Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music

By Robert Cogan

"fields can interrelate with other fields as lines do with other lines" This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0138227268
• ISBN13: 9780138227265
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

sonic design: undiscovered wisdom

for the theorist and the composer and the interested amateur, sonic design is an invaluable resource for thinking and practicing music of any culture. it illustrates numerous ways of thinking about music in non-academian terms-anyone with a penchant for philosophy and numbers is more than welcome, including those who are sceptical of music's dynamic geometrys- they are terms that are simple yet profound. this WILL illuminate anyone who seeks a new way of hearing music, even those difficult to enjoy modernist composers. sonic design lays out basic materials common to all music and then extrapolates the particulars of a given era or geographical location. this is a must read for musicians and those who want to understand the challenges involved with listening to and creating music.