A Geometry of Music
Most listeners prefer tonal music to atonal music, but what exactly is the difference between them? In this book, I identify five basic musical features that jointly contribute to the sense of tonality, show how these features constrain each other, and trace their interactions throughout the history of Western music.
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Beat Therapy
Beat Therapy (2005-9) is a fusion of jazz, funk, and classical music. It sounds like jazz, unless you listen closely, at which point you realize that it grows and develops more like classical music. There is some improvisation on almost every track.
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Dmitri Tymoczko Biography
I am a composer and music theorist who teaches at
Princeton University. I have written one book (A Geometry of Music,
Oxford Univeristy Press, 2011) and one CD (Beat Therapy, Bridge
Records, 2011). Both as composer and theorist, I am
interested in a wide range of musical styles.
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor (2009) is a mashup of songs and poems from World War I, juxtaposed with the recorded voice of an American soldier recalling the 2004 siege of Fallujah.
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