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Ultra-Modernism on Trial
Mason, Daniel Gregory | June 17, 1925 issue

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The article presents information about two books "The New Music," by George Dyson and "A Survey of Contemporary Music," by Cecil Gray. Dyson devotes a good proportion of his book to a systematic analysis of the harmonic texture of modern music and his treatment is at once more logical and more thorough than anything else on the subject that comes to mind. Both of these books are in accord with the best contemporary opinion in an inclination toward skepticism, as to the power of an art so preoccupied with sense stimulation and so empty of mental and spiritual appeal as ultra-modern music is permanently to satisfy our aesthetic interests.

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SKEPTICISM; NEW Music, The (Book); SURVEY of Contemporary Music, A (Book); DYSON, George; GRAY, Cecil; MUSIC
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