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1. Alban Berg and His World (The
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2. The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume
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3. Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's
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4. Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The
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5. Wozzeck: English National Opera
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6. Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest
 
7. Alban Berg
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8. Alban Berg: Lulu (Cambridge Opera
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9. Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Cambridge
 
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10. The Music of Alban Berg (Composers
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11. Style and Idea in the Lyric Suite
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12. The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence:
 
13. Berg Companion
 
14. Letters to His Wife
 
15. 50 Jahre Wozzeck Von Alban Berg:
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16. The Music of Alban Berg
17. Alban Berg: Le tissage et le sens
 
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18. Tonality and Atonality in Alban
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19. Alban Berg (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
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20. Alban Berg, Kammermusik (Musik-Konzepte)

1. Alban Berg and His World (The Bard Music Festival)
Paperback: 392 Pages (2010-08-29)
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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.

Bard Music Festival:

Berg and His World

Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

August 13-15, 2010 and August 20-22, 2010

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2. The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I: Wozzeck
by George Perle
Paperback: 268 Pages (1989-10-04)
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Asin: 0520066170
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5-0 out of 5 stars Detailed analysis of Berg's first opera.
The author has written perhaps the definitiveanalysis of Berg's Wozzeck. Mandatory backgound reading for true students of Berg's idoms. ... Read more


3. Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music (Border Crossings)
Hardcover: 323 Pages (1998-02-01)
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Asin: 0815324804
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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. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars In-depth study of Alban Berg's Music
This book is the most valuable study of Alban Berg's music available in English language.Each chapter in this book is written by an eminent scholar/musicologist from Austria, Canada or US.The book is the most in-depth study of this underrated member of the second Viennese School. The four parts of this volume address four aspects relating to the abilityof Berg's music to speak without words.The essays in part 1 deal withbiographical issues that may have made such expressive choices particularlyattractive to the composer.Part 2 explores various ways in whichcompositions not involving explicit verbal texts create signification,allusion, and reference, both to persons of importance in the composer'slife and to literary works.Part 3 is dedicated to Berg's song cycles, andPart 4 examines Berg's operas. Many musical examples accompany the writtentext, and informative annotations conclude each chapter.The book isuseful both to professionals and average listeners who want to betterunderstand the beautiful music of this composer.There are two othersimilar studies of 20th century composers that can compare to this volumeand they are Olivier Messiaen by Samuel and Henri Dutilleux by CarolinePotter. ... Read more


4. Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters
by Constantin Floros, Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch
Hardcover: 168 Pages (2007-12-05)
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In the fall of 1976, 14 letters by Alban Berg, renowned composer of the Second Viennese School, were discovered in the posthumous papers of Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, wife of a Prague industrialist and sister of Franz Werfel, the well-known Austro-Czech writer. In the 1920s Berg gained international notoriety with his opera Wozzeck and the Lyric Suite, which was largely inspired by his relationship with Fuchs.

The secret letters were delivered to Hanna surreptitiously by Theodor Adorno and Alma Mahler Werfel. They were brought to New York by Hanna on her flight from Nazi persecution, and were eventually found in her estate after her death. First discovered by George Perle, then deciphered and transcribed in German by Constantin Floros, they appear here in English for the first time. ... Read more


5. Wozzeck: English National Opera Guide 42 (English National Opera Guides)
by Berg
Paperback: 116 Pages (1990-12-01)
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In 1972 Elias Canetti said: 'with Wozzeckm Buchner achieved the most complete revolution in the whole of literature'. The same can be said of Berg's opera, as revolutionary in the history of music in our century as in opera in particular. Mark DeVoto and Theo Hirsbrunner discuss why this infinitely complex and formal score perfectly suits the confused and disordered nature of the play. In his famous essay about the opera (written in 1968, but given here for the first time in English) Theador Adorno shows how what seems fragmentory in the text is actually complete, and how the music responds to the words; Kenneth Segar offers a new interpretation of the play in the light of the most recent Buchner research. Also for the first time, the complete edition of the play as Berg knew it is set out with a translation so that readers can see not only what he kept for his liberetto but also what he omitted. This unique source material is complemented by a series of critical reactions to the first London production in 1952 illustrating the controversy which has surrounded the opera since its 1925 Berlin premiere, and the extent to which our aesthetics have changed over the last forty years.
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6. Alban Berg: Master of the Smallest Link
by Theodor W. Adorno
Paperback: 176 Pages (1994-11-25)
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Adorno's study of Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) is a sui generis document. In addition to Adorno's personal account of of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend, and composition teacher, the book explores the historical and cultural significance of Berg's music, its relationship to that of other nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, and to the larger issues of contemporary life. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! ....simply...
This is the definitive work on Berg I believe. This is Adorno at his best. You might already know that Adorno is notoriously difficult to read- as in his Philosophy of Western Music- but this is wonderful.

