Webern Studies

ISBN-13: 9780521475266 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 396 str.

Kathryn Bailey (University of Western Ontario)

Opis

This book looks at the music of Webern from several new perspectives. The most recent Webern scholarship has emphasized Webern's lyricism, and this is a theme running through Webern Studies. Other techniques not generally associated with Webern are also explored: two chapters illustrate and examine his apparent early interest in octatonic and pitch-specific motivic collections. In addition to previously unpublished entries from Webern's diaries, the volume includes all the row tables for his twelve-note music. There is also a new and comprehensive Webern bibliography.

Spis treści

Introduction Kathryn Bailey; 1. '... gathering the divine from the earthly ...': Ferdinand Avenarius and his significance for Anton Webern's early settings of lyric poetry Susanne Rode-Breymann; 2. Gone with the summer wind; or, What Webern lost Derrick Puffett; 3. The golden thread: octatonic music in Anton Webern's early songs, with certain historical reflections Allen Forte; 4. A pitch-class motive in Webern's George Lieder, Op. 3 Robert W. Wason; 5. Performance and revision: Webern's Four Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 7 Felix Meyer and Anne Shreffler; 6. Webern's row tables Kathryn Bailey; 7. Webern's lyric character Christopher Wintle; 8. Music - discourse - dialogue: Webern's Variations, Op. 30 Arnold Whittall; 9. A Webern bibliography Neil Boynton; Index.