A Snapshot of the 'Pierrot' Ensemble Today
Conference paper
Dromey, C. 2013. A Snapshot of the 'Pierrot' Ensemble Today. Third International Meeting for Chamber Music, organised by Dr Zoltan Paulinyi. University of Évora, Portugal 08 - 10 Jan 2013
Type | Conference paper |
---|---|
Title | A Snapshot of the 'Pierrot' Ensemble Today |
Authors | Dromey, C. |
Abstract | 2012 was the centenary of the first performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, and over the last hundred years its mixed chamber ensemble has become, in all its protean forms, a principal line-up for modern music. As scholars have awoken to this phenomenon, so the term ‘Pierrot ensemble’ has gradually entered the lexicon of music criticism to describe such works, as well as the groups that perform them. At the same time, it is clear that music written for conventional chamber-music groupings has become increasingly rare since the early twentieth century, and that the preference of composers for more colourful and heterogeneous types of ensemble has grown. Because of these tendencies, the Pierrot ensemble’s line-up could be popular but never absolutely fixed: as we shall see, nearly all Pierrot ensembles deviate in some way from Schoenberg’s prototype. |
Research Group | Music group |
Conference | Third International Meeting for Chamber Music, organised by Dr Zoltan Paulinyi |
Publication dates | |
10 Jan 2013 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 Apr 2016 |
Accepted | 10 Jan 2013 |
Output status | In press |
Additional information | Paper subsequently published: see http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/9885 |
Language | English |
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/8655v
46
total views0
total downloads2
views this month0
downloads this month