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Twentieth Century Harmony Book

Hardcover Vincent Persichetti (Author) 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. Hardcover February 1961 ISBN 978-0-393-09539-5 6.5 × 9.5 in / 288 pagesRead More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • Blackwell

    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...

  • BookDepository

    Twentieth-Century Harmony : Hardback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393095395 : 0393095398 : 01 Apr 1961 : One of the most important books on contemporary music in the twentieth century.

  • 0393095398
  • 9780393095395
  • V Persichetti
  • 1 April 1961
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 287
  • New edition
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