Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition by Perle, George

Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520201422)

Vendor: George Perle
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$73.95
$73.95
$73.95
Subtotal: $73.95
Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition by Perle, George

Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition

$73.95
Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition by Perle, George

Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition

$73.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x
In this classic work, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. These elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical language in the past. His book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples.

The second edition of Twelve-Tone Tonality is enlarged by eleven new chapters, some of which are "postscripts" to earlier chapters--clarifying, elucidating, and expanding upon concepts discussed in the original edition. Others discuss new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality, including voice-leading implications of the system and dissonance treatment.

Author: George Perle
ISBN-10: 0520201426
ISBN-13: 9780520201422
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/23/1996
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 10.32h x 7.23w x 0.85d
By George Perle
By George Perle
x
George Perle is a distinguished composer and Professor Emeritus of Music at the City University of New York. His books include Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern (Sixth Edition, California, 1991); The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume 1, Wozzeck (California, 1980) and Volume 2, Lulu (California, 1985); and The Listening Composer (California, 1990). He has been a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Recently Viewed Products