Alban Berg

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521338840

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Alban Berg by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

Adorno's study of Alban Berg is a unique document. Itself now a part of music history, it is a personal account, by a pre-eminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend and composition teacher. Shortly after Berg's death in 1935, Adorno contributed several analyses to the first Berg biography. Thirty years later he incorporated these chapters and several subsequent essays into one volume. Beyond analyses of individual pieces, the book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's music, its relationship to that of other twentieth-century composers, and to the larger issues of contemporary life. This is a classic study, made available here for the first time in English, and it provides a key to understanding Adorno himself as well as offering an individual perspective on one of the major composers of the twentieth century.

Author : Christopher Hailey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400836475

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Alban Berg and His World by Christopher Hailey Pdf

An incisive new look at the pivotal modernist composer Alban Berg and His World is a collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. His allegiance to the austere rigor of Arnold Schoenberg's musical revolution was balanced by a lifelong devotion to the warm sensuousness of Viennese musical tradition and a love of lyric utterance, the emotional intensity of opera, and the expressive nuance of late-Romantic tonal practice. The essays in this collection explore the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present newly translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era. Of particular significance are the first translations of Berg's newly discovered stage work Night (Nocturne), Hermann Watznauer's intimate account of Berg's early years, and the famous memorial issue of the music periodical 23. Contributors consider Berg's fascination with palindromes and mirror images and their relationship to notions of time and identity; the Viennese roots of his distinctive orchestral style; his links to such Viennese contemporaries as Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold; and his attempts to maneuver through the perilous shoals of gender, race, and fascist politics. The contributors are Antony Beaumont, Leon Botstein, Regina Busch, Nicholas Chadwick, Mark DeVoto, Douglas Jarman, Sherry Lee, and Margaret Notley.

Author : Douglas Jarman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520326231

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The Music of Alban Berg by Douglas Jarman Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Author : David John Headlam
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300064004

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The Music of Alban Berg by David John Headlam Pdf

Headlam closely analyzes Berg's compositional technique and the use of symmetry and cycles throughout his oeuvre. He brings into the discussion Berg's own writings, as well as those of composer and musicologist George Perle; the techniques of Schoenberg, Webern, and other serialists; and aspects of pitch-class set and twelve-tone theory.

Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136522871

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Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music by Siglind Bruhn Pdf

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.

Author : Douglas Jarman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521284805

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Lulu by Douglas Jarman Pdf

This book is a guide to Berg's second opera, Lulu, written in non-technical language and intended for those students and music lovers wishing to become familiar with one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century music. Jarman presents a clear and concise introduction to the musical language and to the intricate musical and dramatic structure of Berg's opera. The volume also examines the literary background, the genesis, composition, and tortuous posthumous career of the work. The final chapters survey the performance history and suggest a possible interpretation of this complex and challenging composition. An important feature of the book is the inclusion of source documents and critical responses to the opera. Illustrated with photographs from the premiere and from recent productions, the volume also includes a synopsis, bibliography, and discography.

Author : Silvio J. dos Santos
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580464833

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Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's 'Lulu' by Silvio J. dos Santos Pdf

This book explores the crossroads between autobiographical narratives and musical composition in Alban Berg's Lulu, unveiling aspects of encoded social customs, gender identity, and personal experiences within musical structures.

Author : George Perle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Opera
ISBN : 0520066162

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The Operas of Alban Berg by George Perle Pdf

Author : George Perle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Opera
ISBN : 0520066170

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The Operas of Alban Berg by George Perle Pdf

Author : Bryan R. Simms,Charlotte Erwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190931452

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Berg by Bryan R. Simms,Charlotte Erwin Pdf

Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism. His circle included not only the musicians of the Wiener modern but also prominent literary and artistic figures from Vienna's brilliant fin-de-siècle. In his short lifetime he composed two ground-breaking operas, Wozzeck and Lulu, as well as chamber works, songs, and symphonic compositions. His final completed work, the deeply moving and elegiac Violin Concerto, is performed by leading soloists across the world. This new life-and-works study from authors Bryan R. Simms and Charlotte Erwin delivers a fresh perspective formed from comprehensive study of primary sources that reveal the forces that shaped Berg's personality, career, and artistic outlook. One such force was Berg's wife, Helene Nahowski Berg, and the book provides a unique assessment of her role in the composer's life and work, as well as her later quest to shape his artistic legacy in the forty-one years of her widowhood. The authors present insightful analysis of all of Berg's major works, bringing into play Berg's own analyses of the music, many of which have not been considered in existing scholarship. Berg is an accessible and all-encompassing resource for all readers who wish to learn about the life and music of this composer, one of the great figures in modern music.

Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 0815324804

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Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music by Siglind Bruhn Pdf

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

Author : Bryan R. Simms
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351174183

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Alban Berg by Bryan R. Simms Pdf

Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition is an annotated bibliography highlighting both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources that deal with Berg, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. It is a reliable, complete, and useful resource and a starting point for anyone—performer, teacher, student, or scholar—wanting to learn about Berg’s life, works, and cultural milieu. The third edition has 162 additional citations since the publication of the second edition, many arising after the expiration of copyright of Berg’s musical and archival works 2005. Many important new, primary sources of information have appeared, most notably the letter exchanges with his wife, recently published in a three-volume critical edition (in German), as well as letter exchanges with Alma Mahler and Erich Kleiber, and later correspondences with Anton Webern. There has also been a notable increase in the availability of commercial video recordings of Berg's operas, Wozzeck and Lulu.

Author : Patricia Hall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520365803

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A View of Berg's Lulu by Patricia Hall Pdf

After 50 years of analysis we are only beginning to understand the quality and complexity of Alban Berg's most important twelve-tone work, the opera Lulu. Patricia Hall's new book represents a primary contribution to that understanding—the first detailed analysis of the sketches for the opera as well as other related autograph material and previously inaccessible correspondence to Berg. In 1959, Berg's widow deposited the first of Berg's autograph manuscripts in the Austrian National Library. The complete collection of autographs for Lulu was made accessible to scholars in 1981, and a promising new phase in Lulu scholarship unfolded. Hall begins her study by examining the format and chronology of the sketches, and she demonstrates their unique potential to clarify aspects of Berg's compositional language. In each chapter Hall uses Berg's sketches to resolve a significant problem or controversy that has emerged in the study of Lulu. For example, Hall discusses the dramatic symbolism behind Berg's use of multiple roles and how these roles contribute to the large-scale structure of the opera. She also revises the commonly held view that Berg frequently invoked a free twelve-tone style. Hall's innovative work suggests important techniques for understanding not only the sketches and manuscripts of Berg but also those of other twentieth-century composers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Author : Karen Monson
Publisher : London : Macdonald and Jane's
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041003560

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Alban Berg by Karen Monson Pdf

Author : International Alban Berg Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015007838223

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Newsletter - International Alban Berg Society by International Alban Berg Society Pdf