Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II - Lulu

List of contents

List of Illustrations 
More Acknowledgments 
ONE. From Wozzeck to Lulu 
TWO. The Lulu Plays and the Libretto 
THREE. The Formal Design 
FOUR. The Musical Language of Lulu 
FIVE. The Last Years 
SIX. "Eins nach dem Andern" 
Bibliography 
General Index 
Index of Examples

About the author

George Perle is a distinguished composer and Professor Emeritus of Music at the City University of New York. His books include Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern (Sixth Edition, California, 1991); The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume 1, Wozzeck (California, 1980) and Volume 2, Lulu (California, 1985); and The Listening Composer (California, 1990). He has been a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Summary

In its analytical sophistication, its critical insights and in the implications which it has for our understanding not only of Alban Berg but of a whole body of post-diatonic music, this title presents us with a sophisticated musical analysis of the composer.

Product details

• Authors: Berle, G. Perle, George Perle, Perle George, George Perly
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.1989
• EAN: 9780520066168
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06616-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Operas of Alban Berg
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera