The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music

[Dover]

Available now online:
http://khaldea.com/rudhyar/mt/


Contents

Preface

1. Communication: Man's Primordial Need

2. Sound as Carrier-Wave for Tone

3. The Magical and the Sacred

4. Number and the Quantification of Tone Relationship

5. The Spatialization of the Tone-Experience: Musical Notation and Form

6. Descending and Ascending Musical Progressions

7. The Harmonic Series

8. The Septenary Tone Cycle and the Psychoactive Modes issued from Its Fundamentals

9. The European Spirit in Music: Pluralism, Tonality and Equal Temperament

10. Music in Transformation: Avant-garde Music and the Deconditioning Process

11. Dissonant Harmony, Pleromas of Sound, and the Principle of Holistic Resonance

12. The Rhythms of Civilization and Culture

APPENDIX I.
The Pythagorean and Chinese Approaches to Music

APPENDIX II.
Notes on the Music of India

APPENDIX III.
The Origin and Early Development of the European Approach to Music

APPENDIX IV.
Concerning My Musical Works