Derrick Puffett on Music

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• The Analyst Speaks: Editorial: in defence of formalism
• Schenker's 'Eroica'
• Liner and Programme Notes: Wagner: overtures and orchestral music
• Richard Strauss: Tod und VerklArung and Don Quixote
• Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica and Parergon
• The 'tawdriness' of Salome
• English Music: A Nietzschean libretto: Delius and the text for A Mass of Life
• In the garden of Fand: Arnold Bax and the 'Celtic Twilight'
• The fugue from Tippett's Second String Quartet
• Tippet and the retreat from mythology
• ...an analytical offering (A.G. 1992)...on Goehr's homage to Bach
• Russian and French Music: A graphic analysis of Musorgsky's 'Catacombs'
• Eight bars of Stravinsky: the Septet revisited
• Debussy's Ostinato Machine
• Opera: Siegried in the context of Wagner's operatic writing
• Schoeck's operas: a question of genre
• Some reflections on Literaturoper
• Berg and German opera
• Salome: an introduction
• Images of Salome
• Strauss's scenario for the 'Dance of the Seven Veils'
• Salome as music drama
• Elektra: beginnings
• The music of Elektra: some preliminary thoughts
• An introduction to Der Rosenkavalier
• Vienna: Transcription and recomposition
• the strange case of Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck songs
• A notational peculiarity in early Webern and its implications
• Gone with the summer wind
• or, what Webern lost
• 'Music that echoes within one' for a lifetime: Berg's reception of Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande
• Berg, Mahler and the Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6
• German music: 'Lass er die Musi, wo sie ist': pitch specificity in Strauss
• Bruckner's way: the Adagio of the Ninth Symphony
• Sources
• Index.