Abstract
THE object of this little pamphlet is one with which musical students are tolerably familiar. The author complains that the science of acoustics, although now well advanced, is unable to explain the actual structure of musical compositions, or to account for their effect on the mind. Many writers have made the same complaint, and have endeavoured, each according to his own fancy, to “account for” everything by some particular system of his own.
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"Musiconomia: Leggi Fundamentali della Scienza Musicale." By Dr. Primo Crotti, Professor of the History of Music in the Royal Conservatory of Parma. (Parma, 1890.)
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Musical Science1. Nature 42, 259–260 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042259a0
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