A dance of polar opposites
George Rochberg · 2012
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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 musical past, and paints a picture of what he believed our musical future may be [Publisher description].
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Series
- Eastman studies in music -- v. 88
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 175
- ISBN
- 9781580464130
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