The Listening Composer: Volume 7

by George Perle

Book Overview

George 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520205189
• ISBN13: 9780520205185
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"