A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language - Couverture rigide

Rochberg, George; Jeremy Gill, Dr Jeremy

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ISBN 10 : 1580464130 ISBN 13 : 9781580464130

Editeur : University of Rochester Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

JEREMY GILL is an independent composer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Rochester Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1580464130
• ISBN 13: 9781580464130
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Éditeur: Jeremy Gill Dr Jeremy
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