Berg-Whittle, Three Pieces

Alban Berg, Three Pieces
Arranged for solo guitar by Rod Whittle.

“Change of scene” from Wozzeck
Excerpt from Lyric Suite
Excerpt from Lulu Suite

The Lyric Suite (1927), which uses Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, is a case in point. The very name seems incongruous for an atonal work, yet lyric it is, and if the forms used are necessarily masked by the characteristics of serial writing they are not eliminated by them. In this excerpt, a rondo form is used with the principle subject repeated on the third page after a digression to more remote regions than this form usually adopts, due to the atonality.

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• Pages: 16
• Level: Challenging
• ISMN 979-0-706815-29-9
  
• Order number: BE-200410