5-0 out of 5 stars not entirely vintage Adorno,yet lightyears beyond academia
Adorno first met Alban Berg in Frankfurt during a festival of new music in June 1924. Excerpts from Berg's opera "Wozzeck" was being performed.Adorno ultimately studied composition with Berg but did notpursue a career as a composer rather Adornorbecame a brilliantphilosopher of negative dialiectics with a profound work on aesthetics,hislast major statement. In these short essays on Berg written over the courseof his life, Adorno is at his weakest link. They are analytical in contenttraversing all of Berg.The "First Piano Sonata", The"LyricSuite" for string quartet. Although brilliant, the complexity ofthought we usually encounter in Adorno, dense loci of continuouscross-referencing, and associations of images interspersed with otherartisitic genres is not to be found here. And in terms of pure musicalanalysis this is fairly basic representations,and ultimately not Adorno'spossessive thinking realm.Academia today hates Adorno for his philosophicalmore socially-bound emphasis away from just this kind of note-for-note,moment-to-moment analysis along Schenkerian dimensions. Still there areconceptual meeting places in the center as George Perle's excellent work onthe two Berg operas. And academia has much to fear given Adorno'simpressive legacy of his writings on music . In this brief volume Adorno'sthoughts on Berg's opera "Lulu" is the high point.And in a way wemeet the more personal,conversational Adorno, a rare treat. ... Read more


7. Alban Berg
by Willi Reich
 Paperback: 239 Pages (1974)

Isbn: 0844300780
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8. Alban Berg: Lulu (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)
by Douglas Jarman
Paperback: 172 Pages (1991-02-22)
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This book is the first 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. ... Read more


9. Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)
by Douglas Jarman
Paperback: 192 Pages (1989-06-30)
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Alban Berg's Wozzeck is one of the most significant operas of the twentieth century. Douglas Jarman's study provides a clear and accessible introduction to this work, placing it in the context of the radical developments in musical language during the early decades of the century and of the development of Berg's own musical style. The book covers all aspects of the work. Early chapters are devoted to the history and discovery of the Buchner play Woyzeck on which Berg based the libretto and to the background and composition of the opera. A detailed synopsis takes the reader through the events on stage in relation to the structured musical effects. Particular attention is given in the subsequent chapter to the unique dramatic and musical design of the opera. In offering a possible interpretation of the work Douglas Jarman considers this closely organized structure in relation to the expressionistic language of the music. A final chapter charts the performances of the opera, in particular early productions, which are illustrated with many hitherto unpublished photographs from Berg's own lifetime. An important feature of the book is the inclusion of many important and otherwise unobtainable contemporary documents concerned with the play and the opera, includine Karl Emil Franzos's description of the reconstruction of the fragmented Buchner play and three commentaries by Berg himself on the opera. This comprehensive guide will be invaluable to the student and opera-goer wishing to unravel the musical and dramatic complecities of this important work. ... Read more


10. The Music of Alban Berg (Composers of the Twentieth Century Serie)
by Dave Headlam
 Hardcover: 472 Pages (1996-09-25)
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In this sophisticated analysis of the music of Austrian composer Alban Berg, Dave Headlam charts Berg`s development from late-romantic tonality to atonality and finally to his own distinctive dodecaphonic language. In so doing, Headlam defines Berg`s musical language and brings to light the compositional continuity that underlies all of his works. ... Read more


