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.
About the Author
Andrew Ford is a composer, writer and broadcaster and presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National. The Sound of Pictures is his sixth book.
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Number Of Pages: 284
Published: 2nd May 2011
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.427
Edition Number: 1