The right notes twenty-three selected essays by George Perle on twentieth-century music

• Main Author: Perle, George 1915-2009 (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Stuyvesant Pendragon Press 1995
• Subjects: Music > usic > Instruction and stud > 20th century; Music > usic > History and criticis > 20th century
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• Physical Description: xiii, 310 pages illustration 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 9780945193371; 0945193378

George Perle has divided this collection into four parts Composers and Works (Bartïk Berg Schoenberg Scriabin and Webern Towards a New Musical Language Some Critical Appraisals of Contemporary Music Theory and On Listening to Modern Music. These 23 articles reviews lectures and speeches represent the best of 50 years of musical thought and insight by one of the keenest musical minds of this century. Sharing this particular composer's point of view leads the reader to an understanding of the linear progression(not easily apparent) from the last century to the next.