By: Joseph Straus , CUNY Graduate Center
Abstract of Video:
In his later years, Aaron Copland explored some of the possibilities of twelve-tone and serial composition. Inscape (1967) is based on two twelve-tone series which are the source of both clangorous, dissonant twelve-note chords and spare, consonant instrumental duets.
Bibliography:
Joseph N. Straus, Twelve-Tone Music in America (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis, Copland Since 1943 (St. Martin’s Press, 1989).
About the Author:
Joseph Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center. With a specialization in music since 1900, he has written numerous technical music-theoretical articles and scholarly monographs on a variety of topics in modernist music, including Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1990), The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Twelve-Tone Music in America (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is also the author of Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (4th ed., Norton, 2016).