Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music

Harmony Explained: Progress Towards A Scientific Theory of Music
by Daniel Shawcross Wilkerson

Publisher: arXiv 2012

Description:
How does music, in particular harmony, actually work, presented as a real, scientific theory of music? In particular we derive from first principles of Physics and Computation the following three fundamental phenomena of music: the Major Scale, the Standard Chord Dictionary, and the difference in feeling between the Major and Minor Triads.