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The Operas of Alban Berg, Volume II - Lulu (Paperback, Revised)
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"The first volume of Perle's magnificent study focused on Wozuck
...Its successor, equally painstaking and perceptive, is if
anything more invaluable, for the clouds of mystery around Berg's
second opera are only now beginning to disperse, and the work is
coming to be regarded properly as the climax of the composer's
achievement." (Andrew Clements, Opera). "Perle's books have laid
the groundwork for a thorough exploration of the remarkably
successful ways in which Berg was able to marry a powerful
intellectual grasp of a richly developing language to an
instinctive feel for dramatic shape, a process that marks him out
as one of the few genuine opera composers this century." (Michael
Taylor, Music and Letters). "The first volume, Wozzeck ...was
universally recognized as being a work of outstanding scholarship.
The Lulu volume is an even more impressive achievement. In its
analytical sophistication, its critical insights and in the
implications which it has for our understanding not only of Berg
but of a whole body of post-diatonic music, Perle's Lulu is one of
the most exciting and important books on music to appear for many
years." (Douglas Jarman, Times Literary Supplement). "With the
second of his books on The Operas of Alban Berg, this American
musicologist and composer has now taken advantage of all this new
material to consolidate his own research and present us with the
most sophisticated musical analysis yet made of the composer ...As
Perle shows, Lulu represents the highest point of development in
Berg's music from the point of view of ambiguity of fabrication."
(Stephen Reeve, Classical Music). "Nothing I've read in the past
year makes as important a contribution to this literature as The
Operas of Alban Berg: Volume Two: Lulu ...Perle's saga of the
opera's release from partial captivity reads like one of the great
intellectual detective stories of our era ...What emerges most
flavorfully is Perle's portrait of a haunted artist who imbued his
later works with concealed autobiographical gestures, including his
longtime love affair with a Prague matron." (Ailan Ulrich, San
Francisco Focus). "The goal of the two-volume work is not merely to
dwell in detail on the operas themselves, but to give some account
of Berg's other music, in order to set the operas in the context of
his complete output. With a composer like Berg, whose music is
intimately bound up with his own personal life, such an approach is
particularly appropriate ...George Perle has given the world two
volumes which will remain at the top of their field for many years
to come." (Douglass M. Green, Journal of the American Musicological
Society).
General
Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 1989 |
First published: |
1986 |
Authors: |
George Perle
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Dimensions: |
254 x 191 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
352 |
Edition: |
Revised |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-06616-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Theatre, drama >
Opera
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LSN: |
0-520-06616-2 |
Barcode: |
9780520066168 |
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