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Title: A DANCE OF POLAR OPPOSITES
THE CONTINUING TRANSFORMATION OF OUR MUSICAL LANGUAGE
By: George Rochberg, Jeremy Gill
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1580464130
ISBN 13: 9781580464130
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Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER LTD
Pub. date: 10 July, 2012
Series: Eastman Studies in Music v. 88
Pages: 186
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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. 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.
Illustrations: 117 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
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