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	Pierrot Lunaire
		Male character in pantomime pierrot derives from pedrolino of the italian pierrot pierrot lunaire piers plowman pierson, henry hugh (or heinrich hugo).
		Pierrot lunaire, op (1912) melodrama on poems by albert giraud, datura metel for speaker and five instrumentalists herzgewachse, op (1911) song setting words by maurice maeterlinck, for.
		Schoenberg s masterpiece of the surreal pierrot lunaire is coupled with a new and innovative arrangement for the same ensemble of his earlier song cycle das buch der.
	ericnovaz.hostaim.com /triangul82/pierrot-lunaire.html (1150 words)

	John Becker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pierrot Lunaire is a monumental work that retains its relevance and demands respect today because of its innovative nature and its dark reflection upon many facets of the human psyche.
		Pierrot belongs to the musical school of Expressionism, a term applied to music (and art) of this time period that probes the dark and turbulent depths of the subconscious mind.
		Pierrot Lunaire consist of twenty-one related but independent poetic thoughts divided into three sets of seven, all of which seem to transpire in some putrid corner of the mind during a nightmare.
	www.uwsp.edu /Education/Reference/Student%20Portfolio%20Models/samples/Becker%20Pierrot%20Paper1.htm (1270 words)

	Pierrot Lunaire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierrot Lunaire ("Moonstruck Pierrot" or "Pierrot in the moonlight") is an important work of Arnold Schoenberg, a setting of Albert Giraud's work of French poems of the same name (translated into German by Erich Otto von Hartleben) to music.
		Pierrot, as it is also known, has a characteristic ensemble, afterwards known as the "Pierrot ensemble", consisting of flute (doubling on a piccolo), clarinet (doubling on bass clarinet), violin (doubling on viola), cello, and piano.
		Pierrot is both hero and fool, acting in a drama that is also a concert piece, performing cabaret as high art and vice versa, and doing it with song that is also speech.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierrot_Lunaire (584 words)

	Pierrot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His Pierrot wore a fl tunic and pantaloons and sang sad songs in brothels.
		St Peter adopted the child and gave him his own name - Little Peter or Pierrot - but there was one condition, Pierrot was not to be allowed to play with any of the human children he might come across as he wandered outside the gates of Paradise.
		Of course, this was almost impossible for a small boy, and on his return from just such a meeting he realised that his white suit now had fl marks on it where the ordinary children had touched him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierrot (556 words)

	Iowa Chamber Music Coalition Will Perform 'Pierrot Lunaire' March 2
		One of the iconic works of the early 20th century, "Pierrot lunaire" was composed in 1912, after Schoenberg had abandoned traditional tonal composition that relies upon a consistent key center as a means of organization, but before he had developed the 12-tone "serial" style of composition that dominated much musical composition in the mid-20th century.
		Although reviews of the first performance of "Pierrot lunaire" were extremely negative, the work has been very influential on later composers, and it has come to be regarded as a masterpiece of the highly emotional expressionist style in music.
		"Pierrot" was one of the first works to use a mixed instrumental ensemble, as opposed to a standard chamber music group such as the string quartet, the woodwind quintet or the piano trio.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2004/february/022004coalition.html (791 words)

	Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
		Pierrot Lunaire (1912) is one of the most important music theatre works ever written.
		The book describes the artistic environment around the turn of the century from which Pierrot emerged and discusses Schoenberg's working methods and intentions in its composition.
		The composer's artistic development up to 1912 is contemplated as a backdrop to this extraordinarily original creative act, and the significance of Pierrot in the unfolding of twentieth-century music is a recurrent topic of the text.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=1137 (153 words)

	INKPOT#74 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire. Herzgewachse. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. ...
		Pierrot Lunaire ("Pierrot in the Moonlight", or "Moonstruck Pierrot) consists of three groups of seven poems each, each poem being of two four-line verses followed by a five-line verse, and each begins and ends with the same line.
		Pierrot is both hero and fool, acting in a drama that is also a concert piece, performing cabaret as high art and vice versa, and doing it with song that is also speech.
		Like Pierrot, it is an example of the use of sprechgesang, and can quite conceivably be performed by an actor, as there is no actual singing; the soloist recites the poem with music performed by a group of string quartet and piano, the vocal part's rhythm and pitch being notated.
	inkpot.com /classical/schoenpierrot.html (993 words)

	Pierrot Lunaire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Profoundly moving, full of imagery and drama, Pierrot Lunaire is a seminal work, that combines classical and contemporary styles.
		Skilfully blending the comic and poetic, the story of a man's journey from innocence to experience is told through 3 commedia dell'arte characters: Pierrot the innocent, the sinister Brighella, and heartless Columbine.
		Pierrot and Brighella are their lineal descendants and the Columbine their eternal female pawn.
	www.rambert.org.uk /archive/repertoire/detail_a.asp?art=546 (118 words)

