Twentieth-Century Harmony – Creative Aspects and Practice
Twentieth-Century Harmony - Creative Aspects and Practice

Vincent Persichetti (author)

Discipline: Harmony

Category: Post-tonal harmony / New harmony

Type: Textbook / Coursebook / Guide / Companion

An orderly presentation of 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.

Keywords: modern music, polytonality, serial composition, twentieth-century, tonality, atonality

Publication languageEnglish
Publication place (country)United States
Publication place (city)New York City
Publication year1961
Used by (country)NETHERLANDS
Used by (city)DEN HAAG
Identifier 0 393 09539 8

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