A virtual presentation of my research on the music theory of Alban Berg's Lulu (1929-1935) as relevant to thematic elements of its atypical femme fatale, Lulu, who is  — of Lilith and of Eve, of a snake and of Mignon, of a siren and of a street urchin — complicit in her cyclical harnessing of marriage as a profitable prostitution in a murderous plight, soliciting wealthy men (and women) romantically in a ruse to climb socially and financially.

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Scoring Lilith: Dodecaphonic Diegesis, Film Music and Retrograde Inversion in Alban Berg's Lulu

Ema Pope