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A Dance of Polar Opposites (Eastman Studies in Music)
A Dance of Polar Opposites - Eastman Studies in Music Author:George Rochberg In A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language, the renowned American composer George Rochberg distilled a lifetime of insights about Western music across some three hundred years. Rochberg describes how the asymmetrical tonal language of the late eighteenth century-the era of Haydn and Mozart-evolved, throu... more »gh 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 musicalpast, and paints a picture of what he believed our musical future may be.« less