Overtone Series Research Articles

Exploring the Sensitivity to Structure in Music

Exploring the Sensitivity to Structure in Music. Un article de la revue Canadian University Music Review / Revue de musique des universités canadiennes (Numéro 3, 1982, p. 1-234) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Musical Syntax in the Middle Ages: Background to an Aesthetic Problem

In 1910 Heinrich Schenker sang this elegy: We are witnessing a Herculanum and Pompeii for music. Ravaged is musical culture, destroyed is the very tone material, that foundation of music which the artists themselves have fashioned, unfettered by the limitations of the overtone series. The most dream-like and artful of the arts, that which suffered the greatest birth pains and which was granted us last of all, the youngest of all the arts, Music, is no more.l