- Foreword
- Author’s Preface
- Editor’s Preface
- List of Example
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
- Benjamin Britten, Men Behind the Meters and ‘Title Music/End Title III’ (1935)
- Stephen Pruslin’s Text for Harrison Birtwistle’s Monodrama (1967)
- Natko Devčić’s Review of ‘Spring Song’, 1970
Catalogue of Pierrot Ensembles, 1912-2012
- Alphabetical by Composer
- Categorized
Bibliography