Modern Music: A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment

by John Tasker Howard, James Lyons, john tasker howard and james lyons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313205566
• ISBN13: 9780313205569
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"