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9780815324805

Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music

by Bruhn,Siglind; Bruhn,Siglind
  • ISBN13:

    9780815324805

  • ISBN10:

    0815324804

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-02-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The 12 new essays in this volume explore the relationship between text and music in Alban Berg's works. The book examines the biographical issues that made such expressive choices attractive to the composer, and explores ways in which works not involving explicit verbal texts create signification, allusion, and reference.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface vii(8)
Editor's Introduction xv
Part One On Messages and Codes, Shared and Private
John Covach
Balzacian Mysticism, Palindromic Design, and Heavenly Time in Berg's Music
Wolfgang Gratzer
Alban Berg and the History of the Commentary
31(14)
Part Two Encoding in Berg's Instrumental Compositions
Gottfried Scholz
More on Secret Programs in Berg's Instrumental Music
David Schroeder
Berg's Kammerkonzert and Franz Werfel's Spiegelmensch: Mirror Images in Music and Literature
Robert Falck
Two Reigen: Berg, Schnitzler, and Cyclic Form
91(18)
Part Three Sleep and the Inner Journey: Berg's Song Cycles 109(120)
Magnar Breivik
The Representation of Sleep and Death in Berg's Piano Songs, op.2
Christoph Khittl
The Other Altenberg Song Cycle: A Document of Viennese Fin-de-Siecle Aesthetics
Siglind Bruhn
Symbolism and Self-Quotation in Berg's Picture Postcard Songs
Arved Ashby
Singing the Aphoristic Text: Berg's Altenberg-Lieder
191(38)
Part Four Subtext and Subliminal Characterization in Berg's Operas
Erika Reiman
Tonality and Unreality in Berg's Wozzeck
Mark DeVoto
The Death Leitmotif in Wozzeck and Lulu
Karen Pegley
Femme Fatale and Lesbian Representation in Alban Berg's Lulu
Heather Platt
A Jungian Analysis of Berg's Alwa
279(26)
The Contributors 305

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