Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music

Herausgeber: Bruhn, Siglind

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780815324805
• ISBN-10: 0815324804
• Artikelnr.: 22103942

Autorenporträt

Siglind Bruhn

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Siglind Bruhn * On Messages and Codes
Shared and Private Balzacian Mysticism
Palindromic Design
and Heavenly Tim in Berg's Music
John Covach * Alban Berg and the History of the Commentary
Wolfgang Gratzer * Encoding in Berg's Instrumental Compositions * More on Secret Programs in Berg's Instrumental Music
Gottfried Scholz * Berg's Kammerkonzert and Franz Werfel's Spiegelmensch: Mirror Images in Music and Literature
David Schroeder * Two Reigen: Berg
Schnitzler
and Cyclic Form
Robert Falck * Sleep and the Inner Journey: Berg's Song Cycles * The Representation of Sleep and Death in Berg's Piano Songs
op. 2
Magnar Breivik * The Other Altenberg Song Cycle: A Document of Viennese Fin-de-Si cle Aeshetics
Christoph Khittl * Symbolism and Self-Quotation in Berg's Picture Postcard Songs
Siglind Bruhn * Singing the Aphoristic Text: Berg's Altenberg-Lieder
Arved Ashby * Subtext and Subliminal Characteriziation in Berg's Operas * Tonality and Unreality in Berg's Wozzeck
Erika Reiman * The Death Leitmotif in Wozzeck and Lulu
Mark DeVoto * Femme Fatale and Lesbian Representation in alban Berg's Lulu
Karen Pegly * A Jungian Analysis of Berg's Alwa
Heather Platt