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Reviewed on April 1, 2018 | Arts and Humanities
Ockelford (director, Applied Music Research Ctr., Roehampton Univ., London; In the Key of Genius) asks at the beginning of his highly erudite text: How does music work "or make sense," and what does it mean? In five chapters that cover the answers in painstaking detail, the author explains how music is structured, through such devices as pitch, repetition, rhythm, inversion, and transposition. Drawing on developmental psychology, he ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More