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  George Perle
George Perle, winner in 1986 of both the Pulitzer Prize in music and a MacArthur Fellowship, was born in 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey.
Perle was among the first American composers to recognize and to be profoundly influenced by the revolutionary transformation in the language of music embodied in the work of the "Second Vienna School" in the early years of this century.
George Perle is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
www.sai-national.org /phil/composers/gperle.html   (318 words)

  
 Music Associates of America ~ MadAminA! George Perle
The composer thus honored this summer was George Perle, whose Concertino for Piano, Winds, and Timpani was performed towards the beginning of the Festival of Contemporary Music and whose Short Symphony received its world premiere at the end of "Fromm Week", with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Perle recalls with a mixture of nostalgia and gratification that he had, in fact, been the composer cottage's very first occupant during the summer of 1967.
Perle deeply believes, both as composer and analyst, that the last of these possibilities is his chosen direction.
www.musicassociatesofamerica.com /madamina/encounters/perle.html   (1428 words)

  
 George Perle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a composer and musicologist who has studied with Ernst Krenek.
He composes with a technique of his own devising called twelve-tone tonality, which is very different from the twelve tone technique (Perle, 1992).
In the 1st Person : Three Generations of Teaching Music Composition Part One: George Perle and Paul Lansky - February 19, 2002 - Upper West Side, New York, NY Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Perle"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Perle   (308 words)

  
 The Listening Composer
George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music"--a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries.
Perle asserts that the post-Schoenbergian serialists have preoccupied themselves with secondary and superficial aspects of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method that have led it to a dead end but he also exposes the speciousness of current alternatives such as chance music, minimalism, and the so-called return to tonality.
George Perle is one of this country's most respected composers and critics, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/5492.html   (378 words)

  
 Bridge Records Management - George Perle, composer
Though Perle is above all a composer, the breadth of his musical interests has led to significant contributions in theory and musicology as well.
George Perle is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York.
As music critic Andrew Porter has written, "Perle's renown as an analyst and scholar may have diverted some of the attention that should be given to his merits as a composer.
www.bridgerecords.com /gp_artist.htm   (255 words)

  
 Interivew with Georg Perle, George Crumb & David Diamond
George Crumb and with him David Diamond and George Perle have observed the comings and goings (and returns) of serialism, neo-romanticism, minimalism and structuralism.
83-year-old George Perle, author of the standard work on the music of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, Serial Composition and Atonality (now in its sixth edition), was one of the first American composers to be profoundly influenced by Schoenberg's radical new 12-tone technique in the early years of this century.
George Crumb's Echoes of Time and the River and the New York premiere of George Perle's Piano Concerto No. 1 will be performed at ACO's September 27 concert, conducted by Paul Lustig Dunkel.
www.americancomposers.org /millen1.htm   (1368 words)

  
 George Perle: Home
As George Perle celebrates his 90th birthday, he continues to be a vibrant and vital contributor to contemporary music, both as a composer and as a theorist.
Despite the depth and breadth of his activities, he is basically and deeply a composer, and his music is his finest and most eloquent accomplishment.
George Perle often talks enthusiastically about dance: Balanchine and Stravinsky hold a special place in his heart.
www.georgeperle.com   (491 words)

  
 George Perle: Reviews
“George Perle is a remarkably gifted composer who consistently manages to delight the ear while simultaneously stimulating the intellect.
Almost four decades separate the Perle pieces heard at either end of the concert - Woodwind Quintet No.1 (1959) and Critical Moments (1996) - yet their harmonic grammar is the same.
Each is characteristic of Perle in it's beautifully enameled sonorities and deft, good-natured instrumental interplay.
www.georgeperle.com /reviews.html   (380 words)

