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Pierrot lunaire, op. 21

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What historical and analytical studies are easily accessible for Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21?

Articles

  1. Bailey, Kathryn. “Formal Organization and Structural Imagery in Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire’.” Studies in Music From the University of Western Ontario, no. 2 (1977): 93-107.
  2. Biringer, Gene Douglas. “Musical Metaphors in Schoenberg’s ‘Der Kranke Mond’.” In Theory Only 8, no. 7 (1985): 3-14.
  3. Brinkmann, Reinhold. “On Pierrot’s Trail.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 2, no. 1 (1977): 42-48.
  4. Brinkmann, Reinhold. “What Sources Tell Us About ‘Pierrot Lunaire’.” From Pierrot to Marteau, 33-39. Los Angeles: Arnold Schoenberg Institute, 1987.
  5. Gilbert, Jan. “Schoenberg’s Harmonic Visions: A Study of Text Painting in ‘Die Kreuze’.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 8, no. 2 (1984): 117-30.
  6. Lessem, Alan Philip. “Text and Music in Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire’.” Current Musicology 19 (1975): 103-12.
  7. Smyth, David Harold. “The Music of ‘Pierrot Lunaire’: an Analytic Approach.” Theory and Practice 4 or 5, no. 1 (1980): 5-24.
  8. Stadlen, Peter. “Schoenberg’s Speech-Song.” Music and Letters 62, no. 1 (1981): 1-11.
  9. Steuermann, Edward. “‘Pierrot Lunaire’ in Retrospect.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 2, no. 1 (1977): 49-51.
  10. Youens, Susan. “Excavating an Allegory: The Texts of ‘Pierrot Lunaire’.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 8, no. 2 (1984): 95-115.
  11. Youens, Susan. “The Text of ‘Pierrot Lunaire’: an Allegory of Art and the Mind.” From Pierrot to Marteau, 30-32. Los Angeles: The Arnold Schoenberg Institute, 1987.

Books

  1. Delaere, Mark. Funktionelle Atonalität: analytische Strategien für die frei-atonale Musik der Wiener Schule. Wilhelmshaven [Germany] : Florian Noetzel, “Heinrichshofen Bücher”, 1993.
  2. Watkins, Glenn. Pyramids at the Louvre: music, culture, and collage from Stravinsky to the postmodernists. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.
  3. Sterne, Colin C. Arnold Schoenberg : the composer as numerologist. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1993.
  4. Dunsby, Jonathan. Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire. Cambridge [England] and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. (Cambridge music handbooks)
  5. Milstein, Silvina. Arnold Schoenberg: notes, sets, forms. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  6. Beinhorn, Gabriele. Das Groteske in der Musik: Arnold Schönbergs “Pierrot lunaire”. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1989.
  7. Steuermann, Edward. The not quite innocent bystander: writings of Edward Steuermann. Edited by Clara Steuermann, David Porter, and Gunther Schuller; translations by Richard Cantwell and Charles Messner. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
  8. 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]. Los Angeles, CA: Arnold Schoenberg Institute, 1987.
  9. Engel, Carl. Discords mingled: essays on music. New York: Knopf, 1931.
  10. Green, Martin Burgess. The triumph of Pierrot: the commedia dell’arte and the modern imagination. New York : Macmillan, 1986.
  11. Stein, Erwin. “The treatment of the speaking voice in ‘Pierrot Lunaire’.” p. 86-89. Translated from German by Hans Keller. In Stein, Erwin. Orpheus in new guises. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1979.