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The Listening Composer
George Perle
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Paperback. Taking us into a composer's workshop, this title reevaluates what we call 'twentieth-century music' - a term used to refer to modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or 'common practice', of the preceding three centuries. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 202 pages, 149 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call 'twentieth-century music' - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or 'common practice', of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that this music, in the course of breaking with the tonal tradition, presents coherent and definable elements of a new tradition. In spite of the disparity in their styles, idioms, and compositional methods, he argues, what unites Scriabin, Stravinsky, Bartok, and the Viennese circle (Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern) is more important than ... Read more
George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call 'twentieth-century music' - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or 'common practice', of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that this music, in the course of breaking with the tonal tradition, presents coherent and definable elements of a new tradition. In spite of the disparity in their styles, idioms, and compositional methods, he argues, what unites Scriabin, Stravinsky, Bartok, and the Viennese circle (Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern) is more important than ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Series
Ernest Bloch Lectures
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520205185
SKU
V9780520205185
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About George Perle
George Perle is one of this country's most respected composers and critics, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His writings on twentieth-century music include the now-standard text Serial Composition and Atonality, Twelve-Tone Tonality, and The Operas of Alban Berg, all available from the University of California Press.
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