La transposition la plus célèbre du Pierrot lunaire est le Pierrot lunaire d'Arnold Schönberg, composition atonale de 1912 sur la traduction d'Otto Erich Hartleben.
↑Pour une histoire générale de Pierrot, voir Storey 1978.
Références
Brinkmann, Reinhold (1997). "The fool as paradigm: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and the modern artist". In (en) Boehmer, Konrad, ed., Schoenberg and Kandinsky : an historic encounter, Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, , 224 p. (ISBN90-5702-046-7)
(en) Delaere, Mark, and Jan Herman, eds., Pierrot lunaire : Albert Giraud, Otto Erich Hartleben, Arnold Schoenberg : une collection d'études musico-littéraires . . ., Louvain and Paris, Editions Peeters, , 204 p. (ISBN90-429-1455-6)
Lehmann, A.G. (1967). "Pierrot and fin de siècle". In Romantic mythologies, ed. Ian Fletcher. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Marsh, Roger (2007a). "'A multicoloured alphabet': rediscovering Albert Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire". Twentieth-Century Music, 4:1 (March): 97–121.
Marsh, Roger (2007b). Livret accompagnant le CD : Roger Marsh—Albert Giraud's Pierrot lunaire, fifty rondels bergamasques. With The Hilliard Ensemble, Red Byrd, Juice, Ebor Singers & Paul Gameson director, Linda Hirst, Joe Marsh narrator. NMC Recordings: Cat. No. NMC D127.
(en) Palacio, Jean de, Pierrot fin-de-siècle, ou, Les Métamorphoses d'un masque, Paris, Séguier, (ISBN2-87736-089-X)
(en) Robert F. Storey, Pierrots on the stage of desire : nineteenth-century French literary artists and the comic pantomime, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, (ISBN0-691-06628-0)