Table of Contents

Introduction Kathryn Bailey; 1. '... gathering the divine from the earthly ...': Ferdinand Avenarius and his significance for Anton Webern's early settings of lyric poetry Susanne Rode-Breymann; 2. Gone with the summer wind; or, What Webern lost Derrick Puffett; 3. The golden thread: octatonic music in Anton Webern's early songs, with certain historical reflections Allen Forte; 4. A pitch-class motive in Webern's George Lieder, Op. 3 Robert W. Wason; 5. Performance and revision: Webern's Four Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 7 Felix Meyer and Anne Shreffler; 6. Webern's row tables Kathryn Bailey; 7. Webern's lyric character Christopher Wintle; 8. Music - discourse - dialogue: Webern's Variations, Op. 30 Arnold Whittall; 9. A Webern bibliography Neil Boynton; Index.

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A collection of essays looking at Webern's music from several different perspectives.