Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music.(Review)

Notes | March 1, 1999| | Copyright

Edited by Siglind Bruhn. (Border Crossings, 1.) New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. [xvi, 307 p. ISBN 0-8153-2480-4. $59.]

Carl Dahlhaus reminded us twenty years ago that the idea of music as "a sounding phenomenon and nothing more . . . proves to be a historically molded theorem no more than two centuries old" (The Idea of Absolute Music, trans. Roger Lustig [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989], 8; originally published as Die Idee der absoluten Musik [Kassel: Barenreiter, 1978]). It is thus doubtful that he would have been much surprised at Siglind Bruhn's ...

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