Modern Music: A Popular Guide to Greater Musical Enjoyment

Contents–What is Modern Music–and Why have People Never Liked It, at First?; Music has Always Told How People Think and Act; Dissonance–the Salt and Pepper of Music; Acoustics and the Development of Harmony; Impressionism–Debussy and His Followers; Schoenberg and Atonality; Music Written in Two or More Keys at Once–Polytonality; Back to Bach–Neoclassicism; Music for Everday use–Gebrauchsmusik; From Plain Song to Jazz–A Story of Rhythms; Tone Clusters, Quarter Tones, Percussive and Electronic Music; The Composer and the Public; Selected Reading List; Selected Recordings; Index.