From the Foreward: “Never before in the history of music have there been so many divergent schools of musical thought co-existing and enjoying some measure of popularity. Since the turn of the century the language of music has been time and time again torn apart, restructured, added to, subtracted from, purged, examined and reexamined.

The 1900’s, have seen the birth and/or bringing to fruition of such myriad musical concepts as pantonality, pandiatonicism, panchromaticism, bitonality, polyto...