George Perle

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George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne, New Jersey; died January 23, 2009 in Manhattan) is a composer and music theorist. A student of Ernst Krenek, Perle composes with a technique of his own devising called "twelve-tone tonality," which is different from, but related to, twelve-tone technique (Perle, 1992). Perle's former student Paul Lansky describes it thus: "Basically this creates a hierarchy among the notes of the chromatic scale so that they <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/George+Per

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5 total works indexed

1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

   · 2007 · cited 79,651x

2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 47,778x

3. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

   · 2015 · cited 40,049x

4. <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination

   · 2015 · cited 26,949x

5. A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity

   · 1961 · cited 23,020x

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• “His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century.”
• “I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.”
• “This intersecting of inherently non-symmetrical diatonic elements with inherently non-diatonic symmetrical elements seems to me the defining principle of the musical language of Le Sacre and the source of the unparalleled tension and conflicted energy of the work.”
• “Every bit of theorizing I’ve ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.”

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