{"product_id":"a-dance-of-polar-opposites-9781580464130","title":"A Dance of Polar Opposites","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe renowned American composer George Rochberg (1918-2005) distilled a lifetime of insights about Western music across some three hundred years in \u003ci\u003eA Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Dance of Polar Opposites\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music\u003c\/i\u003e (which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award);the memoir \u003ci\u003eFive Lines, Four Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e; and a volume of letters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jeremy Gill was a student of George Rochberg and is a composer, conductor, and pianist.","brand":"George Rochberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280343740667,"sku":"9781580464130","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781580464130.jpg?v=1772485055","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/a-dance-of-polar-opposites-9781580464130","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}