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267:: "in the quartet, as in Berger's earlier works, and in most of the great music of our Western heritage, timbre, texture, dynamics, rhythm, and form are elements of a musical language whose syntax and grammar are essentially derived from pitch relations. If these elements never seem specious and arbitrary, as they do with so many of the dodecaphonic productions that deluge us today from both the left and right, it is precisely because of the authenticity and integrity of his musical thinking at this basic level." 156: 1072: 567: 43: 63: 345:, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone, The Perspectives of New Music Series; Norton Library, no. 549 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971): p.231. 256:
has described his "keen and sophisticated musical intellect" and praised "his serial music as far removed from current fashionable trends as his
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International who's who in music and musician's directory. In the classical and light classical fields
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Harvard composers. Walter Piston and his students, from Elliott Carter to Frederic Rzewski
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Silver, Sheila. "Pitch and Registral Distribution in Arthur Berger's Music for Piano",
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His works show a preoccupation with vertical and horizontal musical space (see
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A History of Keyboard Literature. Music for the Piano and its Forerunners
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5, no. 1 (Autumn–Winter, 1966), pp.75-92; citation on p.76. Reprinted in
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John Mac Ivor Perkins, "Arthur Berger: The Composer as Mannerist",
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Jones, Pamela. "A Bibliography of the Writings of Arthur Berger".
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in his "Problems of Pitch Organization in Stravinsky". He died in
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Lister, Rodney. "Arthur Berger: The Progress of a Method",
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Northcott, Bayan. "Arthur Berger: An Introduction at 70",
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Contemporary American Composers. A Biographical Dictionary
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Professor Emeritus. His notable students there included
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Coppock, Jane. "A Conversation with Arthur Berger".
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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He taught occasionally at the 1023:20th-century American composers 501:, 123 (1982), pp. 323–326. 1053:American expatriates in France 540:Arthur Berger Official Website 401: 348: 331: 77:, then worked briefly at the 46:, as a graduate student under 1: 561:has an article about Berger: 511:Press, Jaques Cattell (Ed.). 487:, 13-1, 1995, pp. 56–95. 354:Robert Morse Crunden (2000). 324: 1058:Composers from New York City 1038:American classical composers 580:Interview with Arthur Berger 260:music was a few years ago." 29: 7: 1063:Brandeis University faculty 10: 1129: 1098:University of Paris alumni 1093:New York University alumni 297:Berger is grouped in the " 263:Perle further praises his 1078:Harvard University alumni 726: 623: 563:Remembering Arthur Berger 520:Perspectives of New Music 494:, J. D. 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New York City
New York University
Young Composer's Group
Walter Piston
Harvard
Nadia Boulanger
Sorbonne
Paine Fellowship
Mills College
Brooklyn College
New York Sun
New York Herald Tribune
Brandeis University
Irving Fine
Gustav Ciamaga
Richard Wernick
New England Conservatory
Perspectives of New Music
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Aaron Copland
octatonic scale
pitch centricity
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