Alban Berg: Lulu

Contents

• List of illustrations
• General preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: chronology and background
• 2. From play to libretto
• 3. Synopsis
• 4. Posthumous history
• 5. The formal design
• 6. Melodic, harmonic and rhythmic language
• 7. Act III, scene 2, b.1146 - 1326: an analysis
• 8. A suggested interpretation
• Documents 1. Pandora's Box (1905) Karl Kraus
• 2. The case of 'Pandora's Box' (1905): From the judgement of the Berlin Royal District Court
• 3. On the 'Pandora's Box' case (1906) Frank Wedekind
• 4. A note on Act III of Lulu (1964) George Perle
• 5. The 'lost' score of the 'Symphonic Pieces from Lulu' Douglas Jarman
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Discography
• Index.