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Twentieth-century Harmony : Creative Aspects and Practice by Vincent Ludwig Persichetti is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Twentieth-century Harmony : Creative Aspects and Practice about?
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.
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It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
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- Author
- Vincent Ludwig Persichetti
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 1961
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393095395
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- History, Music, Arts
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (114 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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