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184 pages (1 illustration of an ancient city dotted with groups of conversing people [source unknown], 11 handwritten notes [possibly corrections], 172 manuscript), typed with handwritten annotations in pencil, red pencil or crayon.
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Zuckerkandl presents music theory to non-professionals, focusing on relating listening experience to concepts from music theory. In the first half of this book, Zuckerkandl describes the behaviour of pitches within the diatonic system, explains major/minor modality, explores intervals, shows the construction of tertian chords, and introduces the relationship between rhythm, meter, and pitch. Zuckerkandl then builds on this foundation in the second half of the book, discussing ornamental tones and Schenkerian concepts such as "the fundamental line" and foreground, middleground, and background layers.
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- German
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St. John's, Box 2, Folder 2