Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern

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Preface to the Sixth Edition
Preface to the Fifth Edition
I Tonality, Atonality, Dodecaphony
II ''Free" Atonality
III Nondodecaphonic Sets
IV Motiuic Functions of the Set
V Simultaneity
VI Structural Functions of the Set
Appendix
Index to Basic Definitions
Index to Compositions

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Widely recognized as the definitive work in its field ever since its original publication in 1962, Serial Composition and Atonality remains an unsurpassed introduction to the technical features of what is probably the most revolutionary body of work since the beginnings of polyphony. In the analysis of specific compositions there is first and last of all a concern with the musical surface--an attempt to trace connections and distinctions there before offering any deeper-level constructions, and to offer none where their effects are not obvious on more immediate levels of musical experience. In this sixth edition of the book, George Perle employs the new and more consistent terminology for the identification of transpositional levels of twelve-tone sets that he first proposed in Twelve-Tone Tonality (1977).

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The best description in any language of twelve-tone techniques as developed by their originators

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