A New Theory of Music: Correspondences of Language, Emotion, and Sound

»For as long as I can remember, I've regarded an adequate theory of music, language of the emotions, as the Holy Grail of musicology. My feeling only grew stronger as the years went by and no such theory appeared. So I decided to tackle the job myself. The book in your hand represents twelve years of research into the topic of music as a language.« Dr. Jonathan Petty looks into the nature of music and musicology to reconsider the way that humanity looks at music and all the elements that go into music. "This model has implications for music, language of emotions. For the psychological content reflected in the MNS and regulated by SES is emotion - primarily the feeling of personal safety in the presence of others, and secondarily, the eudaimonic or positive feelings made possible by such safety. The musical dimension of this maybe intuited when we consider the musical cadence - the 'descent to the tonic' - as a decisive feeling of arriving safely home, 'there's no place like home.' Music's ability to qualify feelings of mild apprehension - i.e. 'dissonance' - may well understood as maneuvers to heighten feelings of stability ('consonance') and homecoming ('tonic'), the essential feelings of personal belonging upon all other eudiamonic feelings are built." (From the Introduction) Resized version of much oversized https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D709DA80780AFA9AA09BF7A294E5317C