Towards the Infinite Expansion of Tonal Resources Journal Articles

abstract

• Over the whole of the historical period of instrumental music, Western music has based itself upon an acoustical lie. In our time this lie—that the normal musical ear hears twelve equal intervals within the span of an octave—has led to the impoverishment of pitch usage in our music.

authors

• Rapoport, Paul

status

• published 

publication date

• March 1983

has subject area

• 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing (FoR)

published in

• Tempo  Journal

keywords

• Arts & Humanities
• Music

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s0040298200020714

start page

• 7

end page

• 11

volume

• 144

issue

• 144