Eastman Studies in Music A Dance of Polar Opposites, Book 88, (Hardcover)

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 In A Dance of Polar Opposites the renowned American composer George 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 Eastman Studies in Music A Dance of Polar Opposites Hardcover