Table of Contents

Preface to the Sixth Edition 
Preface to the Fifth Edition 

I Tonality, Atonality, Dodecaphony 
II ''Free" Atonality 
III Nondodecaphonic Sets 
IV Motiuic Functions of the Set 
V Simultaneity 
VI Structural Functions of the Set 

Appendix 
Index to Basic Definitions 
Index to Compositions

About the Author

George Perle, one of this country's most respected composers, theorists, and critics, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His writings on twentieth-century music include The Listening Composer (1990), The Operas of Alban Berg (1980, 1984), and Twelve-Tone Tonality (1977), all available from the University of California Press.

Reviews

"The best description in any language of twelve-tone techniques as developed by their originators."--"Notes