Twentieth-century harmony : creative aspects and practice
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
287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780393095395, 0393095398
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Intervals
Scale materials
Chords by thirds
Chords by fourths
Added-note chords
Chords by seconds
Polychords
Compound and mirror harmony
Harmonic direction
Timing and dynamics
Embellishment and transformation
Key centers
Harmonic synthesis