Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

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.


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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 positioned the soloists behind the instrumentalists; it more or less worked in Pierrot Lunaire, where the voice is sometimes one strand of the instrumental argument, but not in the Four Last Songs.

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

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "Pierrot Lunaire" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com