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

by George Perle

Book Overview

Widely recognized as the definitive work in its field ever since its original publication in 1962, "Serial Composition and Atonality" remains an unsurpassed introduction to the technical features of what is probably the most revolutionary body of work since the beginnings of polyphony. In the analysis of specific compositions there is first and last of all a concern with the musical surface--an attempt to trace connections and distinctions there before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520043650
• ISBN13: 9780520043657
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.