Title: Twentieth-century music idioms.
Authors: Marquis, G. Welton.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Year: 1964
Subjects: Music theory.; Twelve-tone system.
Contents: The melodic line. The problem of understanding ; Basic rules ; Melodic curves ; Rhythmic procedures ; Constructing the melodic line -- Two-part writing. Dissonance and consonance ; Melodic movement ; Rhythmic procedures ; Harmonic rhythm ; Constructing the counterpoint -- Three-part writing. Harmonic implications ; Other considerations ; Compositional procedures -- Composition in four or more parts. Texture ; Harmonic implications ; Rhythmic problems ; Compositional procedures -- Contrapuntal devices. The fugue -- Increasing dissonance. Non-serial composition ; Contrapuntal procedures ; Pointillism -- The twelve-tone technique. The tone row ; Melodic writing ; Two-part writing ; Multi-voice writing -- Harmonic directions. Traditional triads ; Other traditional chords ; Polytonality and polychords ; Other chordal form ; Compositional suggestions -- Postlude -- Index.