The Pierrot Ensembles
Chronicle and Catalogue,
1912-2012

xii+300 p.; 14 black-and-white illustrations

hardback: 978-0-9566007-2-1

softback: ISBN 978-0-9566007-3-8


Chronicle

1 Pierrot Lunaire

2 The First Pierrot Ensembles

  • Arnold Schoenberg as Conductor and Composer
  • Pierrot’s Progenies?
  • Pierrot’s Premieres and Revivals, 1921-25

3 Benjamin Britten’s Pierrot Ensembles49

  • Benjamin Britten: A Cinematic Response (I)
  • Dinner Hour
  • Men Behind the Meters

4 ‘Freak’ Works

  • Music-making in Britain during the War
  • The Pierrot and Façade Ensembles

5 Two Twelve-note Pierrot Ensembles

  • Hanns Eisler: A Cinematic Response (II)
  • Elisabeth Lutyens’s Mask

6 Rejuvenating Post-war Performance

  • Humphrey Searle’s Society for Twentieth Century Music, 1952
  • The London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

7 The Pierrot Players

  • Redefining the Young British Composer
  • Towards the Pierrot Players
  • Harrison Birtwistle’s Experiment
  • Peter Maxwell Davies’s Success
  • ‘A Garland for Dr K.’, 1969

8 Rethinking Birtwistle’s Role

  • Birtwistle and the Group Ethos
  • ‘Spring Song’, 1970

9 The Fires of London

  • Peter Maxwell Davies: Two Cinematic Responses (III/IV)
  • Towards an Orcadian Pierrot Ensemble

Epilogue

Documents

Catalogue of Pierrot Ensembles, 1912-2012

Bibliography

Index


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