| Description |
175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Eastman studies in music,
1071-9989 ;
v. 88
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Eastman studies in music ; v. 88.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Setting the stage. The morphology of musical language ; Diatonic asymmetry, enharmonic spelling, and multidirectionality -- Symmetry in tonal music. Intimations of circularity : embryonic circular sets ; More evolved circular sets ; Fully evolved circular sets -- Pitch organization on larger scales. The harmonic envelope ; The harmonic field ; The tonal field -- Looking ahead. The shadow of futurity ; A new circle of fifths -- Afterword : polarity, unity of opposites, contraries, gyres -- Appendix 1 : George Rochberg Archives -- Appendix 2 : Celebrating George Rochberg's eightieth year. |
| Summary |
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]. |
| Subject |
Music theory.
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Musical analysis.
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Tonality.
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| Added Author |
Gill, Jeremy, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781580464130 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1580464130 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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