Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice by Vincent Persichetti

One of the most important books on contemporary music in the twentieth century.

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The author examines the nature of intervals in various contexts, discusses the modes and other scales employed in modern music, describes the formation and uses of chords by thirds, by fourths, and by seconds, of added-note chords and polychords; he deals with different types of harmonic motion, with harmonic rhythm and dynamic sand ornamentation, with harmonic behavior in tonality, polytonality, atonality and serial composition.

This isn't any ordinary music theory book. This is the kind of book that you might want to read several times, over and over again. The author did not copy and paste a library of scores as a filler material.

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