MINOR APPLIED AESTHETICS® GLOSSARY

MINI APPLIED AESTHETICS® GLOSSARY
FOR THE SCHOLARSHIP TEST

* Index
* APPLIED AESTHETICS
* APPLIED AESTHETICS SYMBOL
* EXACT MUSIC THEORY
* GRADUAL GAMUT
* MUSIC
* MUSIC THEORY
* REFERENCE TONE
* SYMMETRY
* TASTE

# APPLIED_AESTHETICS -- -- Index

1. Applied Aesthetics is determination and study of those things
that arise as certainties or laws out of the observation of Art
works and their structural material one uses to make Art with. (Exact Music
Theory is based on these and it is an integral part of Applied
Aesthetics.) It includes advanced material and tools for use in
appreciating, learning, studying, practicing, performing, composing,
arranging, improvising and creating Music. 2. Applied Aesthetics
would cover Temperament, Tonality, Gradual Gamuts Tonal and
Harmonic, and the subject of Consonance and Dissonance. 3. Applied
Aesthetics is limited only to examination, observation, consideration,
testing, conclusions and formation of Theory on the nature of existing
known and yet to exist potential Music preferences, plus the
formation of any observed laws governing these but does not
include any study of individual Taste. 4. Applied Aesthetics is
not Musicology. It is the product of a 25 years research project
in the field of Music, Human Hearing and Acoustics that led to a
bulk of new major discoveries and breakthroughs about Music,
codifying it into a set of uniformly applicable axioms regardless
of Music form or genre that are founded on natural law, and to an
Exact Music Theory.

# APPLIED_AESTHETICS_SYMBOL -- -- Index & Glossary Instructions

The Applied Aesthetics symbol consists of the original form of the first
letter of the Ancient Greek Alphabet: a white Alpha that symbolizes
Aesthetics, and its reflection on blue that represents a lake mirroring
it, which symbolizes symmetry and the fact all basic Music elements
either in a way heavily relate to, or even stem from symmetry.

# EXACT MUSIC THEORY -- -- Index

1. Exact Music Theory is Music Theory that is precisely defined, term
for term, concept for concept, everything is put in order presented as
an advance from simple to composite, not complex. There are absolutely
no complexities in Exact Music Theory, care was taken for anything
complex to be gotten out of the way. 2. Music Theory is not "canceled"
or discredited by Exact Music Theory, as the later demonstrates the
validity of a great part of its rules as founded by natural law. Many
brilliant Theoreticians of the past provided us each with valuable "pieces
of the puzzle" and without their work our Exact Music Theory as a subject
that stands some trillion light years more advanced than old Music Theory,
would have never been accomplished. 3. It is that lower part of Applied
Aesthetics which investigates the whys of formulated rules and laws of
things discovered in the past and states them clearly on subjects like
Music Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue and Improvisation.

# GRADUAL_GAMUT -- -- Index

1. The use of the concept of a tone's certain property and its relation
towards a Reference Tone, with the purpose of arranging all tones in an
order of tones presenting a gradual increase of this property in each tone
contained in it, implemented to determine Tonality, the Consonance or
Dissonance degree of a Chord, Interval, Scale or Melody tone, against the
whole of a composition, or the close or distant character of a Modulation
in one, etc. 2. A Gradual Gamut is series of Tones indicating a gradual increase
of a certain property of an associative nature among Music Tones and each
tone in it, in relation to a Reference Tone round which the gradual gamut
is built. Gradual Gamuts of Tones are the main means of determining
various types of order among music tones.

# MUSIC -- -- Index

1. A universal language expressing emotions 2. Music is that Art expressed
through sound. 3. Music regarding structure is arrangements of tones
through the consideration and employment of various types of order
regarding their Duration, Pitch, Volume and Color. 4. Music is based on
our subjective impression of sound and exists according to logarithmic
peculiarities of function of the ear, rather than, as a perception based
on an unaltered or accurate or linear registering of sounds as they exist
in nature.

# MUSIC THEORY --- -- Index

Music Theory was a forefather of Exact Music Theory. Music
Theory as found in the bulk of relevant books, is usually a
mere collection of rules given without an in depth explanation,
but simply as a record of the thing that is generally and commonly
practiced in some specific Music genre or style. "That is what is
generally and commonly practiced" was the best type of explanation
given in it because most of the types of explanations attempted in
Music Theory were usually based on more theory, rather than proofs
or observation. Most often the student was told or was led to
believe that the reasons the rules were so were "self-evident" or
"obvious" with almost never being instructed >where< to look for such
evidence.

# REFERENCE_TONE ---- -- Index

1. The TONE round which a Gradual Gamut is built. You could also build
one round a chord, in that case that would be a "Reference Chord."
2. The tone on which a Gradual Gamut is applied in actual practice. Many
different Gradual Gamuts can be applied to the same Reference Tone. You
could even apply a Gradual Gamut built on one Tone to another in any
combination. That would be a Structural Reference Tone imposed on an
Application Reference Tone. Each Music genre seems very selective and
persistent about the way this is done to the final effect that this is
exactly what characterizes the genre.

# SYMMETRY --- -- Index

This almost forgotten and abandoned Art called Symmetry meant for Ancient
Greeks more than placing to the left something similar with whatever has
been placed to the right. Symmetry meant by actual words contained: "The
Art of Analogies"-- SYN ("with, plus") and, METRON ("meter, numeration,
canon" (and canon means also "law".) The idea was a pursuit of certain
analogies in Architecture that would cause certain impressions.

# TASTE --- -- Index

It is the nature and quality of an individual's preferences and a factor
regulating and above any preferences an individual might be manifesting.
Taste can in an apparently random and unlimited way vary from individual
to individual and within the same individual.

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