Modern Music: A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313205569)

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.

Author: John Tasker Howard,James Lyons,Unknown
ISBN-10: 0313205566
ISBN-13: 9780313205569
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/09/1979
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d