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Author Howard, John Tasker, 1890-1964.

Title This modern music; a guide for the bewildered listener.

Publication Info. Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press, [1969]
[©1957]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  ML197.H69 T4 1969    Available  ---
Description 234 pages : music. ; 23 cm.
Series Essay index reprint series
Essay index reprint series.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 215-216. Discography: pages 217-224.
Contents People Have Never Liked Modern Music-At First -- Music Tells How People Think, and Act -- Dissonance-the Salt and Pepper of Musiv -- Debussy Starts Something-Impressionism -- Schoenberg Finishes Something-Atonality -- Writing Music in Two or More Keys at Once-Polytonality -- Back to Bach-Neo-Classicism -- Workaday Music for Every-Day Use-Gebrauchsmusik -- From Plain-Song to Swing-A Story of Rhythms -- Tone-Clusters, Quarter-Tones, and Other Matters
Subject Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- 20th century -- Discography.
Genre/Form Discographies.
Subject Musique -- Discographie.
Musique -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Genre/Form Discographies.
ISBN 0836900189
9780836900187