Illegal Harmonies. Music In The 20th Century

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Hale & Iremonger
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: First Edition

Description: 266 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A delightful and informative history of modern music. Harmony is created by bringing sounds together. In music lessons, we learn how to do this in a formal way: we learn about chords and keys, and we are given rules for using them. This is the textbook way; this is legal harmony. Everything else - including the sounds that constantly surround us, those of ticking clocks, dogs, traffic, birdsong and aeroplanes - is illegal harmony. Illegal Harmonies charts the course of music over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, linking it to developments in literature, theatre, cinema and the visual arts, and to popular music from Irving Berlin to The Beatles to rap. The result is a stimulating, provocative and always informative cultural history.

ISBN: 9780868066356