Alban Berg's achievement is based on an extraordinarily small musical output, but it includes towering masterpieces such as the operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and his last work, the Violin Concerto. These and all Berg's other substantial works are discussed in this wide-ranging Companion, which contains essays written from a variety of historical and critical perspectives, outlining the place of the music in the cultural history of its time and within the broader interplay of twentieth-century fashions, aesthetics and ideas.
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In this addition to the Cambridge Companion series, 13 essays by 11 authors provide a useful and interesting introduction to the music and personality of Alban Berg. The volume is divided into three main sections and a postscript: "Culture and Environment," "From Song to Opera," and "After Wozzeck." The essays deal with everything from "cultural politics" to Berg's compositional techniques, and the postscript tries to establish Berg's place in and influence on the history of 20th-century composition. The book suffers in places from an overly academic approach to its subject (not to mention an overly academic vocabulary), but the reasonably informed lay reader with an interest in Berg will still find it informative and helpful in understanding his music and its context.
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"In addition to being a readable and informative general study, The Cambridge Companion to Berg provides evidence that a new spirit now exists in the study of Berg and his music." Bryan R. Simms, Notes
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The effervescence of Vienna's turn-of-the-century culture, its spontaneous combustion of ideas, was an explosion of pent-up energies, of unstable ingredients long compacted under the pressure of Vienna's remarkably dense social, cultural and physical geography. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expanding interval series, aphoristic pieces, performative choice, clarinet pieces, passacaglia theme, clarinet melody, canonic technique, minor interlude, secret programme, annotated score, master array, chorale variations, quartal harmonies, interval cycles, sixth movement, basic series, feminine performance, fifth song, sonata movement, pitch sequence, short score, authorial comment, serial technique, fourth song Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lyric Suite, Chamber Concerto, Violin Concerto, Alban Berg, Der Wein, Altenberg Lieder, George Perle, Karl Kraus, Chamber Symphony, Die Fackel, Douglas Jarman, Peter Altenberg, Hanna Fuchs, Three Orchestral Pieces, Helene Berg, Frank Wedekind, Seven Early Songs, Soma Morgenstern, Und Pippa, Arnold Schoenberg, Lulu Suite, Willi Reich, Gustav Mahler, Lulu's Lied, Donald Mitchell New!
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The effervescence of Vienna's turn-of-the-century culture, its spontaneous combustion of ideas, was an explosion of pent-up energies, of unstable ingredients long compacted under the pressure of Vienna's remarkably dense social, cultural and physical geography. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expanding interval series, aphoristic pieces, performative choice, clarinet pieces, passacaglia theme, clarinet melody, canonic technique, minor interlude, secret programme, annotated score, master array, chorale variations, quartal harmonies, interval cycles, sixth movement, basic series, feminine performance, fifth song, sonata movement, pitch sequence, short score, authorial comment, serial technique, fourth song Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lyric Suite, Chamber Concerto, Violin Concerto, Alban Berg, Der Wein, Altenberg Lieder, George Perle, Karl Kraus, Chamber Symphony, Die Fackel, Douglas Jarman, Peter Altenberg, Hanna Fuchs, Three Orchestral Pieces, Helene Berg, Frank Wedekind, Seven Early Songs, Soma Morgenstern, Und Pippa, Arnold Schoenberg, Lulu Suite, Willi Reich, Gustav Mahler, Lulu's Lied, Donald Mitchell New!
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- Alban Berg by Theodor W. (Theodor Wiesengrund) Adorno on 29 pages
- The Music of Alban Berg by Douglas Jarman on 18 pages
- The Berg Companion by Douglas Jarman on 18 pages
- Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Douglas Jarman on 9 pages
- Alban Berg: Lulu (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Douglas Jarman on 9 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Mervyn Cooke in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Music, Theatre And Politics in Germany: 1848 to the Third Reich by Nikolaus Bacht on page 218, page 228, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Colin Lawson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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