New Tonality
Published on 1. January 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-3-7186-5187-0 (ISBN)
Description
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reviews / Votes
"Who would ever have thought that atonality would become so fiercely attacked in a magazine like this? This book successfully attacks the current primordiality of atonal composition...Although it covers an area that I do not frequently visit I really liked reading this book; in a way it is very controversial." -- Contemporary VitalMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chur
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7186-5187-0 (9783718651870)
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Content
Guston and me - digression and return, George Rochberg; "entune", Lou Harrison; an interview with David Del Tredici, Paul Moravec; the Daedalian factor - tonality, atonality, or musicality?, John Anthony Lennon; conversation between SJ and JS on the new tonality, Stephen Jaffe; tonality and transcendence, Paul Moravec; some remarks on the new tonality, Larry Bell; emancipation of tonal sonorities, Kamran Ince; "everything old is new again", Daron Hagen; long live tonality!, Kurt Schwertsik; the past as a presence in part one of Louis Andriessen's "De Materie", Louis Andriessen and Edward Harsh; symmetries and the "new tonality", John Harbison; symmetry, the twelve-tone scale, and tonality, George Perle; cognitive constraints on compositional systems, Fred Lerdahl.