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THE MAGIC OF TONE and the Art of Music
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In my opinion, the most profound book about music available.
[CMC]
This long- awaited title, out-of- print since 1987, The Magic of
Toneis now available free online at the Rudhyar Archival
Project.
The Magic of Tonecomprises Rudhyar's last word (written in
1982, three years before his passing) on Sound, Tone, Music
and the Rhythm of Civilization and Culture
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"...Our Western music is essentially a music of notes. Oriental
music or archaic, primordial music —magical music — was
essentially a music of tones. In our Western music notes are
the edge of intervals..."
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"...The more developed his power of relating apparently
heterogeneous elements, the smaller the field of discords for
any particular hearer. This power increases by mere habit to
a considerable degree. We shall refer to it subsequently as
that of identifying opposites; metaphysically it is the power of
relating spirit to matter, the essential characteristic of the
truly human Soul..."
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