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Inside Pierrot Lunaire
Performing the Sprechstimme in Schoenberg's Masterpiece
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2008
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Inside Pierrot lunaire: Performing the Sprechstimme in Schoenberg's Masterpiece is a handbook on the performance and interpretation of the recitation in Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, op. 21. Presenting a guide for the listener and an aid to the interpreter of the 21 melodramas, the book provides an original English translation of each poem, annotated with references to other poems in the cycle, including some of the texts Schoenberg omitted. The volume also offers an analysis of the Sprechstimme in each melodrama in the context of the surrounding texture and directed by the principles of analysis Schoenberg established in his essays and lectures.
Inside Pierrot lunaire makes a case for the importance of the notated pitches in a correct performance of the Sprechstimme. Acclaimed singer Phyllis Bryn-Julson and music theorist Paul Mathews provide a method for performing the Sprechstimme that considers Schoenberg's performing directions, his sometimes-contradictory statements, the recording Schoenberg conducted in 1939, and the burgeoning scholarship on speech-melody. Bryn-Julson and Mathews also examine the role played by Albertine Zehme, the singing actress who commissioned Pierrot, whose part in its creation has been minimized in previous studies. The discussion of Sprechstimme is informed by a genuine oral tradition running from Eduard Steuermann, the pianist who coached Zehme's premiere of the piece, to Ms. Bryn-Julson's own interpretation. The volume also provides a bibliography of sources and an index.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-6205-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-6225-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
241
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Acknowledgments No access
Note on Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: Schoenberg and the Development of the Sprechstimme Concept No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 2: The Paths to Pierrot No access Pages 21 - 42
Chapter 3: The Sprechstimme in Pierrot lunaire No access Pages 43 - 80
Chapter 4: An Overview of Compositional Materials No access Pages 81 - 102
Chapter 5: Part I, Numbers 1–7 No access Pages 103 - 138
Chapter 6: Part II, Numbers 8–14 No access Pages 139 - 176
Chapter 7: Part III, Numbers 15–21 No access Pages 177 - 216
Afterword No access Pages 217 - 218
Bibliography No access Pages 219 - 226
Index No access Pages 227 - 234
About the Authors No access Pages 235 - 235
Photoes No access Pages 236 - 241
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