George Perle, the American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music, has died. He was 93. Perle died Jan. 23 at his home in New York City ...

I can imagine readers thinking to themselves what a nonsensical title this post bears – atonal music as a model for democracy? Really? What possible connection could there be? And yet, someone ...

The 21st is the second century for music conservatories and contemporary concert composers to put forth the notion that atonal music is preferable to the tonal music that defined western civilization ...

Alfred Carlson, 85, a composer of atonal music for chamber orchestras and other small groups, died July 29 in Los Angeles of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born in Chicago and brought up in ...

George Perle, 93, the American music theorist and scholar who was widely regarded as the composer who put a human face on atonal music, died Jan. 23 at his home in New York after a long illness, ...

Everfelt as though a piece of music is speaking to you? You could be right: musical notes are strung together in the same patterns as words in a piece of literature, according to an Argentinian ...

A cycle of piano concertos by Ernst Krenek won't be on many people's shopping lists, but Volume 1 in this series was unexpectedly absorbing. All hail its successor, which contains just one piano ...

Scholar, theorist and composer George Perle, always highly regarded by his peers, began to draw wider public attention only after he won a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship in 1986. The American ...