MUSIKWAHRNEHMUNG UND ELEMENTARE HOREMPFINDUNGEN. TEIL II

Between the essential features of music perception and the elementary hearing characteristics, interrelationships exist which in part prove to be surprisingly simple and clear. Such interrelationships have been found, among other things, to be of importance for the evaluation of the consequences of functional hearing disorders in the perception of music. The interrelationships applying to normally hearing persons are described, as far as they relate to the melodic and harmonic aspects of music. It is demonstrated that the sense of harmony is based on the psycho-acoustical fundamental principles of pitch perception and that the general pleasantness of sound (called sensory consonance) can be traced back to the three hearing attributes: roughness, sharpness and timbre. The interaction between harmony and pleasantness of sound results in the phenomenon of musical consonance and permits an adequate hearing-related description of many musical phenomena.