How We Hear Music: The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism

Covers much of the acoustics a student needs, without mathematics or scientific background.

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A survey of intervals and scales, tone pitch, loudness and time in Western music raises many questions about the hearing mechanism and throws doubt on the conventional role of harmonics. James Beament's account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear and the brain's processing units, provides answers to most of these questions. It concludes that music started with...