GEORGE PERLE

'George Perle' (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a composer and music theorist who has studied with Ernst Krenek. He composes with a technique of his own devising called twelve-tone tonality, which is different from, but related to, twelve tone technique (Perle, 1992). Former student Paul Lansky describes it thus: "Basically this creates a hierarchy among the notes of the chromatic scale so that they are all referentially related to one or two pitches which then function as a tonic note or chord in tonality. The system similarly creates a hierarchy among intervals and finally among larger collections of notes, 'chords.' The main debt of this system to the 12-tone system lies in its use of an ordered linear succession in the same way that a 12-tone set does." (Chase 1992, p.587)
He was cofounder, in 1968, of the Alban Berg Society with Igor Stravinsky and, in 1986, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize for his ''Fourth Wind Quintet''.

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Partial bibliography

Source

External links

Partial bibliography

★ Perle, George (1992). Symmetry, the Twelve-Tone Scale, and Tonality. Contemporary Music Review 6 (2), pp. 81-96

★ Perle, George (1962, reprint 1991). ''Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern''. University of California Press.

★ Perle, George (1978, reprint 1992). ''Twelve-Tone Tonality''. University of California Press.

★ Perle, George (1990). ''The Listening Composer''. California: University of California Press. .

★ Perle, George (1984). Scriabin's Self-Analysis, ''Musical Analysis'' III/2 (July).

★ Perle, George (1985). ''The Operas of Alban Berg. Vol. 2: Lulu''. California: University of California Press.

Source

★ Chase, Gilbert (1992). ''America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present''. University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-06275-2.

External links

★ Wikiquote - quotes by and about George Perle

★ GeorgePerle.com A Life in Music

★ ENCOUNTERS: George Perle by George Sturm

★ New Music and Listener Expectation: A commencement address given at San Francisco Conservatory of Music by George Perle

★ Reflections by George Perle

★ Those Were The Days. Or Were They?: Three Living Legends of Contemporary Music Compare Yesterday and Today by Mic Holwin (also George Crumb and David Diamond)

★ In the 1st Person : Three Generations of Teaching Music Composition Part One: George Perle and Paul Lansky - February 19, 2002 - Upper West Side, New York, NY