Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I

"Of the greatest significance . . . . The first volume of George Perle''s two volume study on the two operas of Alban Berg ... is one of those few works of scholarship and analysis you can label ''definitive''; it may in time be supplemented, but not superseded." --Richard Dyer, Boston Sunday Globe   "It is difficult to see how Professor Perle''s exhaustive study can ever be superseded. . . or how...