	Pierrot Lunaire [www.progweed.net]
		Along with the likes of Franco Battiato, Opus Avantra and Piccho dal Pozzo, Pierrot Lunaire were one of the artists that contributed to the small, but artistically significant, avant progressive scene of Italy in the mid-70s.
		Pierrot Lunaire seems to be his first major project upon his graduation from the Conservatory of L'Aquila, and in retrospect his mid-70s venture into progressive rock seems to be only the first step in a career fascination with post-modernism and 20th century musical ideas.
		In any case, Pierrot Lunaire's two albums still stand as ingenious testaments to what the spirit of progressive rock could really have been about, and are a must for adventurous listeners.
	www.progweed.net /reviews/pierrotlunaire/pierrotlunaire-band.html (1069 words)

	Arnold Schoenberg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire - written in 1921 — is baffling to anybody unfamiliar with it.
		Although he was by nature conservative and considered, Schoenberg revolutionised the rules of musical composition in a way which influenced composers for the rest of the 20th century.
		Pierrot Lunaire has a structure imposed by the text.
	www.rambert.org.uk /archive/people/detail_a.asp?art=544 (444 words)

	Pierrot Lunaire
		Pierrot Lunaire is costumed, staged, and illuminated with sets, props and special effects in collaboration with the Phoenix Theatre Department.
		The composition marked the beginning of Modern Music in the 20th Century; all composers had to acknowledge its brilliance and vision (“Pierrot Lunaire is the solar plexus, as well as the mind, of early twentieth century music”, Stravinsky, a decade after Schoenberg’s death).
		A Pierrot, in short, to remind us of the composer’s remark that the work was conceived in a “light, ironical, satirical tone,” while not underplaying the more violent and dramatic music in part two.
	finearts.uvic.ca /music/recordings/archive/pierrot_lunaire (1334 words)

	THE HIGH HAT \| POPS&CLICKS: Blue Gaze: Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
		By the time he wrote Pierrot Lunaire, (“Moonstruck Pierrot, Three Times Seven Poems by Albert Girard”) in 1912, Arnold Schoenberg was one of the most famous composers in Europe.
		Second up was Pierrot Lunaire — a Glen Tetley masterpiece, danced for a long time by Rambert but currently in the Royal“s repertoire for the first time.
		But like him or love him or not, Pierrot is with us, and if Pierrot Lunaire discomfits us, it may be in part because of the mirror it holds up to modern life.
	www.thehighhat.com /PopsClicks/007/schoenberg_hicken.html (1646 words)

	Eye - On Stage - 04.27.00
		Pierrot Lunaire and Transfigured Night sound like music from completely different centuries -- which, in fact, they are.
		The child seems to be both agent and object of Pierrot's transgressive fantasies, which range from fixating on the blood of consumptives to ravaging the jewels of royal families.
		Where Pierrot Lunaire is all Modernist dissonance and unleashed sexuality, the earlier, more traditional Transfigured Night (1899) combines stormy emotion with Victorian repression.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.27.00/arts/onstage.html (1458 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Pierrot Lunaire
		Tetley created Pierrot Lunaire (Moon Pierrot) in 1962 and had danced the lead himself, but Christopher Bruce was a huge success in the role and it established him as a leading dancer and a formidable dance actor.
		Pierrot, or ‘Pedroline’ was one of the comic servant characters, his face characteristically whitened with flour.
		Pierrot troupes, where all the performers have whitened faces, and baggy white costumes were also a 19th century innovation.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=1079&back=/guided_tours/dance_tour/ballet/establishment_rambert.php? (214 words)

	The Sound of Colour: Kandinsky and Schoenberg 1911 -1912 @ Almeida Theatre, London \| concert reviews \| musicOMH.com
		Though Schönberg wanted Pierrot Lunaire to be performed as a concert piece, Bernas and Ashman endeavored to recreate the first performance.
		Pierrot Lunaire was commissioned by the singer/actress Albertine Zehme, who insisted on wearing a costume, using lighting designs and having the musicians behind a screen.
		As with Pierrot Lunaire and all other pieces in the concert, there were no surtitles and it was too dark to read the translated text.
	www.musicomh.com /classical/lunaire_0706.htm (810 words)

	Pierrot Lunaire
		Her operatic range and seemingly effortless pitch control have been demonstrated not only in her own music, but in her performances of Arnold Schoenberg's notoriously difficult "Pierrot Lunaire." Her voice can be perfectly clear, and she often phrases in an intentionally tentative way, bringing the childlike quality of her singing to the fore.
		Pierrot Lunaire achieves it's astonishing sound first by use of speech-contours called Sprechstimme, second by vastly imaginative treatment of the five instrumentalists, such that no two of the 21 total songs begin with the same isntrumental force.
		Pierrot, the poet, comes from the Commedia dell'Arte tradition; the settings are strongly Expressionistic and symbolic, focusing on cold, white moonlight—tinged in the Chopin waltz by a drop of blood—and drunkenness.
	lostsongs.bjorkish.net /pierrotlunaire (789 words)

