Sound and Symbol, Volume 1: Music and the External World

by Victor Zuckerkandl, Willard R. Trask

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691017594
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	10/21/1969
Series:	Bollingen Series , #35
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	407
Sales rank:	531,303
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

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