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Victor Zuckerkandl

Born

in Vienna, Austria

July 02, 1896

Died

April 06, 1965

Genre

Music

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Viktor was a Jewish-Austrian musicologist.

His doctorate was granted in 1927 from Vienna University, having earlier studied under Richard Robert. He conducted freelance throughout the decade of the 1920s. He was a critic for Berlin newspapers from 1927 to 1933 and taught theory and appreciation courses in Vienna from 1934 to 1938. He emigrated to the US in 1940, teaching at Wellesley College until 1942, when he took a job as a machinist in the war effort. From 1946 to 1948 he taught theory at The New School in New York, and joined the faculty at St. John's College, Annapolis in 1948. He remained at St. John's, teaching music as part of their Great Books program, until his retirement in 1964.

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	The Sense of Music 3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1967 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sound and Symbol: Music and the External World (Bollingen Series XLIV) 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1956 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sound and Symbol, Volume 2: Man the Musician (Bollingen Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zuckerlandl: Sound & Symbol V2: Man the Musician Cloth by Victor Zuckerkandl, Norbert Guterman (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sound and Symbol, Volume 1: Music and the External World (Bollingen Series) by Victor Zuckerkandl, Willard R. Trask (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experience of music and - know the music (1982) ISBN: 4276129621 [Japanese Import] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man the musician;: Sound and symbol: volume two (Bollingen series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man the Musician (Bollingen Series (General)) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SOUND AND SYMBOL. MUSIC AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD. Bollingen Series XLIV. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Strangely enough, a few people would—namely, the deaf. That deaf people are capable of enjoying music seems, at first thought, a nonsensical assertion. Yet the fact has been established beyond any doubt. The musical enjoyment of the deaf person can have only one source: an unusually highly developed sensitivity to vibration, which permits him to feel air vibrations as such. We know, from the results of other investigations, that it is possible to translate tone sensations into sensations of vibrations. If we lightly touch vibrating tuning forks, we not only feel difference in tone as difference in vibration; we also feel, from the relation between the vibrations, whether two tones are more or less in harmony with each other—exactly as”
― Victor Zuckerkandl, Sound and Symbol, Volume 1: Music and the External World

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