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The Language of Music - Clarendon Paperbacks
Deryck Cooke
The author's thesis is that the main characteristic of music is to express and evoke emotion and that all composers whose music has a tonal basis have used the same, or closely similar, melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms to express and evoke the same emotions.
304 pages, music examples
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 8, 1990 |
| Original release date | 1989 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198161806 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 215 × 141 × 18 mm · 417 g |
| Language | English |
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