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Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music
edited by Siglind Bruhn

CONTENTS

Introduction

3



Part One
On Messages and Codes, Shared and Private


Balzacian Mysticism, Palindromic Design, and Heavenly Time in Berg’s Music
(John Covach)

9

Alban Berg and the History of the Commentary
(Wolfgang Gratzer)

37



Part Two
Encoding in Berg’s Instrumental Compositions


More on Secret Programs in Berg’s Instrumental Music
(Gottfried Scholz)

51

Berg’s Kammerkonzert and Franz Werfel’s Spiegelmensch: Mirror Images in Music and Literature
(David Schroeder)

71

Two Reigen: Berg, Schnitzler and Cyclic Form
(Robert Falck)

95



Part Three
Sleep and the Inner Journey: Berg’s Song Cycles


The Representation of Sleep and Death in Berg’s Piano Songs op.2
(Magnar Breivik)

111

Berg’s Other Altenberg Song Cycle as a Document of Viennese Fin-de-Siècle Aesthetics
(Christoph Khittl)

139

Symbolism and Self-Quotation in Berg’s Picture Postcard Songs
(Siglind Bruhn)

159

Toward a Phenomenology of Postcard and Song: The Altenberg-Lieder
(Arved Ashby)

193



Part Four
Subtext and Subliminal Characterization in Berg’s Operas


Tonality and Unreality in Berg’s Wozzeck
(Erika Reiman)

229

The Death Leitmotif in Wozzeck and Lulu
(Mark DeVoto)

243

Femme Fatale and Lesbian Representation in Alban Berg’s Lulu
(Karen Pegley)

249

‘Richte mich zugrunde!’: A Jungian Analysis of Berg’s Alwa
(Heather Platt)

279



The contributors

305