The Cambridge Companion to Berg
- Editor: Pople, Anthony
offers an ideal introduction for the general musical reader to the music itself —
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Contents
- Chronology; Introduction;
- Part I . Culture and Environment:
- 1. Defining home: Berg's life on the periphery Christopher Hailey;
- 2. Battles of the mind: Berg and the cultural politics of 'Vienna 1900' Andrew Barker;
- 3. Berg and Adorno Raymond Geuss;
- Part II . From Song to Opera:
- 4. Early works: tonality and beyond Anthony Pople;
- 5. Berg's aphoristic pieces Kathryn Bailey;
- 6. Berg, Mahler and the Three Orchestral Pieces, Op.6 Derrick Puffett;
- 7. The musical language of Wozzeck Anthony Pople;
- Part III . After Wozzeck:
- 8. Secret programmes Douglas Jarman;
- 9. Compositional process in Wozzeck and Lulu: a glimpse of Berg's atonal method Patricia Hall;
- 10. Compositional technique 1923-6: the Chamber Concerto and the Lyric Suite Neil Boynton;
- 11. In the orbit of Lulu: the late works Anthony Pople;
- 12. Lulu's feminine performance Judy Lochhead;
- Part IV . Postscript: Berg and the twentieth century Arnold Whittall.