Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music

Siglind Bruhn

Introduction, Siglind Bruhn * On Messages and Codes, Shared and Private Balzacian Mysticism, Palindromic Design, and Heavenly Tim in Berg's Music, John Covach * Alban Berg and the History of the Commentary, Wolfgang Gratzer * Encoding in Berg's Instrumental Compositions * More on Secret Programs in Berg's Instrumental Music, Gottfried Scholz * Berg's Kammerkonzert and Franz Werfel's Spiegelmensch: Mirror Images in Music and Literature, David Schroeder * Two Reigen: Berg, Schnitzler, and Cyclic Form, Robert Falck * Sleep and the Inner Journey: Berg's Song Cycles * The Representation of Sleep and Death in Berg's Piano Songs, op. 2, Magnar Breivik * The Other Altenberg Song Cycle: A Document of Viennese Fin-de-Si cle Aeshetics, Christoph Khittl * Symbolism and Self-Quotation in Berg's Picture Postcard Songs, Siglind Bruhn * Singing the Aphoristic Text: Berg's Altenberg-Lieder, Arved Ashby * Subtext and Subliminal Characteriziation in Berg's Operas * Tonality and Unreality in Berg's Wozzeck, Erika Reiman * The Death Leitmotif in Wozzeck and Lulu, Mark DeVoto * Femme Fatale and Lesbian Representation in alban Berg's Lulu, Karen Pegly * A Jungian Analysis of Berg's Alwa, Heather Platt