{"product_id":"the-listening-composer-volume-7-paperback","title":"The Listening Composer: Volume 7 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Perle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call \"twentieth-century music\"--a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or \"common practice,\" of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that this music, in the course of breaking with the tonal tradition, presents coherent and definable elements of a new tradition. In spite of the disparity in their styles, idioms, and compositional methods, he argues, what unites Scriabin, Stravinsky, Bartók, and the Viennese circle (Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern) is more important than what separates them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf we are to understand the connections among these mainstream composers, we also have to understand their connections with the past. Through an extraordinarily comprehensive analysis of a single piece by Varèse, \u003ci\u003eDensity 21.5\u003c\/i\u003e for unaccompanied flute, Perle shows how these composers refer not only to their contemporaries but also to Wagner, Debussy, and Beethoven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerle isolates the years 1909-10 as the moment of revolutionary transformation in the foundational premises of our musical language. He asks: What are the implications of this revolution, not only for the composer, but also for the listener? What are the consequences for the theory and teaching of music today? In his highly original answers, Perle relates the role of intuition in the listening experience to its role in the compositional process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerle asserts that the post-Schoenbergian serialists have preoccupied themselves with secondary and superficial aspects of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method that have led it to a dead end but he also exposes the speciousness of current alternatives such as chance music, minimalism, and the so-called return to tonality. He offers a new and more comprehensive definition of \"twelve-tone music\" and firmly rejects the notion that accessibility to the new music is reserved for a special class of elite listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present volume consists of a series of six public lectures I delivered as Visiting Ernest Bloch Professor of Music at the University of California at Berkeley during the Spring 1989 semester, and of additional material on some of the same topics presented in a concurrent seminar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Perle\u003c\/b\u003e is one of this country's most respected composers and critics, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His writings on twentieth-century music include the now-standard text \u003ci\u003eSerial Composition and Atonality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTwelve-Tone Tonality\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Operas of Alban Berg\u003c\/i\u003e, all available from the University of California Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.18 x 6.09 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47469662470393,"sku":"9780520205185","price":57.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/azbkXIsc5F9780520205185.webp?v=1772485988","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-listening-composer-volume-7-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}