Pierrot Lunaire, a melodrama by Arnold Schoenberg is a song cycle. It contains a group of </span><span>21 selected poems, which are</span><span> individually complete. Typically, a songs in a song cycle are</span> designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.
The most unique feature of “The Ninth” was that Beethoven included chorus and vocal soloists in the final movement. He was the first major composer to do this in a symphony.
