Modern Music: A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment by Howard, John Tasker & Lyons, James

A Mentor Book,New American L. Paperback. Very Good. A Mentor Book,New American L. Paperback. Very Good.

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A Mentor Book,New American L, 1958-01-01. Paperback. Good. A good copy with a tight and square binding. Softcovers are good. Text is clean but has yellowed. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

New York: The New American Library, 1958. 'A Mentor Book' - 212. Contents: 1). What is modern music - and why have people never liked it, at first? 2). Music has always told how people think and act. 3). Dissonance - the salt and pepper of music. 4). Acoustics and development of harmony. 5). Impressionism - Debussy and his followers. 6). Schoenberg and atonality. 7). Music written in two ore more keys at once - polytonality. 8). Back to Bach - Neoclassicism. 9). Music for everyday use - Gebrauchsmusik. 10). From plain song to jazz - a story of rhythms. 11). Tone clusters, quarter tones, percussive and electronic music. 12). The composer and the public. With selected reading list, selected recordings and index. 160 pag. . Revised edition. Paperback. Good copy/Cover in color. 18cmx11cm.