  
 Web Directory: Browse - InfoSpace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George Perle - Complete catalog and "Reflections on George Perle and his Music" by Paul Lasky (Princeton University)in Portable Document Format (PDF).
George Perle - Includes a short biography, and lists of works, books and publishers.
George Perle VS. Allen Forte - An article that explains some of Perle's objections to Forte's theories.
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 George perle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/george_perle   (137 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Paul Lansky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Paul Lansky (born 1944) is widely considered one of the original electronic music or computer music composers, and has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day (see discography, below).
A former student of George Perle, he is a currently professor of music composition at Princeton University, and in addition to his music is known as a pioneer in the development of computer music languages for algorithmic composition (see Real-Time Cmix).
Princeton University, incorporated as The Trustees of Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution to conduct higher education in the United States.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Paul-Lansky   (1281 words)

  
 George Perle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-George_Perle.html   (363 words)

  
 Alibris: George Perle
The first volume of George Perle's two-volume study on the two operas of Alban Berg...
In this classic work, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements.
These elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical language in the past.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/George_Perle   (302 words)

  
 Learning to speak music
George Perle, a leading 20th century composer, is celebrating his 90th birthday.
George Perle, one of this country’s most distinguished 20th century composers, was born May 6, 1915, in Bayonne, New Jersey.
So interesting that on June 7 there will be an all-Perle concert at the same Merkin Hall, preceded by one in May at Princeton, and that a major retrospective CD or several CDs of his work will come out soon from Bridge Records.
www.thevillager.com /vil_92/learningtospeakmusic.html   (970 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Serial Composition and Atonality : An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, Sixth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Perle lays out some of the basic issues of organization that grew out of atonality and how the idea of sets or rows was used to provide order.
Perle also shows the reader how composers use these rows and combine them in ways that create effects that are not a part of any of the rows including constructions that look like major and minor triads.
My main problem with this book is Perle's consistent use of the word "atonal." This furthers the myth that there is such thing as "atonal music." First of all, serialist work is more accurately "pantonal;" it encompasses all tonalities, and implies all tonalities.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520074300?v=glance   (1511 words)

  
 Making Music - George Perle, 12/5/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The all-Perle program, introduced by Carnegie Hall Artistic Advisor Ara Guzelimian, includes the New York premiere of Song Without Words from Chansons cachées for flute and piano and Musical Offerings for Left Hand Alone performed by Leon Fleisher, for whom the piece was written and which he premiered in 1999.
Perle is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York.
Perle’s residency with the San Francisco Symphony; Piano Concerto No. 2 (1992), commissioned by Michael Boriskin; Transcendental Modulations for Orchestra, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 150th anniversary; and Thirteen Dickinson Songs (1978) commissioned by Bethany Beardslee.
www.carnegiehall.org /article/press/press_release/99493.html   (667 words)

  
 Perle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up Perle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
For American society figure, political hostess, and former ambassador to Luxembourg, see Perle Mesta
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perle   (122 words)

  
 Random House | Books | An End to Evil by David Frum Richard Perle
Frum and Perle provide a detailed, candid account of America’s vulnerabilities: a military whose leaders resist change, intelligence agencies mired in bureaucracy, diplomats who put friendly relations with their foreign colleagues ahead of the nation’s interests.
Perle and Frum lay out a bold program to defend America—and to win the war on terror.
“[Richard Perle is the] intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy.
www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?1-58836-360-0   (491 words)

  
 Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
Now Perle is a committed 12-tone guy and our major expert on the music of Alban Berg, but despite the forbidding title the music turns out to be delightful, even charming.
The longest of the work's nine brief (around one minute or so) movements recalls the scene in Act 1 of Wozzeck in which the title character and his soldier friend gather sticks in a nearby field--there's the same haunting sense of pastoral desolation (the quiet snare drum rolls add a nicely atmospheric touch).
There is no "tune", not even in the sense that Perle has them, but for all that the music isn't at all difficult to follow, and the sounds that Schober conjures up are quite striking.
www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6383   (586 words)

