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Title: Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice by Vincent Persichetti ISBN: 0-393-09539-8 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1961 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.70 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential for Composers and Contemporary Music Enthusiasts
Comment: Vincent Persichetti's "Twentieth Century Harmony" is a very thorough look at ways to use harmony outside of a traditional tonal context. In other words, if you are a composer and don't know all you could about how to use harmony except in tonal progressions, or if you are a listener interested in understanding twentieth century concert music, this book is for you. The book deals with the harmonic series, modes, synthetic scales, different types of chords (added note, polychords, etc.) and very specifically with different characteristics of different intervals. Littered with examples of nearly every point, it is the best education on contemporary harmony available.
Persichetti, unlike too many composers, doesn't go out of his way to use as many words as possible. He also doesn't attempt to criticize styles of music not his own in this writing; he simply gives an objective, clear, well organized series of lessons in harmony. I am a senior music composition student now, wondering how I ever got along without this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: recommended
Comment: A better book of this kind. (But best to study scores.) One quibble: The author calls the lowest note of a secundal chord voiced in seconds its root, and so for quartal chords, and this strikes me as arbitrary and illogical. It doesn't branch from what Rameau ("branch" in English) intended by "root". Readers interested in music theory will probably also want to look at PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.
Rating: 5
Summary: an excellent resource for composers and students
Comment: Twentiteh Century Harmony provides, in a concise, easy to follow format, a useful methodology of understanding and manipulating the musical structures of the twentieth century. Written from a teacher's perspective, the book is engaging and full of suggested exercises for the practice of the techniques being discussed in each chapter.
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Title: Study of Counterpoint by J.J. Fux ISBN: 0393002772 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1965 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music (2nd Edition) by Stefan Kostka ISBN: 0139240772 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 16 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $78.00 |
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Title: Structural Functions of Harmony by Arnold Sch-Onberg ISBN: 0393004783 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1969 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg by Arnold Schoenberg ISBN: 0520052943 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle ISBN: 0193171074 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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