| Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice Revised Edition Contributor(s): Persichetti, Vincent (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393095398 ISBN-13: 9780393095395 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1961 Annotation: One of the most important books on contemporary music to appear in this century. Here for the first time is an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in music of the first half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed in modern music, describes the formation and uses of chords by thirds, by fourths, and by seconds, of added-note chords and polychords; he deals with different types of harmonic motion, with harmonic rhythm and dynamic sand ornamentation, with harmonic behavior in tonality, polytonality, atonality and serial composition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Theory |
| Dewey: 781.3 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.19 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here for the first time is an orderly presentation of the harmonic procedures to be found in music of the first half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed in modern music, describes the formation and uses of chords by thirds, by fourths, and by seconds, of added-note chords and polychords; he deals with different types of harmonic motion, with harmonic rhythm and dynamic sand ornamentation, with harmonic behavior in tonality, polytonality, atonality and serial composition. |