New Music

Books on new music, contemporary composition, sound theory, music aesthetics, and perspectives from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Daily Sounds All Around

Everyday noises become sound sculptures and can be experienced in a new way.

14,00 €

Plowed Time

A representative cross-section of the composer's extensive music-related writings.

24,00 €

Not, List und Lust

New edition: edition second, greatly expanded edition. Music between conformity and truth.

29,80 €

Musikästhetik

A multifaceted musical aesthetic that understands music as an autonomous form of expression with its own cognitive quality. For anyone who wants to understand music more deeply.

39,00 €

Jennifer Walshe

Jennifer Walshe develops a “New Discipline”: performative music as a multimedia search for identity.

15,00 € – 19,00 €

Kadenz und Gegenwart

An analysis of Froberger’s allemandes as mental spaces of time situated between composition, tonality, and the existential experience of time.

19,00 €

Dimitri Schostakowitsch

Shostakovich's music as a musical testimony to his time – a powerful monograph about fear, hope, and the power of art.

28,00 €

Rihm und Artaud / Rihm et Artaud

Rihm's music theater demonstrates how Artaud's theatrical concept influenced his compositional language.

29,00 €

Untersuchung des Begriffes „Klangfläche“

A theory of soundscapes and analysis of post-serial structural principles.

19,00 €

Umgepflügte Zeit

A unique dialog about Klaus Huber's work accompanied by sketches, analyses and a catalog raisonné.

38,00 €

Der Komponisten Mut und die Tyrannei des Geschmacks

Insights into the struggle with sound, form, and meaning: conversations with composers about what lies behind the music.

24,00 €

Perspectives for Contemporary Music in the 21st Century

An interdisciplinary anthology on the present and future of new music.

24,00 €

Der Fall Hindemith

The “Hindemith Case”: Between Nazi Cultural Policy, Public Protest, and Musical Resistance.

17,00 €

The Musical Legacy of Karlheinz Stockhausen

A fresh look at the legacy of Karlheinz Stockhausen—musical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary.

22,00 €

Alexi Matchavariani

Alexi Matchavariani blended Georgian folk music with contemporary composition—a portrait of his work, situated between cultural identity and modernity.

29,00 €

Kompositorische Sprachübertragung in zeitgenössischer Instrumentalmusik

The book shows how contemporary music conveys language intermedially, thereby developing new compositional strategies.

39,00 €