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    Arnold Schoenberg was a musical radical who developed twelve-tone composition and used it in works like Pierrot Lunaire. In Pierrot Lunaire, he employed sprechstimme, which is a singing style between speech and song, and atonality, which lacks a tonal center. Igor Stravinsky collaborated with Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and is known for influential ballets like The Rite of Spring, which depicts a springtime celebration and ritual sacrifice through dance. The document discusses Expressionism in art and these two pioneering early 20th century composers who pushed boundaries in atonal and polytonal music.

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    Arnold Schoenberg was a musical radical who developed twelve-tone composition and used it in works like Pierrot Lunaire. In Pierrot Lunaire, he employed sprechstimme, which is a singing style between speech and song, and atonality, which lacks a tonal center. Igor Stravinsky collaborated with Diaghilev's Russian Ballet and is known for influential ballets like The Rite of Spring, which depicts a springtime celebration and ritual sacrifice through dance. The document discusses Expressionism in art and these two pioneering early 20th century composers who pushed boundaries in atonal and polytonal music.

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    For Today: Arnold Schoenberg and Expressionism Igor Stravinsky and Polytonal Music

    EXPRESSIONISM
    Expressionism: a broad

    artist movement that flourished in music, painting, and literature in the early decades of the twentieth century. Use of exaggerated imagery and extreme colors to create art that focused on stimulating the mind. Strove to speak to the unconscious, to make apparent humanitys deepest and often darkest emotions. Id versus ego.

    Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)


    Though Schoenberg

    considered himself to be a traditionalist, he was widely regarded as a musical radical. Moved several times between Vienna, Austria and Berlin, Germany until the Nazis assumed power in Germanyhe then moved to the United States. Developed a new means of composing music: twelve-tone composition.

    Pierrot Lunaire, Schoenberg, 1912


    Pierrot: pale,

    moonstruck clown of commedia dellarte, type of improv. theater from Renaissance Italy. Essentially a song cycle, a set of lieder. Schoenberg set his music to Albert Girauds cycle of poems, Pierrot Lunaire.

    New musical concepts in Pierrot Lunaire


    Sprechstimme: Speech-Voice Schoenberg

    calls for the singer to hitbut not sustain precise pitches. Eerie, disassociated quality.
    Similar to recitatives in classical operathink Le

    Nozze di Figaro.
    AtonalityMusic lacking any sense of tonal

    center, resolution, or harmonic closure.


    Some people love atonality, some people hate it.

    Columbine from Schoenbergs Pierrot Lunaire


    The book suggests: Columbine is not beautiful

    in ay conventional sense. Schoenberg purposely set this anguished text to music that is equally tormented. He saw no point in trying to project pain through beauty. Instead, his music captures pain itself.

    Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)


    Collaborated with

    Sergei Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet in Paris, along with Gabrielle Chanel and Pablo Picasso. Best known for his ballet music, ie. The Rite of Spring, Firebird, Petrouchka, Pulcinella.

    The Rite of Spring


    Part One: The Adoration of the Earth
    Springtime celebration centered around ritualistic

    dancing.
    Part Two: The Great Sacrifice

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