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

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Management number 231988129 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price US$21.49 Model Number 231988129
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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). Read more

ISBN10 0520074300
ISBN13 978-0520074309
Edition Sixth Edition, (Unjacketed)
Language English
Publisher University of California Press
Dimensions 7 x 0.8 x 10.25 inches
Item Weight 1.4 pounds
Print length 178 pages
Publication date April 11, 1991

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