Article: The Cambridge Companion to Berg.(Review)

Edited by Anthony Pople. (Cambridge Companions to Music.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [xv, 304 p. ISBN 0-521-56374-7 (cloth); 0521-56489-1 (pbk.). $64.95 (cloth); $19.95 (pbk.).]

The advantages of studying a composer by way of a multiauthored "companion" volume are all apparent in the excellent and provocative Cambridge Companion to Berg. The collective expertise of its eleven contributors could hardly have been duplicated by any single one, and the two chapters written by scholars from nonmusical areas are especially relevant and enlightening. The editor, Anthony Pople, evidently planned the volume to achieve a coherent analytic survey of all ...

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