MTU Library Catalogue

Modern music : a popular guide to greater musical enjoyment / John Tasker Howard and James Lyons.

By: Howard, John Tasker, 1890-1964 [author.].
Contributor(s): Lyons, James, 1925-1973 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : The New American Library, 1942 1947Description: 160 pages : illustrations, music ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Music -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.904
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 everyday use - Gebrauchsmusik -- From plain song to jazz - a story of rhythms -- Tone clusters, quarter tones, percussive and electronic music -- The composer and the public.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.904 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00168275
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.904 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 16/09/2026 00142584
Total holds: 0

Bibliography: (pages 134-135) and index.

Selected recordings: (pages 136-149)

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 everyday use - Gebrauchsmusik -- From plain song to jazz - a story of rhythms -- Tone clusters, quarter tones, percussive and electronic music -- The composer and the public.

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