  
 MTO 5.3: Dissertation Listings
George Perle, American composer and theorist, has authored an innovative theory called _Twelve-Tone Tonality_ (1977; 2nd ed.
The study explores the fundamental entities of Perle's theory, the cyclic sets, outside the context of twelve-tone tonality, from which emerge close associations of set classes identified as "imbricated cyclic set families." These families share a number of structural properties, including inversional symmetry, transpositional combination, and equivalence in other modular universes.
Through the presentation of the tenets of twelve-tone tonality, the theoretical exploration of the cyclic sets, and the analysis of selected works, the dissertation aims to show the depth and potential of the theory, both within and outside its own context.
www.societymusictheory.org:16080 /mto/issues/mto.99.5.3/dis.5.3.html   (1326 words)

  
 Perle 1
It is a great privilege to be joined by composer George Perle and pianist Michael Boriskin.
George Perle was among the first Americans to become attracted in the 1930s to the post-tonal music of Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg.
Although Perle is above all a composer, the breadth of his musical interest has led to significant contributions in theory and musicology, as well.
www.admin.ias.edu /air/words/perle.html   (290 words)

  
 GM 2020 - Da Capo Chamber Players: PERLE/CARTER
Along the way they have garnered the respect and admiration of a generation of composers, including two of the most highly esteemed of all American masters: George Perle and Elliott Carter.
This carefully chosen program reflects both the formative and mature work of each composer and the dynamic performances from Da Capo assure that this disc will become a milestone in the recorded history of twentieth century music.
Recorded (#9-12) May 1987 in the Recital Room at Shepard Hall at the City College of New York; (#2, 13) 5 Feburary 1988 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York; (#1, 3-8) 15-16 September 1988 at SUNY-Purchase.
www.gmrecordings.com /gm2020.htm   (169 words)

  
 ipedia.com: George Perle Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George Perle is a composer and musicologist who has studied with Ernst Krenek.
He composes with a technique of his own devising called twelve-tone tonality, which is very different from the twelve ton...
In the 1st Person : Three Generations of Teaching Music Composition Part One: George Perle and Paul Lansky - February 19, 2002 - Upper West Side, New York, NY Related Content and Links
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 Eastman Celebration of the Music of George Perle, Rochester, NY, November 2005
The Eastman School of Music announces a "Celebration of the Music of George Perle" to be held on Monday November 28th in Rochester, NY.
The celebration will consist of an afternoon session featuring talks on the music and life of George Perle and an evening concert of Perle's music, featuring pianist Michael Boriskin and others.
The Perle celebration is sponsored by the American Music Fund, and the departments of Music Theory, Musicology, and Keyboard at the Eastman School of Music.
www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Conferences/05-b-per.html   (154 words)

  
 Worldwide Music Departments Index -- Estonia -- Education and Academic Resources at Harmonicity.com
As far as I can tell, George Perle's books are the only ones that really come to grips with atonality.
Having heard one of George Perle's piano sonatas on the radio the other day and once a string quartet of his in concert, I can testify that he is himself a first-rate composer, and isn't it better to read the works of one who has an artistic stake in his subject?
As it happens, I'm not a particular fan of his music, and I think his analyses tend miss the substance of the music he analyzes, but he is an influential, articulate, and intelligent exponent worth hearing out.
www.harmonicity.com /education/countries/departments_estonia.htm   (285 words)

  
 George Perle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He composes with a technique of own devising called twelve-tone tonality which is different from the twelve tone technique (Perle 1992).
Perle's book is considered a classic in the theory world, and well so.
Les pêcheurs de perles: Opéra en trois actes
www.freeglossary.com /George_Perle   (398 words)

  
 Perle8
I just thought to add (when Jon mentioned George's pieces that have been withheld or not shared with the public) one of my first experiences working with you, George.
Finally, George said, “Well, why don't you take it home and see if you can make anything out of it.” And I looked at it and it was wonderful.
And George marked it, when he wrote it in 1937 or something like that, “Without any rubato” – absolutely to be played straight.
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 ipedia.com: Twelve-tone technique Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Invariant formations are also the side effect of derived rows where a segment of a set remains similar or the same under transformation.
These may be used as "pivots" between set forms, sometimes used by Anton Webern, see George Perle.
Also, some composers have used cyclic permutation, or rotation, where the row is taken in order but using a different starting note.
www.ipedia.com /twelve_tone_technique_1.html   (1256 words)

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