ISBN online: 978-80-7331-712-6 | DOI: 10.62804/978-80-7331-712-6

Harmonicky myslet a slyšet

Vladimír Tichý

Music is a kind of Language. Its "dictionary" is given by sounds and sound formations. Its "grammar" is then given by the relationships between them. It is impossible to imagine communication in the "language of sounds" without hearing. The world of sounds has its exact laws, given by their physical and therefore mathematically formulatable nature. Some think harmoniously, but do not hear. Others hear harmoniously, but do not think. Many do not think or hear harmoniously, they only learn lessons, which is the worst option. Our goal is to learn to think and hear harmoniously.
Why is it necessary to hear harmoniously?
Music is a kind of language. Its "dictionary" is given by sounds and sound formations. Its "grammar" is then given by the relationships between them. It is impossible to imagine communication in the "language of sounds" without hearing.
Developing musical, and therefore harmonic abilities and skills means developing hearing, hearing. The ability to hear means for us the ability to grasp sound as a material with which we want to work. Without it, the study of harmony would be a mere formal speculation, divorced from life and musical practice.
Why is it necessary to think harmonically?
The world of sounds has its exact laws, given by their physical, and therefore mathematically formulatable, nature. There is no way to bypass, for example, the physical existence of a number of overtones, frequency ratios of individual intervals, and other similar facts that have a direct influence on the formulation of a whole series of precepts and rules of musical harmony.

1. edition, online: 2025, publisher: Akademie múzických umění v Praze (Nakladatelství AMU), Praha