The Cambridge Companion to Berg

A wide-ranging Companion to the work of Alban Berg.

List of contents

Chronology; Introduction; Part I. Culture and Environment: 1. Defining home: Berg's life on the periphery Christopher Hailey; 2. Battles of the mind: Berg and the cultural politics of 'Vienna 1900' Andrew Barker; 3. Berg and Adorno Raymond Geuss; Part II. From Song to Opera: 4. Early works: tonality and beyond Anthony Pople; 5. Berg's aphoristic pieces Kathryn Bailey; 6. Berg, Mahler and the Three Orchestral Pieces, Op.6 Derrick Puffett; 7. The musical language of Wozzeck Anthony Pople; Part III. After Wozzeck: 8. Secret programmes Douglas Jarman; 9. Compositional process in Wozzeck and Lulu: a glimpse of Berg's atonal method Patricia Hall; 10. Compositional technique 1923-6: the Chamber Concerto and the Lyric Suite Neil Boynton; 11. In the orbit of Lulu: the late works Anthony Pople; 12. Lulu's feminine performance Judy Lochhead; Part IV. Postscript: Berg and the twentieth century Arnold Whittall.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jonathan Cross (Editor), Anthony Pople (Editor), Anthony (University of Nottingham) Pople (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521563741
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56374-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 803 g
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history