| George Perle | |
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| Born | May 6, 1915 |
| Origin | Bayonne, New Jersey  |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a composer and music theorist. Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, south of Jersey City. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, south of Jersey City. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Music theory is the field of study that deals with the Mechanics of music and how Music works A student of Ernst Krenek, Perle composes with a technique of his own devising called "twelve-tone tonality," which is different from, but related to, twelve-tone technique (Perle, 1992). Ernst Krenek ( August 23 1900 &ndash December 22 1991) was an Austrian born (and from 1945 an American) Composer Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony, especially in British usage twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Perle's former student Paul Lansky describes it thus: "Basically this creates a hierarchy among the notes of the chromatic scale so that they are all referentially related to one or two pitches which then function as a tonic note or chord in tonality. Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from The system similarly creates a hierarchy among intervals and finally, among larger collections of notes, 'chords. ' The main debt of this system to the 12-tone system lies in its use of an ordered linear succession in the same way that a 12-tone set does" (Chase 1992, p. 587).
In 1968 Perle cofounded the Alban Berg Society with Igor Stravinsky and Hans F. Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9 1885 &ndash December 24 1935 was an Austrian Composer. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский) ( &ndash 6 April 1971 was a Russian born Composer, considered by many to Redlich, who had the idea (according to Perle in his letter to Glen Flax of 4/1/89). In 1986 Perle was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize for his Fourth Wind Quintet. The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism,
Partial bibliography
- Perle, George (1992). Symmetry, the Twelve-Tone Scale, and Tonality. Contemporary Music Review 6 (2), pp. 81-96
- Perle, George (1962, reprint 1991). Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. University of California Press.
- Perle, George (1978, reprint 1992). Twelve-Tone Tonality. University of California Press.
- Perle, George (1990). The Listening Composer. California: University of California Press. .
- Perle, George (1984). Scriabin's Self-Analysis, Musical Analysis III/2 (July).
- Perle, George (1985). The Operas of Alban Berg. Vol. 2: Lulu. California: University of California Press.
Source
- Chase, Gilbert (1992). America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-06275-2.
External links
- George Perle's homepage
- Wikiquote - quotes by and about George Perle
- GeorgePerle.com A Life in Music
- ENCOUNTERS: George Perle by George Sturm
- New Music and Listener Expectation: A commencement address given at San Francisco Conservatory of Music by George Perle
- Reflections by George Perle
- Those Were The Days. Or Were They?: Three Living Legends of Contemporary Music Compare Yesterday and Today by Mic Holwin (also George Crumb and David Diamond)
- 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
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