On the Sensations of Tone (1863)
Brief summary:
Based on the research methods of contemporary physics and physiology
1st scientifically modern treatment of musical acoustics and physiology
Relationships among pitches, but not among pitch classes
Cannot form the basis of a traditional, musically practical harmonic theory since the crucial theoretical assumption of a timbre-indifferent pitch-class space is missing
A greater contribution to the theory of orchestration than it can be to the theory of harmony (Oettingen)
Either recycled ideologically congenial material from previous authors or marshaled his scientific data with admirable integrity to advance ideas that happened to strike at the heart of received theoretical opinion
Helmholtz believes that consonance and dissonance are relative, not absolute
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Digest of Daniel Harrison's Harmonic Function in Chromatic Music: A Renewed Dualist Theory and an Account of Its Precedents.
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