Re: [LAU] [ot]: literature on arrangment/composition

To really understand the process of being affected by music, I recommend this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology Some of the illustrations there are very educational; the same processes all apply to auditory stimuli, and are key to understanding the experience of expectation, surprise, familiarity, resolution, etc. in people listening to music. Or google "law of pragnanz" or "gestalt perception". I also highly recommend Harry Partch's 'Genesis of a Music', which will explain to you the significance of all of the intervals in modern music. It's impossible to really understand what you're doing without some idea of why different intervals have different effects, different levels of consonance, etc. There are some fragmented resources online, if you search for "musical interval", "frequency ratio", "just intonation", or some combination of those things. Just knowing B flat, F sharp, D sharp, etc. doesn't help you understand much. If you like, you can then apply this knowledge to the ABC's and treble clef stuff, but learning that system alone doesn't tell you much about what's really happening. Most "music theory" books and classes focus on the vocabulary, rather than the theory. -Chuckk On 10/19/07, Julien Claassen <julien(a)c-lab.de> wrote: -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com