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Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern

Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern

by Perle (Author)

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    Hardcover 1992

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Synopsis

Widely recognized as the definitive work in its field ever since its original publication in 1962, Serial Composition and Atonality remains an unsurpassed introduction to the technical features of what is probably the most revolutionary body of work since the beginnings of polyphony. In the analysis of specific compositions there is first and last of all a concern with the musical surface--an attempt to trace connections and distinctions there before offering any deeper-level constructions, and to offer none where their effects are not obvious on more immediate levels of musical experience. In this sixth edition of the book, George Perle employs the new and more consistent terminology for the identification of transpositional levels of twelve-tone sets that he first proposed in Twelve-Tone Tonality (1977).

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 178
 Edition: 6th Revised edition
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 01 Jul 1992
ISBN 10: 0520074300
ISBN 13: 9780520074309

Media Reviews
The best description in any language of twelve-tone techniques as developed by their originators. -- Notes
Author Bio
George Perle, one of this country's most respected composers, theorists, and critics, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His writings on twentieth-century music include The Listening Composer (1990), The Operas of Alban Berg (1980, 1984), and Twelve-Tone Tonality (1977), all available from the University of California Press.