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Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition

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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 ...

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Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition 1996, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520201422

2nd Rev and Expanded edition

Hardcover