There was a time in American academia when, if you wanted to attain a bachelor’s degree in musical composition, you had to display a basic competence in the music of the Second Viennese School—of the ...

American composer George Rochberg, one of the central figures in the 1970s revolt against the modernist 12-tone technique of composition, died Sunday of complications after surgery May 2. He was 86.

The Pacific Palisades fire has burned down the inventory of the exclusive publisher of the works of musical pioneer Arnold Schoenberg, inventor of the 12-tone technique. Among the most significant ...