Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice - Hardcover

Persichetti, Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393095398 ISBN 13: 9780393095395

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1961

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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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1961
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393095398
• ISBN 13: 9780393095395
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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