11. Style and Idea in the Lyric Suite of Alban Berg (Ex)
by George Perle
Paperback: 112 Pages (2001-10)
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12. The Berg-Schoenberg Correspondence: Selected Letters
Paperback: 528 Pages (1987-10-01)
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Few figures have influenced 20th-century music as much as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. Their letters, one of the most important sources of information about the background to their music, are here published for the first time. The editors have transcribed, translated and annotated more than 800 letters and from this vast body of material have selected 370 that reflect the lives and times of these two great composers. The letters reveal much about the relationship between Berg and Schoenberg: first as pupil and teacher, then as friends and finally, after the premier of Wozzeck, as colleagues and peers. They also shed light on the reasons for Schoenberg's move to Berlin in 1911, the intrigue behind the early demise of the Society for Private Musical Performance, and Schoenberg's feigned indifference to the success of Wozzeck. Schoenberg describes his first years in America and the correspondence ends with Berg's death in 1935. The letters are fully annotated and supplemented with appendices, facsimiles and many photographs. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Money, schedules, and sniping
This is a thick book containing a selection of letters between Berg and Schoenberg.Berg wrote several letters for each reply from Schoenberg, so this book sheds more light on Berg and his personality than on Schoenberg.There is very little substantive discussion of musical matters in these letters.Overwhelmingly, they concern mundane issues:money worries, rehearsal schedules and performer selections, "thank you's" for gifts received, and such.Nevertheless, they are surprisingly engaging reading.Through these letters, one sees Berg grow from an obsequious student wasting away his time in 'dreaming' (as Schoenberg eventually chides him), to an internationally acclaimed composer (following the immediate success of 'Wozzeck').

A few gripes about this book:(1) Extensive footnotes are provided identifying every last minor person mentioned in every letter and providing other ephemeral detail, but not enough information is given tying the letters to the authors' biographies and the rest of their circles.For example, a pivotal moment in Berg and Schoenberg's relationship came when Schoenberg finally offered Berg the informal "du" to replace the formal German "Sie."It would have been interesting to know some surrounding facts, such as when/whether Schoenberg and Webern entered the "du" phase of their friendship, and in general how wide Schoenberg's circle of "du friends" was.Contextual information like this is seldom provided anywhere in this book.(2) In the few places where Berg or Schoenberg included a musical example in a letter, these are reproduced as copies from the original.These copies are seldom legible, despite being key parts of the book.(3)A useful table converting Austian currency into dollars and pounds is provided -- especially helpful since so many of the letter are about money.However, since Schoenberg was living in Germany, not Austria, for much of the period covered by this correspondence, the lack of a comparable table for the German mark leaves a gap.(4) Although the editors claim not to have left out or cut anything in the correspondence concerning musical matters, in fact discussions about music editorial matters (e.g., fixing errors in various scores) are abbreviated considerably.

In general, only those with a fairly deep interest in the Second Viennese School will be interested in this book.However, since the letters are provided only in translation, and with much material cut, I suspect this is not a book to appeal to scholars. ... Read more


13. Berg Companion
by Douglas Jarman
 Hardcover: 352 Pages (1990-12-15)
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Isbn: 1555530680
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14. Letters to His Wife
by Alban Berg
 Hardcover: 456 Pages (1971-02)

Isbn: 0571083951
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15. 50 Jahre Wozzeck Von Alban Berg: Vorgeschichte U. Auswirkungen in D. Opernasthetik: [Beitrage Eines Symposions, 22.-24. Nov. 1975 (Rechtspraxis)
 Paperback: 146 Pages (1978-01)

Isbn: 370240130X
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16. The Music of Alban Berg
by Douglas Jarman
Paperback: 266 Pages (1985-08)
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17. Alban Berg: Le tissage et le sens (Collection Musique et musicologie) (French Edition)
by Jean-Paul Olive
Paperback: 217 Pages (1997)

Isbn: 273845013X
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18. Tonality and Atonality in Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op. 2 (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music)
by Gary R. Tucker
 Hardcover: 152 Pages (2001-07)
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Alban Berg's "Four Songs", op.2 lies exactly at the boundary between "tonal" and "atonal" means of pitch organization, a boundary often taken as central to the understanding of 20th-century music. This study offers a look at the conceptions of those categories and traces their development. ... Read more


19. Alban Berg (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
by Bryan Simms
Hardcover: 336 Pages (2009-06-18)
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Asin: 0415994624
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Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. The second edition will include research published since the publication of the first edition and provide electronic resources. ... Read more


20. Alban Berg, Kammermusik (Musik-Konzepte) (German Edition)
Perfect Paperback: 2 Pages (1978)
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