Twelve-Tone Tonality

By George Perle

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520033876
• ISBN13: 9780520033870
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.