Modern Music: A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment
by John Tasker Howard, James Lyons (Author)
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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 show more Electronic Music; The Composer and the Public; Selected Reading List; Selected Recordings; Index. show lessTags
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A quick brisk read in three acts:
I: "Modern" is a delusion of aspect. Every articulate observer sans time machine is at the end of a chain of events reaching back to antiquity.
II: DIssonance is the eventual object in the evolution of composers' imaginations and listeners' ears.
III: Enjoy and explore experimental and challenging music.
I: "Modern" is a delusion of aspect. Every articulate observer sans time machine is at the end of a chain of events reaching back to antiquity.
II: DIssonance is the eventual object in the evolution of composers' imaginations and listeners' ears.
III: Enjoy and explore experimental and challenging music.
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- Original publication date
- 1942
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