Introduction

pp 1-2

Part 1 - Culture and environment

1 - Denning home: Berg's life on the periphery

pp 3-23

2 - Battles of the mind: Berg and the cultural politics of ‘Vienna 1900’

pp 24-37

3 - Berg and Adorno

pp 38-50

Part 2 - From song to opera

4 - Early works: tonality and beyond

pp 51-82

5 - Berg's aphoristic pieces

pp 83-110

6 - Berg, Mahler and the Three Orchestral Pieces Op. 6

pp 111-144

7 - The musical language of Wozzeck

pp 145-164

Part 3 - After Wozzeck

8 - Secret programmes

pp 165-179

9 - Compositional process in Wozzeck and Lulu: a glimpse of Berg's atonal method

pp 180-188

10 - Compositional technique 1923–6: the Chamber Concerto and the Lyric Suite

pp 189-203

11 - In the orbit of Lulu: the late works

pp 204-226

12 - Lulu's feminine performance

pp 227-244

Part 4 - Postscript

13 - Berg and the twentieth century

pp 245-258

Notes

pp 259-298

Select bibliography

pp 299-299

Index

pp 300-304