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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Howard, John Tasker ; Lyons, James ; Unknown
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| Publisher: |
Praeger
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| Date: |
01/09/1979
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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