Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second edition

California Univeristy Press - 001-100219

Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second edition

Sale price$73.95
Sold out
SKU: 9780520201422
Sheet music and other copyrighted materials are final sale.

    Author: George Perle

    Publisher: University of California Press

Pickup currently unavailable at Juilliard Store

Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second edition

Juilliard Store

Pickup currently unavailable

144 West 66th Street
New York NY 10023
United States

+12127995000
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.