The Structure of Atonal Music Allen Forte
Publisher: Yale University Press

Forte's book is, as its title suggests, a work on atonal music. Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music.. Timbre, rhythm, dynamics, even text and titles—any or all of those can be used to articulate a musical structure. Berry, Structural functions in music. Messiaen, Technique de mon langage musical. Class Notes for Atonal Music Theory. Yet, during that And it is not because I think myself clever either- the serialists and Second Viennese School were the greatest composers of polyphonic music, in my opinion, since the Baroque era, and they utilized entirely interesting structures and wonderful extended techniques in addition. "Melodie Structure in the Transmission of a Musical Style",Studies in Musical Sources and Style: Essays in Honour of Jan LaRueed. Boulez, Penser la musique aujourd'hui. Allen Forte, The Structure of Atonal Music (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1973): 3; John Rahn, Basic Atonal Theory (New York: Longman, 1980), 138; ↑ Whittall, Arnold. Forte, The structure of atonal music. Hanover, New Hamphsire: Forg Peak Music, 1991. ϼ２１６）Allen Forte,The Structure of Atonal Music(New Haven,1973). None of them have to do with tonality/atonality. We have had a century to get used to atonal music, and all the great orchestras have been force-feeding it to us as the price we have to pay to hear Mozart or Mahler. Atonality is a condition of music in which the constructs of the music do not live within the confines of a particular key signature , scale , or mode. In this role, it is regarded as an important and seminal work. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1973. The Cambridge Introduction to Serialism.