Healing Heritage Paul Nordoff Exploring The Tonal Language Of Music

complete transcripts of the famous 1974 lectures by paul nordoff the late composer pianist who with clive robbins pioneered creative music therapy dr nordoff dialogues with his students about the expressive dynamics of each tonal and rhythmic component of music and through musical examples from various composers throughout history demonstrates their therapeutic significance 1998 240 pages paperback table of contents foreword acknowledgments introduction a short biography of paul nordoff the setting of the course the students the relevance of these explorations to other client groups preparing the text on the typography the recordings a concluding perspective exploration one scales steps and skips the dynamic properties of scales scale passages and skips in melodic construction the scale as a musical statement dynamics of scalar movement stepwise movement in the bass exploration two steps skips and creative leaps exploring inherent tonal directions from the tonic upward from the second scale tone from the third scale tone including the fourth scale tone including the fifth and higher tones inherent directions and creative leaps completing melodic phrases enlivening the melodic role of the dominant the need for creative leaps editor s note exploration three tonal directions and creative leaps in polyphony and homophony directions of tones reviewed tonal directions and creative leaps in bach fugue subjects homophony the influences of harmony upon tonal directions a principle of counterpoint disregarded tonal directions in harmonic writing editor s note exploration four the life of the intervals zuckerkandl s imaginative thinking about music experiencing intervals steiner s interval concept the character of the octave practicing experiencing intervals becoming aware of the life of the intervals in a composition editor s note exploration five the interval concept and the potential in the single tone the interval concept and its application to therapy the potential of the