
Berg: Violin Concerto
Anthony Pople(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 24. June 1991
Book
Hardback
131 pages
978-0-521-39066-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-39066-8 (9780521390668)
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Content
Acknowledgements; 1. Musical ideologies: style and genre in the 1930s; 2. The Bergian symbiosis: towards the Violin Concerto; 3. Composition and performance history; 4. Form, materials and programme; 5. Harmony, tonality and the series 6. Reception and critical evaluation; Notes; Select bibliography.