In schoenberg’s pierrot lunaire, pierrot is a "troubled clown".
Pierrot lunaire marks an arrival to antithesis and anticipates the requested atonality of serialism. Nonetheless, the part of Schoenberg's Expressionist style which had the best effect on later arrangers was his origination of music as a free, twelve-tone chromatic field where any design of pitches could go about as a "standard."
