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[![](https://focieetm50po36w.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/9781580464130.jpg)](https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781580464130/a-dance-of-polar-opposites/)George Rochberg: *A Dance of Polar Opposites*, edited and with an introduction by Jeremy Gill

Published by University of Rochester Press, 2012

In *A Dance of Polar Opposites: The Continuing Transformation of Our Musical Language*, the renowned American composer George Rochberg distilled a lifetime of insights about Western music across some three hundred years. Rochberg describes how the asymmetrical tonal language of the late eighteenth century-the era of Haydn and Mozart-evolved, through the gradual incursion of symmetry, into a system based on the juxtaposition of tonal and atonal, asymmetrical and symmetrical-as seen in notable composers such as Webern, Prokofiev, and Rochberg himself. *A Dance of Polar Opposites* takes us inside the composer’s studio, reveals how he assessed his and our musical past, and paints a picture of what he believed our musical future may be.

Available from [University of Rochester Press](https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781580464130/a-dance-of-polar-opposites/), [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Polar-Opposites-Continuing-Transformation/dp/1580464130), etc.