A Dance of Polar Opposites : The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language Hardback
by George Rochberg, Dr Jeremy (Independent composer) Jeremy Gill
Edited by Dr Jeremy (Independent composer) Jeremy Gill
Part of the Eastman Studies in Music series
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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.
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- Pages:186 pages, 1 b/w, 117 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:10/07/2012
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- ISBN:9781580464130
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:186 pages, 1 b/w, 117 line illus.
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:10/07/2012
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- ISBN:9781580464130