The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music

Music theory and chromatic notation (or, to Bb or not to Bb but to be Cbb)

“…Between the years 1817 to 1821, Gottfried Weber published the three volumes of his Versuch einer geordneten Theorie der Tonsetzkunst, 12 one of the first important treatises on the harmonic prac tices of what is often referred to as the Common Period, approximate ly spanning a period from 1650 to 1800. However, these were also the years during which Mean-tone tuning prevailed and it would thus be correct to assume that the harmonic practice as well as its theory would be within the framework of Mean-tone tuning, and allows for the difference between what is regarded today as enharmonically equivalent notes.…”

Generation of Variations on Theme Music Based on Impressions of Story ScenesConsidering Human′s Feeling of Music and Stories

“…Let impressions of P i evaluated by a subject be where a i1 and b i1 , a i2 and b i2 , a i3 and b i3 , and a i4 and b i4 are evaluation values of "violent-calm," "heavy-light," "clearmuddy," and "sad-happy," respectively. These variables have integer values in [1,7] evaluated by a subject. In this experiment, cosine correlations [14] between I Si and I Pi are used for the evaluation whether the generated variations are reflecting subject's feelings for music and stories or not.…”

“…When a subject is satisfied with one of outputted variations, go to (7). When a subject is not satisfied with any variations, go to (3).…”

“…In this paper, the transformation of theme music is defined as follows. Tunes, tones, musical performances, rhythms, tempos are varied according to story scenes [7].…”

Et aspekt af musikkens struktur

“…I musik er perceptionsmåden lytning, og en hjørnesten i glaeden ved at lytte er det melodiske (tematiske) materiale i et givet stykke (1,9). Da dette tematiske materiale høres bevidst af lytteren og danner en klart afgraenset auditiv konfiguration, må det relateres til sekundaerprocestaenkning.…”