Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition

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About the author

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.

Summary

Argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. This book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples. It also discusses new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality.

Product details

• Authors: George Perle
• Assisted by: George Perle (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.1996
• EAN: 9780520201422
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20142-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology