New Music

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

nothing is original!

From the perspective of appropriation art, Bauer questions artistic categories such as original, repetition, and difference.

34,00 €

Cause and Curiosity

A book about the composer's work.

38,00 €

Dear Billy

The book sheds light on the life of William Pearson in the field of tension between new music, racism and artistic emancipation.

38,00 €

Die Schönberg Challenge

Becher describes and listens to twelve works by Schoenberg with his readers. A playlist supports the listening experience.

24,00 €

Politik des Hörens

This book considers hearing as a political asset—inspired by Luigi Nono's music.

32,00 €

Schnee von morgen

For a long time, it seemed perfectly clear what musical theater was and where it should take place. But what does the future hold? What might the future of musical theater look like?

25,00 €

George Gershwin

The biography of a composer whose symphonic and operatic music ranges from blue notes to double counterpoint, bitonality, and the Tristan chord.

32,00 €

Die Mahlers in New York

Gustav Mahler was not made for New York ... he had more important things to do. Gustav and Alma Mahler from an American perspective.

34,00 €

Sinusoidal Run Rhythm – Print

The sinusoidal running rhythm thus understands rhythm as a wave and clearly differs from the conventional rhythm theory of the European musical tradition.

29,00 €

Perpetuum. Mein Leben durch Musik

In this book, Darmstadt-based composer Barbara Heller writes about her life as a musician and composer.

28,00 €

Die Avantgarde war ein Irrtum

A life spent between musical avant-garde, political exile, and biting satire.

9,00 €

Music Autopsies

The book explores music’s critical potential to interrogate history, ideology, and power. Benjamin Dwyer offers eclectic insights into composers, improvisation, and music’s broader cultural reach.

28,00 €

Ins Unbekannte

Analysis of Polyphonie X, Boulez's early, legendary serial experiment.

46,00 €

Now! Writings 1982–2021

A pivotal collection of Peter Ablinger’s writings (1982–2021), exploring listening, language, and the nature of sound.

38,00 €

Alvin Lucier’s Reflexive Experimental Aesthetics

Making the normally inaudible audible—that is the groundbreaking work of Alvin Lucier.

36,00 €

Cosmic Dreamscapes

This volume explores the enigmatic work of Charles Ives—situated between American utopianism and the European compositional tradition.

9,50 €