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Author: Weytjens, Stephan Title: Text as a Crutch in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” op. 21? An Analysis of the Relationship between Textual Aspects and Musical Structure in Free Atonality Institution: Catholic University of Leuven Begun: January 1998 Completed: December 2003 Abstract: Among the criticisms regarding Arnold Schoenberg's free atonal compositions, one concept frequently comes up. It argues that Schoenberg needed the crutch of a text to be able to compose atonal pieces of greater length. Fervent opponents of atonality have often used this argument to justify their claims that atonality would unavoidably lead to an impasse. In fact, in order to legitimate his later twelve-tone method even Schoenberg himself eventually admitted the necessity of a text-based approach in free atonality. Nowadays this concept of the text as a temporary makeshift is still frequently taken for granted. In practice, though, such a dependence on a text often appears to be a rather complex matter. This becomes particularly obvious in Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” op. 21 (1912), a work that - also in this respect - can be considered as a key work in the composer’s oeuvre. “Pierrot Lunaire” appears indeed not only as a real laboratory in which a plethora of widely divergent text-music relationships is displayed, but also as a melting pot of purely musical structural devices. By means of a thorough immanently technical analysis of the musical score, in combination with a study of the structural and semantic aspects of the poetic text of Giraud/Hartleben, this dissertation sheds a new light on the question of how the dependence on a text may interact with a perfectly autonomous musical construction in free atonal music. Keywords: "Pierrot Lunaire", music analysis, free atonality, music and text TOC: INTRODUCTION (p.I-VIII) No. 1 "MONDESTRUNKEN" (pp. 1-20) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 2 "COLOMBINE" (pp. 21-42) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 3 "DER DANDY" (pp. 43-66) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 4 "EINE BLASSE WÄSCHERIN" (pp. 67-82) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 5 "VALSE DE CHOPIN" (pp. 83-104) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 6 "MADONNA" (pp. 105-118) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 7 "DER KRANKE MOND" (p. 123-136) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 8 "NACHT" (pp. 137-154) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 9 "GEBET AN PIERROT" (pp. 157-172) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 10 "RAUB" (pp. 173-194) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 11 "ROTE MESSE" (pp. 195-210) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 12 "GALGENLIED" (pp. 211-220) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 13 "ENTHAUPTUNG" (pp. 221-248) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 14 "DIE KREUZE" (pp. 249-280) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 15 "HEIMWEH" (pp. 281-306) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 16 "GEMEINHEIT" (pp. 307-330) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 17 "PARODIE" (pp. 331-356) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 18 "DER MONDFLECK" (pp. 357-372) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 19 "SERENADE" (pp. 373-394) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 20 "HEIMFAHRT" (pp. 395-414) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL No. 21 "O ALTER DUFT" (pp. 415-430) I. STRUCTURAL LEVEL 1. Level of the form A. Analysis of the parameters B. Motivic analysis 2. Level of the syntax 3. Level of the syllables II. SEMANTIC LEVEL CONCLUSION (pp. 431-438) BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp. 439-442) Contact: Stephan Weytjens Pelgrimstraat 1/16 BE - 3000 Leuven Belgium s_weytjens@hotmail.com + 32/16 222 4 |