| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 1942 under title: This modern music. |
| 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 -- Bach to Bach- Neoclassicism -- Music for everyday use- Gebrauchsmusik -- From plain song to jazz- a story of rhythms -- Tone clusters, quarter tones, percussive and electronic music -- The composer and the public. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Lyons, James, 1925-1973, author.
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