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

by Perle (Author)

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Hardcover: 178 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 6th Revised edition edition (1 Jul 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0520074300
ISBN-13: 978-0520074309
Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.5 x 2 cm

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5.0 out of 5 stars Clear insight into a complex style., 22 Dec 1997

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Although I have not delved into an extensive study of books on this subject, Perle's "Serial Composition and Atonality" provides the reader with an easily approchable look into and often misunderstood art form. He covers the development of the Second Vienese Style from "free" atonality through more complex set structures using plenty of musical examples and "speaks" in a "normal" manner rather than trying to bog down the reader with a lot of complex technobabble (the subject is dry enough to begin with) that looses a person within the first sentence.

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5.0 out of 5 stars penetrating and accessible, 15 Jan 2000

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As far as I can tell, George Perle's books are the only ones that really come to grips with atonality. Others are either 1) simplistic glosses, 2) pieces of propaganda, or 3) attempts to impress or intimidate the reader (so as to entrench their authors in academia). Having heard one of George Perle's piano sonatas on the radio the other day and once a string quartet of his in concert, I can testify that he is himself a first-rate composer, and isn't it better to read the works of one who has an artistic stake in his subject?

However, for a contrasting point of view, I also recommend--with certain reservations--"Milton Babbitt: Words about Music", edited by Stephen Dembski.

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