Harmonic experience: tonal harmony from its natural origins to its modern expression

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"Harmonic Experience opens the door to a genuine renewal of music's fundamental structure. At once an experience of discipline and freedom, it makes the ear aware of the finest subtleties of tuning at the core of harmony and does this in a way that clarifies the perception of our culture's music while inviting the crossing of cultural boundaries."—(Ben Johnston, composer) "Harmonic Experience is the Rosetta stone of music. It turns harmonic theory into a web of ah hah's! What has been a tangle of inexplicable concepts is transformed into a repertory of generative experiences. Mathieu puts together what no one has put together before."—(Will Johnson, professor of music, Sonoma State University) "This book is an epic investigation into the hierarchy of musical tendencies of just intonation and how these make equal temperament function the way it does. Everybody has been shaking their heads about the relationship between the two systems, but Harmonic Experience clears...