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12-542: They have commissioned works by composers including George Perle 's Wind Quintet IV , 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music winner. In 1981 they were the first wind quintet to appear in Carnegie Hall . The ensemble's members are flutist Gretchen Pusch , oboist Gerard Reuter , clarinetist Benjamin Fingland , bassoonist Adrian Morejon and French hornist Karl Kramer-Johansen . This article about

24-685: A technician fifth grade in the United States Army during World War II . He earned his doctorate at New York University in 1956. Perle composed with a technique of his own devising called "twelve-tone tonality". This technique was different from, but related to, the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School , of which he was an "early admirer" and whose techniques he used aspects of but never fully adopted. Perle's former student Paul Lansky described Perle's twelve-tone tonality thus: Basically this creates

36-502: A classical ensemble is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . George Perle George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist . As a composer, his music was largely atonal , using methods similar to the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School . This serialist style, and atonality in general, was the subject of much of his theoretical writings. His 1962 book, Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to

48-400: 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

60-464: A high art, and wrote the most successful series of music appreciation textbooks in history. (Machlis's Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening has been used by more than 3.5 million students and is in its tenth edition. ) Later faculty included Felix Salzer , a refugee from Austria who was a student of the theorist Heinrich Schenker and became the leading exponent of his ideas to generations of American students and scholars; and

72-573: A sampling of Perle's work for piano. Perle was married to the sculptor Laura Slobe from 1940 to 1952; the couple were members of the Socialist Workers Party . His second wife, Barbara Philips, died in 1978. Perle married Shirley Xenia Gabis in 1982. Richard Swift differentiates between Perle's 'free' or 'intuitive', tone-centered , and twelve-tone modal music. He lists Perle's tone-centered compositions: Aaron Copland School of Music The Aaron Copland School of Music

84-549: A secret program dedicated to Berg's love-affair. After retiring from Queens College in 1985, he became a professor emeritus at the Aaron Copland School of Music . In 1986, Perle was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Wind Quintet No. 4 and also a MacArthur Fellowship . In about 1989 Perle became composer-in-residence for the San Francisco Symphony, a three-year appointment. It

96-597: Is one of the oldest departments at Queens College , founded when the College opened in 1937. The department's curriculum was originally established by Edwin Stringham , and a later emphasis on the analytical system of Heinrich Schenker was initiated by Saul Novack . Some of the students who enrolled in early classes of the college later became faculty members of the department. This included Sol Berkowitz , Gabriel Fontrier, Leo Kraft . Other distinguished faculty from

108-531: The Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern remains a standard text for 20th-century classical music theory. Among Perle's awards was the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Wind Quintet No. 4 . Perle was born in Bayonne, New Jersey , to Russian Jewish parents. He graduated from DePaul University , where he studied with Wesley LaViolette and received private lessons from Ernst Krenek . Later, he served as

120-614: The early years included John Castellini , who founded the Choral Society; Boris Schwarz, a refugee from his native Russia in 1917 and later from Nazi Germany in the 1930s; Saul Novack, who later became Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities; and Barry Brook, who with Novack established the doctoral program in music at the Graduate Center of CUNY . Joseph Machlis , developed the teaching of music appreciation to

132-538: The same way that a 12-tone set does". In 1968, Perle cofounded the Alban Berg Society with Igor Stravinsky , and Hans F. Redlich , who had the idea (according to Perle in his letter to Glen Flax of 4/1/89 ). Perle's important work on Berg includes documenting that the third act of Lulu , rather than being an unfinished sketch, was actually three-fifths complete and that the Lyric Suite contains

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144-617: Was also around this time that he had published his fourth book entitled The Listening Composer . He died aged 93 in his home in New York City in January 2009. He was buried in Calverton National Cemetery . A growing number of younger artists have come to express their appreciation for Perle. In the run-up to his 100th birthday celebrations the composer-pianist Michael Brown released a well received CD of

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