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‘How do you sound like a sickly moon or a gigantic black butterfly?’: Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and its ‘sing-speech’
Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire broke the mould of what both chamber music and singing could be. Scored for five musicians playing eight instruments between them and a singer instructed not to sing, it was the perfect musical manifestation of expressionism, …
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The Guardian
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