George Perle
American composer
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 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.
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Works
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- Ballade
- Concertino for Piano, Winds and Timpani
- Critical Moments 2
- Critical Moments 2: I. Dotted eighth note = 120
- Critical Moments 2: II. Quarter note: 104
- Critical Moments 2: III. Eighth note = 88
- Critical Moments 2: IV. Eighth note = 112
- Critical Moments 2: IX. Dotted eighth note = 126
- Critical Moments 2: V. Quarter note = 88
- Critical Moments 2: VI. Dotted quarter note = 112
- Critical Moments 2: VII. Quarter note = 44
- Critical Moments 2: VIII. Quarter note = 63
- Hebrew Melodies for Unaccompanied Cello
- Hebrew Melodies: I. Psalm 93
- Hebrew Melodies: II. Cantillation
- Lyric Intermezzo
- Lyric Intermezzo: I. Andante
- Lyric Intermezzo: II. Grazioso
- Lyric Intermezzo: III. Rondoletto
- Lyric Intermezzo: IV. Fantasy variations
- Lyric Intermezzo: V. Postlude
- Molto adagio
- Monody II
- Musical Offerings for Left Hand Alone (in celebration of Leon Fleischer at 70)
- Musical Offerings: I.
- Musical Offerings: II.
- Musical Offerings: III.
- Serenade no. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
- Serenade no. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra: I. Allegro
- Serenade no. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra: II. Burlesco
- Serenade no. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra: III. Elegy, In Memory of Balanchine
- Serenade no. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra: IV. Perpetuum mobile
- Serenade no. 3 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra: V. Finale
- Sonatina
- Sonatina: I. Allegretto
- Sonatina: II. Molto adagio
- Sonatina: III. Allegro
- Songs of Praise and Lamentation: II. Sonnets to Orpheus
- String Quartet no. 2 in D minor, op. 14
- String Quartet no. 2 in D minor, op. 14: I. Moderato
- String Quartet no. 2 in D minor, op. 14: II. —
- String Quartet no. 2 in D minor, op. 14: III. —
- String Quartet no. 5
- String Quartet no. 5: I. Half note = 92-96
- String Quartet no. 5: II. Quarter note = 132
- String Quartet no. 5: III. Quarter note = 80
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: Beauty – be not caused – it is
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: I Like to see it lap the miles
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: I know some lonely houses off the road
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: If I'm lost – now
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: She bore it till the simple veins
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: The heart asks – pleasure first
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: The loneliness one dare not sound
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: The wind – tapped like a tired man
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: There came a wind like a bugle
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: These are the days when birds come back
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: Under the light, yet under
- Thirteen Dickinson Songs: What if I shall not wait
- Transcendental Modulations
- Wind Quintet no. 4
- Windows of Order (String Quartet no. 8)