There was a time in American academia when, if you wanted to attain a bachelor’s degree in musical composition, you had to display a basic competence in the music of the Second Viennese School—of the ...

American composer George Perle, a respected theorist, teacher, author and eloquent advocate for atonal music, died at his home in Manhattan Friday, Jan. 23. He was 93. Although Perle embraced the ...

A suite for multiple guitars in 4 movements. This is a project I’ve worked on for a long time. The entire suite is based on a single twelve-tone row. All the materials used and all decisions made ...

For Italian Composer Luigi Dallapiccola, 57, life has by his own testimony been “one long suffer.” The suffer is apparent in the spare, abrasively powerful twelve-tone music that has flowed steadily ...

Still refusing to limit himself to Western music’s twelve-tone scale, string-bender Neil Haverstick further explores unconventional tuning systems with a fresh batch of instrumental compositions for ...