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Musical Proportion

Musical Proportion is a theoretical construct in the philosophy of music that identifies the aesthetically significant relationships among musical elements—such as duration, pitch, rhythm, and form—according to quantitative and qualitative balance, thereby serving as a determinant of perceived beauty in musical composition.

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Proportion in the Music of Dunstable

Brian Trowell · Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association · 1978 · 101 citations

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Harmonic Proportion and Palladio's "Quattro Libri"

Deborah Howard, Malcolm Longair · Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians · 1982 · 78 citations

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A Psychocultural Theory of Musical Interval

Richard Parncutt, Graham Hair · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2018 · 44 citations

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Various Attempts to Establish a Basic Form of Beauty: Experimental Aesthetics, Golden Section, and Square

Gustav Theodor Fechner, Holger Höge · Empirical Studies of the Arts · 1997 · 44 citations

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SOME REFLECTION UPON NOTATION AND PROPORTION IN MONTEVERDI'S MASS AND VESPERS OF 1610

Roger Bowers · Music and Letters · 1992 · 39 citations

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Authors

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  1. RI
    Ruth I. DeFord

    Hunter College, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  2. GT
    Gustav Theodor Fechner

    Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

    1 publications · 44 citations

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  3. RP
    Richard Parncutt

    University of Graz, Austria

    1 publications · 44 citations

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  4. NC
    Norman Cazden

    University of Maine, United States

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. RB
    Roger Bowers

    Jesus University, South Korea

    1 publications · 39 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Graz

    Graz, Austria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    44 citations

  2. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    44 citations

  3. Manchester Metropolitan University

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    44 citations

  4. Leipzig University

    Leipzig, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

  5. St. John's College of Nursing

    Springfield, United States

    1 publications

    10 citations

  6. Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance

    Tours, France

    1 publications

    12 citations

  7. Université de Bourgogne

    Dijon, France

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Research in Music Education

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  2. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

    JSAH · 1 publications · 78 citations

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  3. Music and Letters

    1 publications · 39 citations

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  4. The Musical Quarterly

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  5. Empirical Studies of the Arts

    1 publications · 44 citations

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