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Pierrot Lunaire

American  
[pee-uh-roh loo-nair, pye-roh ly-ner] / ˌpi əˈroʊ luˈnɛər, pjɛ roʊ lüˈnɛr /

noun

  1. a cycle of 21 songs (1912) for voice and instruments, by Arnold Schönberg, written in Sprechgesang style and set to poems of Albert Giraud in German translation.


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The "Bocklin" pieces were written in 1913, the revolutionary year of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" and Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire."

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2014

Night owls can swing by Untitled, which begins at 10 that night, and has a bill of Schnyder's Bass Trombone Concerto "subZERO," Widmann's String Quartet No. 3 and Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire."

From Seattle Times Feb. 11, 2013

Take, for example, the Beyond the Score exploration of that iconic modernist masterpiece, Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," to be narrated and hosted by CSO creative director Gerard McBurney and conducted by Pierre Boulez.

From Chicago Tribune Feb. 16, 2011

Jurowski conducted a pungent account of the First Chamber Symphony, underlining the way the music makes an expressive virtue of the confines of its single-movement form, and an equally deft one of Pierrot Lunaire.

From The Guardian Jun. 16, 2010

I confess I did not understand at one hearing the curious dislocated harmonies and splintered themes—melodies they are not—in the Pierrot Lunaire.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

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