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
Berg, Violin concerto
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 132
- Series
- Cambridge Music Handbooks
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgements (page ix)
1 Musical ideologies: style and genre in the 1930s (page 1)
2 Towards the Violin Concerto (page 9)
3 Composition and performance history (page 25)
4 Form, materials and programme (page 47)
5 Harmony, tonality and the series (page 65)
6 Reception and critical evaluation (page 91)
Notes (page 103)
Select bibliography (page 114)
Index (page 118)
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