Modern Harmony - Its Explanation and Application #224700

The greater elasticity of technique in this and other directions is the natural outlet for the composer from the trite, Obvious, and commonplace to a wider and more forceful expression. The listener must indeed be dull who cannot distinguish between such masterly freedoms and the uncouth clumsinesses Of the 'prentice hand. The wise wonder at the usual, whilst the unwise wonder at the unusual. It is only natural that artists should drop the idioms of the great masters as soon as they have become vulgarized by much repetition and base imitation, and in consequence use newer methods Of chord-building, progres sion, and resolution in seeking self-expression.