twelvetone music undertone series wholetone