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• See: Allen Forte
• See: Allen Forte
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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.
— George Perle
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• See: Allen Forte" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "George Perle" (Quotes, The Listening Composer: The edition cited here is The Listening Composer (University of California Press, 1990) .)
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About George Perle
George Perle (May 6, 1915 – January 23, 2009) was a composer and music theorist.
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