Credits

The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, for Digital Knowledge Ventures and Columbia Interactive

Faculty Producer and Author

Ian Bent, Professor of Music

Faculty Co-Author

Walter Frisch, Professor of Music

Contributing Scholars

Melanie Schoenberg
Maja Cerar
Janet Steele
Daniel C. Johnson
John Smalley
Suzanne M. Lodato
Marc A. Meyer
Giorgio Biancorosso

Executive Producers

Frank Moretti
Maurice Matiz

Manager, Research and Content Development

Marc A. Meyer

Manager, External Project Development

Ted Bongiovanni

Information Architect

Paula Torres

Interface Design

Cristian Rivano

Interface Engineer

Cristian Rivano

Flash Development

Melissa Ulto

Video Production

Melissa Ulto

Video/Audio Production Assistance

Brian O'Hagan
Ben Johnston

Video/Audio Editing and Encoding

Melissa Ulto

Video Recording and Editing (Performances Only)

Stephanie Ogden
Gerard Zoehfeld
ndlela nkobi

Sound Recording and Soundfile Production

Terence Pender
Christopher Bailey
Malcolm Goodman

Content Development

John Frankfurt

Pierrot lunaire translations

Ingolf Dahle and Carl Beier, revised by Ian Bent (German-English)
Daniel Johnson, revised by Ian Bent (French-English)

Pierrot lunaire Performances

Pierrot lunaire was composed by Arnold Schoenberg, text by Giraud and translation by Hartleben, reciter Janet Steele, ensemble directed by Michel Galante. Video shot, edited, and compressed by Stephanie Ogden and Gerard Zoehfeld of CCNTML. Performers include:
Janet Steele (reciter)
Jill Sokol (flute/piccolo)
Carol McGonnell (clarinet/bass clarinet)
Gabriela Rengel (violin/viola)
Joanne Lin (cello)
Michel Galante (piano; director)

Additional Musical Performances

Marilyn Nonken

Narrators

John Smalley
Mark Burford
Anne Gefell
David Lyczkowski
Jennifer Rittner

Paintings and Drawings

All paintings and drawings by Arnold Schoenberg courtesy of the Schoenberg family/Belmont Music Publishers.

"JASI" = Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Society, volume II number 3 (June 1978). JASI numbers are catalogue number in the Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute:

Kandinsky quote courtesy of JASI: Wassily Kandinsky ,"Die Bilder", Arnold Schoenberg (R.Piper & Co.: Munich, 1912), pp.59-64, translated from German into English by Barbara Zeisl, Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, Vol. 2 No. 3 (June 1978), pp.181-184

Schoenberg, Lawrence and Kravitz, Ellen: "Catalog of Schoenberg's Paintings, Drawings and Sketches" in Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute 2 (June 1978) no. 3.

Artworks according to JASI order can be found in the Arnold Schoenberg Center's site

Tournee du Chat Noir - Collections of CCNMTL

Title page of Pierrot Lunaire Score - Libraries of Columbia University

Cover, Hartleben Translation of Giraux's Pierrot Lunaire - Libraries of Columbia University

Header Image (all site pages) CCNMTL composition with detail from Hartleben Translation of Giraux's Pierrot Lunaire - Libraries of Columbia University

Special Thanks

Lawrence Schoenberg
Belmont Music Publishers
Gardner P. Dunnan
George R. Steel

This e-seminar is the result of a collaboration between the following Columbia University departments and other organizations:

Music Department, Columbia University
Music Humanities Staff, Columbia University
Music and Arts Library
Columbia University Computer Music Center
Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
Kathryn Bache Miller Theater
Provost's Office
Virtual Reading Room Project

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