The operas of Alban Berg. Volume 1, Wozzeck /

"Of the greatest significance . . . . The first volume of George Perle's two volume study on the two operas of Alban Berg ... is one of those few works of scholarship and analysis you can label 'definitive'; it may in time be supplemented, but not superseded."--Richard Dyer,...

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Main Author: Perle, George, 1915-2009 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Edition:Reprint 2020.
Series:The Operas of Alban Berg ; Volume 1
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Table of Contents:
  • From the early songs to Wozzeck
  • Woyzeck and Wozzeck
  • The text and formal design
  • Representation and symbol in the music of Wozzeck
  • The musical language of Wozzeck
  • "Eins nach dem Andern"
  • Appendix I: "The preparation and staging of Wozzeck"
  • Appendix II: The Landau edition.