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Oct 30, 2019 · Perle 1991, Eimert 1950, and Covach 2002 are concerned with theory, although differently so: Perle and Eimert introduce the mechanics of serial and atonal music, while Covach presents a history of twelve-tone theory.
Perle earned a B.A. (1938) in music from DePaul University, Chicago, and continued compositional studies with Austrian American composer Ernst Krenek, a prominent exponent of the 12-tone technique of musical composition.
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Jan 24, 2009 · He began his musical studies in the early 1930s in Chicago, where his composition teacher was Wesley LaViolette. He also studied with Ernst Krenek in the early ’40s.
George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist. As a composer, his music was largely atonal , using methods similar to the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School .
As a result I find I must speak as much about myself at times as I do about George. In the early 1970s, Queens College (City University of New York) under- graduates could not major in music composition. I found this frustrating, having come to Queens with the near-obsessive intent of studying composition.
emergence of post-tonal music theory, Perle was a pioneer, as he wrote on his own and others' music from 1941, and his study of the music of the Second Viennese School, Serial Composition and Atonality was one of only a few contemporary comprehensive studies presenting a coherent view of post-tonal music.8 Perle's principal contributions are on the
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Abstract. George Perle's system of musical composition, which he enigmatically terms twelve-tone tonality, first arose as a youthful misunderstanding of Schoenberg's theory---access to which was severely limited in the 1930s---and evolved over several decades into an... [more]
