Inside Pierrot Lunaire Performing the Sprechstimme in Schoenberg's Masterpiece |
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| Author:
| Bryn-Julson, Phyllis
Mathews, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8108-6205-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2008 |
| Publisher: | Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $83.00 |
Book Description:
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This is a handbook on the performance and interpretation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, op. 21. The book presents a guide for the listener and an aid to the interpreter of the twenty-one melodramas, providing an original English translation of each poem and an analysis of each melodrama. The book makes a case for the importance of the notated pitches in a correct performance of the Sprechstimme.
This is a handbook on the performance and interpretation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, op. 21. The book presents a guide for the listener and an aid to the interpreter of the twenty-one melodramas, providing an original English translation of each poem and an analysis of each melodrama. The book makes a case for the importance of the notated pitches in a correct performance of the Sprechstimme.