Prelude. Ch. 1. What is sonic art? -- Pt. 1. The sonic continuum. Ch. 2. Beyond the pitch/duration paradigm -- Ch. 3. Pythagoras, Fourier, Helmholtz: towards a phenomenology of sound -- Ch. 4. The nature of sonic space -- Ch. 5. Sound structures in the continuum -- Ch. 6. Gesture and counterpoint -- Pt. 2. Landscape. Ch. 7. Sound landscape -- Ch. 8. Sound-image as metaphor: music and myth -- Ch. 9. Is there a natural morphology of sounds? -- Ch. 10. Spatial motion -- Pt. 3. Utterance. Ch. 11. Utterance -- Ch. 12. The human repertoire -- Ch. 13. Phonemic objects -- Ch. 14. Language stream and paralanguage -- Ch. 15. The group -- Coda. Ch. 16. Beyond the instruments: sound models
Notes
Sound disc contains many of the musical examples from the text
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-337) and index
