Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second edition

By: George Perle

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Hardcover | 23 July 1996 | Edition Number 2

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272 Pages

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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. His book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples.

The second edition of Twelve-Tone Tonality is enlarged by eleven new chapters, some of which are "postscripts" to earlier chapters-clarifying, elucidating, and expanding upon concepts discussed in the original edition. Others discuss new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality, including voice-leading implications of the system and dissonance treatment.

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"Schoenberg would have been fascinated by this book, with its outstanding intellectual vision and its steps towards a reconciliation between notions of tonality and twentieth-century pitch structure."--Jonathan Dunsby, "Music and Letters

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Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction	p. 3
Inversionally Complementary Cycles	p. 7
Symmetrical Chords and Progressions	p. 12
Dyadic Sums and Differences	p. 18
The Cyclic Set of Interval 7	p. 20
Cognate Sets	p. 22
Verticalization in Twelve-Tone Music	p. 25
Cyclic Chords and Axis-Note Dyads	p. 27
Difference Tables	p. 31
Composing with Twelve-Tone Modes	p. 33
The Odd and Even Modes	p. 45
Sum Tables	p. 47
Tonic and Resultant Set Forms	p. 49
Sum Tetrachords	p. 53
The Cyclic Set of Interval 1	p. 57
Larger Implications of Tonic Set Forms	p. 61
The Interval-1 and Interval-7 Sets Combined	p. 67
Derived Sets	p. 71
The Remaining Cyclic Sets	p. 75
Alban Berg's Master Array of the Interval Cycles	p. 80
Sum and Difference Scales	p. 84
The Master Modes	p. 86
The Master Keys	p. 99
Composing with Sum Tetrachords	p. 111
Modulation Through Tonic Chords	p. 120
Imitative Counterpoint	p. 128
Large-Scale Progression	p. 132
The Three Tonalities	p. 138
Triadic Arrays	p. 146
Conclusion	p. 157
Symmetrical Progressions Through Non-Symmetrical Chords: A Postscript to Chapter 3	p. 171
Voice-Leading Implications of Sum Tetrachords	p. 177
Transpositional and Symmetrical Equivalence: Aggregate Sums and the Three Tonalities	p. 183
The Synoptic Array: A Postscript to Chapters 22 and 23	p. 192
Modulation Through Substitution: A Postscript to Chapter 25	p. 198
Modulation Through Reinterpretation	p. 206
Imitative Counterpoint II: A Postscript to Chapter 26	p. 224
Consonant and Dissonant Figuration	p. 229
Background and Foreground Sums and Cycles	p. 235
The Unanswered Questions	p. 241
Tonality	p. 248
Appendix: Dyadic Cyclic Sets	p. 253
Index to Names and Compositions	p. 255
Index to Basic Definitions	p. 256
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