Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition

by George Perle

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520201426
• ISBN13: 9780520201422
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.3"