Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg
- Editor: Simms, Bryan
The scholarship is outstanding; Simms's commentaries on the articles furnish excellent background, and his footnotes are erudite and comprehensive —
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Contents
- Introduction
- THE SCHOENBERG GUIDES
- Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder: Guide
- Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony, Op. 9: Thematic Analysis
- Pelleas and Melisande (after the drama by Maurice Maeterlinck). Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, by Arnold Schoenberg, Op. 5: Thematic Analysis
- Pelleas and Melisande (after the drama by Maurice Maeterlinck). Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, by Arnold Schoenberg, Op. 5: Brief Thematic Analysis
- Commentary on the Schoenberg Guides
- ESSAYS, LECTURES, AND ANALYSES
- The Musical Impotence of Hans Pfitzner's Die neue Aesthetik
- Vienna's Music Criticism: Two Feuilletons
- The Musical Forms in My Opera Wozzeck
- Why Is Schoenberg's Music So Difficult to Understand?
- Alban Berg's Chamber Concerto: An Open Letter
- Committed Response to a Noncommittal Survey
- Two Analyses of the Lyric Suite
- Composition with Twelve Tones
- Nine Pages on the Lyric Suite
- Introducing Ernst Krenek
- The Problem of Opera: Pro Mundo - Pro Domo
- Voice in Opera
- What Is Atonal? A Dialog
- Lecture on Wozzeck: The Atonal Opera
- Credo
- A Few Remarks on Staging the Opera Wozzeck
- Commemorative Address for Emil Hertzka
- Commentary on Essays, Lectures, and Analyses
- TRIBUTES
- The Teacher
- On Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra
- On the Hundredth Anniversary of Franz Schubert's Death
- For Adolf Loos: Double Acrostic Distich for the Tenth of December
- On Winfried Zillig
- To Karl Kraus
- Handel and Bach
- Faith, Hope, and Love: For Schoenberg's Sixtieth Birthday
- Commentary on Tributes
- INTERVIEWS
- With the Composer of Wozzeck: A Conversation with Alban Berg, by Carl Marilaun
- A Chat with Alban Berg, by Oskar Baum
- Conversation with Alban Berg: Impressions from a Wozzeck Performance in Leningrad, by Iron
- A Conversation with Alban Berg, by Oskar Jancke
- Critique of the Critique: Conversation with Alban Berg and Clemens Krauss, by Otto Konig
- We spoke today with Alban Berg. . .
- Commentary on Interviews
- FICTIONAL WORKS
- Hanna
- A Mining Drama
- Night (Nocturne): Preliminary Plan, Notes for the Monodrama
- Commentary on Fictional Works
- MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS
- An Appeal for Schoenberg
- On Mahler's Ninth Symphony
- Two Prospectuses for the Society for Private Musical Performances
- Letter from Vienna
- Questions About Jazz
- Opera Theater
- On Reopening the Vienna Volksoper
- Should Wagner Stagings Be Modernized?
- On Composition with Twelve-Tone Rows
- Commentary on Miscellaneous Writings