Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition
Title | Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | George Perle |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1996-07-23 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780520201422 |
The challenge, in twentieth-century music, to the normative status of triadic tonality is one of the most far-reaching and extreme revolutions that the history of music has known. In his classic work, Twelve-Tone Tonality, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. According to Perle, 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 these 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. Errors discovered in the original edition have been corrected. - Jacket flap.
Twelve-Tone Music in America
Title | Twelve-Tone Music in America PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph N. Straus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521899550 |
Most histories of American music have ignored the presence of twelve-tone music before and during the Second World War, and virtually all have ignored its presence after 1970, even though so many major composers continued (and continue) to compose serially. This book provides a comprehensive history of twelve-tone music in America, and compels a revised picture of American music since 1925 as a dynamic steady-state within which twelve-tone serialism has long been, and still remains, a persistent presence: a vigorous and unbroken tradition for more than eighty years. Straus outlines how, instead of a rigid orthodoxy, American twelve-tone music is actually a flexible, loosely-knit cultural practice. The book provides close readings of thirty-seven American twelve-tone works by composers including Copland, Babbitt, Stravinsky and Carter, among many others, who represent a typically American diversity of background and life circumstances, and strips away the many myths surrounding twelve-tone music in America.
Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music
Title | Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Boss |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2014-10-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107046866 |
Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer's 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life.
Serial Composition and Atonality
Title | Serial Composition and Atonality PDF eBook |
Author | George Perle |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780520019355 |
Twelve-Tone Music in America
Title | Twelve-Tone Music in America PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph N. Straus |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781107637313 |
Most histories of American music have ignored the presence of twelve-tone music before and during the Second World War, and virtually all have ignored its presence after 1970, even though so many major composers continued (and continue) to compose serially. This book provides a comprehensive history of twelve-tone music in America, and compels a revised picture of American music since 1925 as a dynamic steady-state within which twelve-tone serialism has long been, and still remains, a persistent presence: a vigorous and unbroken tradition for more than eighty years. Straus outlines how, instead of a rigid orthodoxy, American twelve-tone music is actually a flexible, loosely-knit cultural practice. The book provides close readings of thirty-seven American twelve-tone works by composers including Copland, Babbitt, Stravinsky and Carter, among many others, who represent a typically American diversity of background and life circumstances, and strips away the many myths surrounding twelve-tone music in America.
The Rest Is Noise
Title | The Rest Is Noise PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Ross |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Schoenberg's Twelve-tone Harmony
Title | Schoenberg's Twelve-tone Harmony PDF eBook |
Author | Martha M. Hyde |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Music |
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