The Structure of Music: A Series of Articles Demonstrating in an Accurate, Though Popular, Manner the Origin and Employment of the Fundamental Factors of Music Structure and Composition, for the Student and General Music Lover

by Percy Goetschius

This series of articles, which appeared originally in The Etude Music Magazine from September 1932 to September 1933, is designed for the music lover at large, who will find therein much fascinating and valuable information concerning the factors of musical structure, presented in a simple, intimate diction not disdaining homely metaphor.

They are addressed also, however, to the professional musician as well as to the earnest student, who is so often told simply to "do this" or "not to do that," without being supplied with the comforting reasons for these instructions and prohibitions. The author's aim has been (possibly for the first time in the history of music) to place every item of theoretical knowledge upon an unassailable scientific basis, replacing complacent tradition and vague theories with facts and furnishing the student with those "reasons" in order to afford an answer to the intuitive and insistent "Why?"

Genres: Music

170 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1934