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Illegal harmonies

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Illegal harmonies : music in the modern age / Andrew Ford.

  • xvi, 284 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 24 cm.
  • Published by Black Inc. — 2011
  • Sales Availability: This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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  • Library Availability: 780.904/2 — Available for loan

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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: 9781863955287

Includes index.


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