George Perle

George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is a composer and musicologist who has studied with Ernst Krenek. He composes with a technique of his own devising called twelve-tone tonality, which is very different from the twelve tone technique (Perle, 1992). Former 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)

External links

• Wikiquote - quotes by and about George Perle
• GeorgePerle.com A Life in Music
• ENCOUNTERS: George Perle by George Sturm
• New Music and Listener Expectation: A commencement address given at San Francisco Conservatory of Music by George Perle
• Reflections by George Perle
• Those Were The Days. Or Were They?: Three Living Legends of Contemporary Music Compare Yesterday and Today by Mic Holwin (also George Crumb and David Diamond)
• In the 1st Person : Three Generations of Teaching Music Composition Part One: George Perle and Paul Lansky - February 19, 2002 - Upper West Side, New York, NY