Pierrot

However, this formula is not followed strictly, with the piano playing a few cycles of the chaconne in the second tableau and in the third tableau everyone has access to the material and free to realize bits of the chaconne material on their own. This is to create an ambiguity with who or what is in control of the chaconne, ultimately brining this question for the audience to walk away with asking or answering. This ambiguity does not stand as an anomaly, in fact, it harkens back to a theme in Pierrot lunaire, in which the main character is setup to display traits that were historically coded as masculine and feminine, and a blur occurs with trying to categorize the person who is enacting both sides. The chaconne is the first major figure that is heard (played by piccolo and cello), establishing all this tension between high and low, feminine and masculine, from the onset of the piece until its…

this fin de siècle period, Pierrot Lunaire. My adrenaline sparked through the roof. The time had finally come for me to encounter a creation by a legendary and revolutionary musical composer, Arnold Schoenberg. The seats were filled with audiences from different ages, with women dressed exceptionally stunning and men dressed in clean and charming suits. Claps of the hands filled the air as the room went dark, excitement overwhelmed me, yet my mind was ready to listen to the musical piece…

Russian formalism and Pierrot le fou In this essay I will apply the ideas of Sergei Eisenstein to Jean-Luc Godard's film, Pierrot le fou: one of the first road movies. Both are two filmmakers who seek to create transcendental movies through a methodical use of editing and offering a political and controversial vision of the time in history to which they belonged. One is linked to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the other one is a contemporary of May 68, two of the most important events in…

However, after my viewings at home, I realized there are many things hiding in this scene. In my first viewing, I only noticed the obvious moving subjects such as the car and the people. In my second viewing, I was already familiar with the moving subjects, so I started to observe the foreground and the background of the scene, and I noticed the wooden block and the ax in the foreground. In the third viewing, I started to look into specific details. I looked closely to the people who are…

experiments on the boys so that he could fix them. Laurent Clerc’s life was impacted by him because when he would try the experiments on the boys at the school and try to the cure and he wouldn’t get any response or any help from the boys he would get very angry and lash out at the boys. Roch-Ambroise Bebian was the godson of Abbe Sicard and he came to teach sign language at the school in Paris. He was known as one of the most caring and loved teachers in the school because he actually took the…

is prepared with corn, dumpling, ripped peas and many different types of spices. Roti is by far one of the must consume dishes throughout the carnival time. The food that comes from Trinidad and Tobago is said to be the plushest and greatest food in the Caribbean. Numerous individuals love to depict old fashion characters on the roads for carnival from the previous years, which helps out in saving the numerous common traditions of a developing cultural background that keeps a fundamental and…

instrument in this pieces was too harsh for my test but I did like the omen section as the repeated polychord give a sense of suspense that cause a dramatic felling of combat. I tend to not to like syncopated accents as it cause a little bit of distress and annoyance and could not enjoy as much as I enjoy the first part of omens and daces. I did however like the tempo change and the introduction of drums during the ritual of abduction part. Schoenberg 's "Pierrot lunaire" is my foruth less…

The 20th century was trivial in the world of music. It lead to the development of new genres and musical concepts. Composers around the world wrote beautiful pieces that forever influenced music. Of these composers, many consider Arnold Schoenberg to be one of the most important musicians of this era. Although the majority of people in the 20th century did not appreciate Schoenberg’s extremely modern work, his pieces led to much innovation in the world of music. He wrote numerous works of…

incorrect notes; and also the way he employs polytonality and polyrhythms, which would occur when the tunes would collide and intersect. b. From my perspective, I believe that this composition has a more “accessible” sound when compared to other musical compositions within the twentieth-century, due to the fact that you can clearly visualize, comprehend, and grasp the meaning and actuality of the unique, yet simple style of the composition. If you hypothetically were to put Appalachian…

There's also a faculty performance this Friday, the 17th, for The Pierrot Consort along with special guests Lawrence Dutton and Karen Gellert. The Pierrot Consort consists of LIU faculty members and program instructors Susan Deaver, Maureen Hynes, Dale Stuckenbruck, Veronica Salas, and Heawon Kim. The current group has been together for 25 years and still actively performs in New York City at venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera House which Stuckenbruck and Hynes credit to…