The renowned American composer George Rochberg (1918-2005)
distilled a lifetime of insights about Western music across some
three hundred years in A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing
Transformation of Our Musical Language. In A Dance of Polar
Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language,
the renowned American composer George Rochberg distilled a lifetime
of insights about Western music across some three hundred years.
Rochberg describes how the asymmetrical tonal language of the late
eighteenth century--the era of Haydn and Mozart--evolved through
the gradual incursion of symmetry into a system based on the
juxtaposition of tonal and atonal, asymmetrical and symmetrical--as
seen in notable composers such as Webern, Prokofiev, and Rochberg
himself. A Dance of Polar Opposites takes us inside the composer's
studio, reveals how he assessed his and our musicalpast, and paints
a picture of what he believed our musical future may be. George
Rochberg (1918-2005), one of the most respected composers and
writers about music in the second half of the twentieth century,
was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize and longtime professor
at University of Pennsylvania. His writings include The Aesthetics
of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music (which
won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award);the memoir Five Lines, Four
Spaces; and a volume of letters. Jeremy Gill was a student of
George Rochberg and is a composer, conductor, and pianist.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Rochester Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Eastman Studies in Music |
| Release date: |
July 2012 |
| First published: |
2012 |
| Authors: |
George Rochberg
• Jeremy Jeremy Gill
(Customer)
|
| Editors: |
Jeremy Jeremy Gill
(Customer)
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
186 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-58046-413-0 |
| Subtitles: |
English
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| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-58046-413-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781580464130 |
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