Systemic Abstractions: The Imaginary Regime

Martin Knakkergaard

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460242.013.61

Systemic Abstractions: The Imaginary Regime

Martin Knakkergaard

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The chapter concentrates on the development of a system designed to constrain the pitch interval in western music. Western tuning systems, according to Knakkergaard, developed out of the Ancient Greek's mystical fascination with the number 4. Thus, the Ancient Greek's beliefs and imaginations are very much alive today in a musical system that both regulates and guides compositional imagination, and this remains the case even with the apparent freedom offered music by digitalization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination
Editors	Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, Martin Knakkergaard
Volume	2
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2019
ISBN (Electronic)	9780190460242
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460242.013.61
Publication status	Published - 2019

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diatonism
tuning

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