Berg, Violin concerto / Anthony Pople.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pople, Anthony, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Cambridge music handbooks.

Cambridge music handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935. Concerto--violin, orchestra.

Berg, Alban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 121 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Described by Aaron Copland as 'among the finest creations in the modern repertoire', Alban Berg's Violin Concerto has become a twentieth-century classic. In this authoritative and highly readable guide to the work the reader is introduced not only to the concerto itself but to all that surrounded and determined its composition. This is a book about musical culture in the 1930s, about the Second Viennese School, about tonality, atonality and serialism, about Berg's own musical development, compositional method and the private significance the Violin Concerto held for him. The book describes the genesis of the work, its performance history and critical reception and, in two detailed musical chapters, provides a section-by-section account of the book and a closer analysis of the musical language and structure. Anthony Pople's ability to combine musical anecdote with scholarly discussion makes this guide compelling reading for the amateur and the specialist alike.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chronology

Biographical notes

Bibliographical notes

Note on the texts

A Defence and True Declaration (1570)

Address and Opening (1576)

Brief Discourse (1579)

Political Education (1582)

Short Exposition (1587)

Index

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781139085816

1139085816

9780511611674

0511611676

OCLC:

935276507

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07587 hdl