Sound and symbol : Vol. 1 - Music and the external world / Victor Zuckerkandl; Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask.

Volume 1 of 2. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-385)

Tone. 1 The dynamic quality of tone. -- 2 The pulse theory. -- 3 The system of tones. -- 4 Associationism. -- 5 The three components of sense perception. -- 6 The dynamic symbol. Motion. -- 7 The paradox of tonal motion. -- 8 The true motion of tones. -- 9 The continuity of tonal motion. -- 10 The "Third Stage". Time. -- 11 Meter and rhythm. -- 12 The musical concept of time. -- 13 Tone as the image of time. Space. -- 14 The "nonspatial" art. -- 15 Is space audible?. -- 16 The placeless, flowing space of tones. -- 17 The order of auditory space. -- 18 Space as place and space as force. -- 19 A last word on high and low in tones. -- 20 Summary and prospect

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