Towards a Model of Gravitonicity

This book develops a model of the “gravitation” in Music that is hoped to benefit practitioners, analysts, and educators from many musical backgrounds. Audio spectrum analysis is undertaken in conjunction with Chord Scale Theory (as taught at Berklee College of Music) to reveal “Gravi-Tone Series”’ (“GS’”): specific mappings of twelve “distance” values onto all twelve pitch classes. It is argued that the GS’ are attributed by a four-quality psychological process entitled “Gravi-Tone Series Filtering”.
Conceptual metaphor theory is used to reason that the “distance” is metaphorically shaped by our embodied understanding of physical distance. The construction of meaning is then extrapolated by consulting John Shepherd and Peter Wicke’s Music and Cultural Theory (1997), establishing how Gravitonicity may be negotiable for “different individuals and in the same individual at different times” (175). With a potentially unifying perspective on all types of scales, harmony, and functionality, Gravitonicity could belong to the general theory of music.