Modern Music - A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment

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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• Authors: John Tasker Howard, Howard John T., James Lyons, Lyons James, Unknown
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.1979
• EAN: 9780313205569
• ISBN: 978-0-313-20556-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts