Modern Music: A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment

ISBN: 9780313205569 (0313205566)
Edition Information: Rev ed.
Edition Type: Hardback
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Pages: 202
Date Published: 9th Jan 1979

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Modern Music: A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment

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Contents--What is Modern Music--and Why have People Never Liked It, at First?; Music has Always Told How People Think and Act; Dissonance--the Salt and Pepper of Music; Acoustics and the Development of Harmony; Impressionism--Debussy and His Followers; Schoenberg and Atonality; Music Written in Two or More Keys at Once--Polytonality; Back to Bach--Neoclassicism; Music for Everday use--Gebrauchsmusik; From Plain Song to Jazz--A Story of Rhythms; Tone Clusters, Quarter Tones, Percussive and Electronic Music; The Composer and the Public; Selected Reading List; Selected Recordings; Index.

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