Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's 'Lulu' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's 'Lulu' write by Silvio J. dos Santos. This book was released on 2014. Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's 'Lulu' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the crossroads between autobiographical narratives and musical composition in Alban Berg's Lulu, unveiling aspects of encoded social customs, gender identity, and personal experiences within musical structures. Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora -- the plays used in the formationof the libretto for Lulu -- according to notions of gender identity, social customs, and the aesthetics of modernity in the Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s. While Berg modernized several aspects of the plays and incorporatedserial techniques of composition from Arnold Schoenberg, he never let go of the idealistic Wagnerian perspectives of his youth. In fact, he went as far as reconfiguring aspects of Richard Wagner's life as an ideal identity to beplayed out in the compositional process. In composing the opera, Berg also reflected on the most important cultural figures in fin-de-siècle Vienna that affected his worldview, including Karl Kraus, Emil Lucka, Otto Weininger, andothers. Combining analysis of Berg's correspondence, numerous sketches for Lulu, and the finished work with interpretive models drawn from cultural studies and philosophy, this book elucidates the ways in which Berg grappled at the end of his life with his self-image as an "incorrigible romantic," and explains aspects of his musical language that have been considered strange or anomalous in Berg scholarship. Silvio J. dos Santos isassistant professor of musicology at the University of Florida.
Portraying Lulu
Portraying Lulu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraying Lulu write by Silvio José Dos Santos. This book was released on 2003. Portraying Lulu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Alban Berg
Alban Berg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alban Berg write by Bryan R. Simms. This book was released on 2018-02-01. Alban Berg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition is an annotated bibliography highlighting both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources that deal with Berg, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. It is a reliable, complete, and useful resource and a starting point for anyone—performer, teacher, student, or scholar—wanting to learn about Berg’s life, works, and cultural milieu. The third edition has 162 additional citations since the publication of the second edition, many arising after the expiration of copyright of Berg’s musical and archival works 2005. Many important new, primary sources of information have appeared, most notably the letter exchanges with his wife, recently published in a three-volume critical edition (in German), as well as letter exchanges with Alma Mahler and Erich Kleiber, and later correspondences with Anton Webern. There has also been a notable increase in the availability of commercial video recordings of Berg's operas, Wozzeck and Lulu.
Portraying Lulu
Portraying Lulu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraying Lulu write by Silvio José Dos Santos. This book was released on 2003. Portraying Lulu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
"Taken by the Devil"
"Taken by the Devil" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Taken by the Devil" write by Margaret Notley. This book was released on 2019-10-02. "Taken by the Devil" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Censorship had an extraordinary impact on Alban Berg's opera Lulu, composed by the Austrian during the politically tumultuous years spanning 1929 to 1935. Based on plays by Frank Wedekind that were repeatedly banned from being published and performed from 1894 until the end of World War I, the libretto was in turn censored by Berg himself when he characterized it as a morality play after submitting it to authorities in Nazi Germany in 1934. After Berg died the next year, the third act was censored by his widow, Helene, and his former teacher, Arnold Schoenberg. In "Taken by the Devil", author Margaret Notley uncovers the unusual and uniquely generative role of censorship throughout the lifecycle of Berg's great opera. Placing the opera and its source material in wider cultural contexts, Notley provides close readings of the opera's libretto and score to reveal techniques employed by the composer and by Wedekind before him in negotiating censorship. She also explores ways in which Berg chose to augment discrepancies between the plays rather than flatten them as in certain performances of the plays during the 1920s, adding further dimensions of interpretation to the work. Elegantly readable, "Taken by the Devil" is one of the most meticulously researched and nuanced studies of Lulu to date, and illuminates the process of politically-driven censorship of theater, music, and the arts during the tumultuous early twentieth century.
