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Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition
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Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition Hardcover - 1996

by George Perle


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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.

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  • Title Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition
  • Author George Perle
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2 Rev Exp
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-07-23
  • ISBN 9780520201422 / 0520201426
  • Weight 1.66 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.32 x 7.23 x 0.85 in (26.21 x 18.36 x 2.16 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Twelve-tone system
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94040067
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.268

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.
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