Twentieth-Century Harmony : Creative Aspects and Practice

Persichetti, Vincent

ISBN 10: 0393095398 / ISBN 13: 9780393095395

Published by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1961

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twentieth-Century Harmony : Creative Aspects and Practice
• Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393095398
• ISBN 13: 9780393095395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

One of the most important books on contemporary music in the twentieth 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.

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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.