Paper #3: Schoenberg and Pierrot Lunaire

In this paper, please discuss how the music of Schoenberg can be considered an example of serious contemporary art-music as described at length by Milton Babbitt in his essay, Who Cares if You Listen? Your paper should answer the following questions: What aspects of Pierrot Lunaire may have been jarring for the listener and difficult to understand upon first listening? (Relate what you hear in the music to Babbitts background information) oInclude discussion on aspects of Expressionism: Sprechstimme, Atonality, other methods for expression of emotions through music and text How did audiences receive Schoenbergs music? How, if at all, did the audience critiques and opinions affect Schoenberg? In order to effectively answer the questions listed above and support your argument, you must use quotations from, and make specific references to the available texts. Available resources from class materials that will help answer the above questions are as follows: Assigned readings from Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise (see syllabus for page numbers) Weiss & Taruskin Reading #128 (available on Blackboard) German to English Translation of text (available on Blackboard) Recommended Recordings of Pierrot Lunaire (link on Blackboard) This paper should be typed, double-spaced w