Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music Border Crossings Series

The 12 new essays in this volume explore the relationship between text and music in Alban Berg's works. The book examines the biographical issues that made such expressive choices attractive to the composer, and explores ways in which works not involving explicit verbal texts create signification, allusion, and reference.

Introduction, Siglind Bruhn * On Messages and Codes, Shared and Private Balzacian Mysticism, Palindromic Design, and Heavenly Tim in Berg's Music, John Covach * Alban Berg and the History of the Commentary, Wolfgang Gratzer * Encoding in Berg's Instrumental Compositions * More on Secret Programs in Berg's Instrumental Music, Gottfried Scholz * Berg's Kammerkonzert and Franz Werfel's Spiegelmensch: Mirror Images in Music and Literature, David Schroeder * Two Reigen: Berg, Schnitzler, and Cyclic Form, Robert Falck * Sleep and the Inner Journey: Berg's Song Cycles * The Representation of Sleep and Death in Berg's Piano Songs, op. 2, Magnar Breivik * The Other Altenberg Song Cycle: A Document of Viennese Fin-de-Si cle Aeshetics, Christoph Khittl * Symbolism and Self-Quotation in Berg's Picture Postcard Songs, Siglind Bruhn * Singing the Aphoristic Text: Berg's Altenberg-Lieder, Arved Ashby * Subtext and Subliminal Characteriziation in Berg's Operas * Tonality and Unreality in Berg's Wozzeck, Erika Reiman * The Death Leitmotif in Wozzeck and Lulu, Mark DeVoto * Femme Fatale and Lesbian Representation in alban Berg's Lulu, Karen Pegly * A Jungian Analysis of Berg's Alwa, Heather Platt

Siglind Bruhn