	Professor Roger Marsh - Pierrot Lunaire
		Albert Giraud's 'Pierrot Lunaire -50 Rondels Bergamasques'Settings of the complete collection for mixed vocal ensembles by Roger Marsh in a full theatrical realisation.
		Pierrot Lunaire is only known today as a famous and important work by Arnold Schoenberg, which consists of settings of 21 of Giraud's poems in no particular order and in German translation.
		In May 2006 Pierrot Lunaire is to be performed on the closing night of the Spor-Festival in Århus, Denmark.
	music.york.ac.uk /staff/academic/roger_marsh/pierrot (480 words)

	Pierrot lunaire
		Das Groteske in der Musik: Arnold Schönbergs “Pierrot lunaire”.
		From Pierrot to Marteau: an international conference and concert celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Southern California School of Music, March 14-16, 1987 / [Leonard Stein, editor].
		The triumph of Pierrot: the commedia dell’arte and the modern imagination.
	www.usc.edu /libraries/archives/schoenberg/faq_op21.htm (344 words)

	Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire op. 21 - Bibliography
		Cerha, Friedrich: Zur Interpretation der Sprechstimme in Schönbergs Pierrot Lunaire, in: Bericht über den 1.
		Sward, Jeffrey Edwin: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Walton's Facade from a conductor's viewpoint.
		Zechlin, Ruth: Gedanken zu "Pierrot lunaire", in: Arnold Schoenberg, 1874 bis 1951.
	www.schoenberg.at /6_archiv/biblio/bibliography_op21_e.htm (1764 words)

	Ballet.co Galleries :: Royal Ballet - La Fete Etrange - Pierrot Lunaire - Marguerite and Armand - Oct 2005
		Ivan Putrov as Pierrot and Deirdre Chapman as Columbine
		Columbine - Deirde Chapman and Pierrot - Ivan Putrov
		Columbine and Brighella - Deirdre Chapman and Carlos Acosta with Pierrot - Ivan Putrov
	www.ballet.co.uk /gallery/jr_rb_fete_pierrot_marguerite_1005 (231 words)

	Classical (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1912, the year before the premiere of Stravinsky's La sacre du printemps triggered the most notorious musical riot of the century, Arnold Schoenberg was creating a quieter revolution.
		He was slowly obliterating the system of tonality as it had been known for centuries, and his expressionistic masterpiece, Pierrot Lunaire, which might be translated as "Moonstruck Pierrot," was a major step on that thorny path.
		Pierrot Lunaire was his Opus 21, so he assembled 21 poems, in three sets of seven, by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud about the lovesick clown Pierrot, the commedia dell'arte character in whiteface and loose, baggy white silks.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/05/27/CLASSICAL.html (615 words)

	MTO 12.1: Byron, The Test Pressings of Schoenberg Conducting Pierrot lunaire
		Schoenberg was influenced by Albertine Zehme's original conception of Pierrot lunaire, and it is not unlikely that he was also influenced by her conception of recitation.
		Sprechstimme in Pierrot lunaire has an in-built demand for interpretation by the performer; and when this is denied by performers, Schoenberg saw it as a misinterpretation of his music.
		In Pierrot lunaire in general, and in our recording in particular, there is a special problem in deciding where to position the cursor; since Stiedry-Wagner often glissandos (see Figure 2) after and/or before the notated pitch (or its equivalent in her singing).
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.06.12.1/mto.06.12.1.byron_essay.html (8007 words)

	Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: an Atonal Landmark
		Though freely atonal, Pierrot lunaire marks a return to counterpoint and looks forward to the ordered atonality of serialism.
		After forty rehearsals, Pierrot lunaire was premiered at the Berlin Choralion-saal on October 16, 1912.
		Although a bundle of contradictions, Pierrot lunaire's confusion expresses a fundamental connection made by the unconscious between feelings that are normally poles apart: desire and cruelty, pleasure and pain, ecstasy and melancholy.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm5-7/schoenberg-en.htm (980 words)

	Dance Magazine: Lunaire And Tiger Return. - Sadler's Wells Theater, London, England - Review - dance review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By contrast, creel and base natures were on display in Pierrot Lunaire during the second week.
		Pierrot Lunaire, the child-like dreamer, was exceptionally well danced by O'Brien, who swung on the bars with an infantile rocking motion and romped around the stage, before his curiosity made him easy prey for the darker elements of life.
		As Columbine, who represents a mother figure, a mistress, a whore, Chapman danced convincingly, clearly expressing herself in open, expansive movements and deftly shaping the changes of her role--from maternal softness to caustic carnality.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_10_74/ai_65862887 (861 words)

	JS Online: 'Pierrot' set tone for musical change
		Arnold Schoenberg, shown in a 1944 photo, was the composer of "Pierrot Lunaire," which premiered in 1912.
		Many artists thought of themselves as misunderstood by society in post-Romantic Europe, and Pierrot became something of an alter-ego of the artist and a symbol of alienation.
		The consistent, highly structured "Pierrot" text gave the composer a skeleton to hang his tones on.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/jan04/199563.asp (894 words)

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