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George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a composer and musicologist who has studied sustaining Ernst Krenek. He composes by using a system of his have making known as 12-tone key, which is very different from either the twelve tone technique (Perle, 1992). Previous student Paul Lansky describes: "Basically this creates a hierarchy among the notes of the chromatic scale so that they are all referentially related to one or two pitches which then function as a tonic note or chord in tonality. The system similarly creates a hierarchy among intervals and finally among larger collections of notes, 'chords.' The main debt of this system to the 12-tone system lies in its use of an ordered linear succession in the same way that a 12-tone set does." (Chase 1992, p.587) He was cofounder, around 1968, of the Alban Berg Society with Igor Stravinsky and, in 1986, was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize for his Fourth Wind Quintet.
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George Perle Includes a short biography, and lists of works, books and publishers. George Perle Some thoughts on George Perle's "Serial Composition and Atonality: an Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern" George Perle - Winter 2000 Lists premiers, performances, publications and recordings. George Perle Complete catalog and "Reflections on George Perle and his Music" by Paul Lasky (Princeton University)in Portable Document Format (PDF). George Perle VS. Allen Forte An article that explains some of Perle's objections to Forte's theories. |
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