Relevant literature on Mathematical and neurological theories for functional harmony?
I知 interested in finding out what are the current proposed theories surrounding the expectation + release behaviour of functional harmony.
From what I reckon, functional harmony seems to be a human construct but one that we致e learnt to anticipate and thus eventually enjoy but I壇 like to know if there痴 something deeper to it than just that?
P.S I知 not asking about the scientific basis of consonance. I am more interested in knowing why voicing, inversions and dominant - tonic relationships work.
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I know you don't what a scientific explanation, but it is a scientific topic and is not culturally constructed. The science dealing with this is called psychoacoustics. While scales can have different cultural meanings, consonance and dissonance, and thus harmony are the product of how cilia in the ear vibrate at different harmonic intervals. The resolution of dissonance to a consonance can be explained psychoacoustically. In the West, the main way functional harmony has changed in culture is it becoming more free, especially with the use of dissonance and means of resolution. The reason other cultures do not always have this is that polyphony is rare in folk music容xamples are in Pygmy and Georgian folk music.
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