A view of Berg's Lulu through the autograph sources / Patricia Hall.

Author/creator Hall, Patricia
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxi, 184 pages : facsimiles, music ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Berg's sketches: format and compositional process -- Chronology of the autograph sources -- The interaction of role and form -- Derivational unfoldings: the case of Dr. Schon -- The progress of a method: Berg's tone rows for Lulu -- Why is Berg's twelve-tone music so difficult to analyze?
Abstract After fifty years of analysis we are only beginning to understand the quality and complexity of Alban Berg's most important twelve-tone work, the opera Lulu. In 1959 Berg's widow deposited the first of Berg's autograph manuscripts in the Austrian National Library. The complete collection of autographs for Lulu was made accessible to scholars in 1981, beginning a promising new phase in Lulu scholarship. The author's study represents the first detailed analysis of the sketches for the opera, as well as other related autograph material and correspondence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.
LCCN 95040543
ISBN0520088190 (alk. paper)