Webern Studies

A collection of essays looking at Webern's music from several different perspectives.

Kathryn Bailey (Edited by)

9780521118811, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 September 2009

396 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.58 kg

This collection of essays looks at the music of Webern from several different perspectives. Webern scholarship, based on the sketches and other primary material now owned by the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel and the Library of Congress in Washington, has emphasised Webern's lyricism, and this is a theme running through Webern Studies. Most of the essays are the result of work with primary material. The volume includes entries from Webern's diaries, and all of the row tables for his twelve-note music. A comprehensive Webern bibliography covers thoroughly the period since Zoltan Roman's bibliography of 1978.

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.

Subject Areas: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups [AVH]