A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language Contributor(s): Rochberg, George (Author), Jeremy Gill, Jeremy (Author), Jeremy Gill, Jeremy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1580464130 ISBN-13: 9781580464130 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Theory - Music | History & Criticism - General |
Dewey: 781 |
LCCN: 2012006782 |
Series: Eastman Studies in Music |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 9" W x 6.2" (1.10 lbs) 186 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |