New Music

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

Morphologie in der Musik

This study is three things in one: conceptual history, theory, and analysis.

48,00 €

„Alles kommt ans Licht“

A self-portrait of a composer: Rihm on his origins, attitude and artistic thinking.

9,50 €

Guernica

This study analyzes Picasso’s masterpiece as an aesthetically multifaceted response to total destruction and examines its impact within the context of abstract expressionism and political iconography.

9,00 €

LABYRINTHUS. HIC HABITAT MUSICA.

This study illuminates ergodic scores from their theoretical foundations.

48,00 €

Homo Audiens

"Composing is ultimately 'listening', and through 'listening' the self opens up to the outside, to the other."

32,00 €

Anthony Braxton. Creative Music

This richly illustrated book traces Braxton's career in a detailed overall presentation. A portrait of a pioneer of creative music.

68,00 €

Die Filmmusik zu Sergej Ėjzenštejns „Ivan Groznyj“

An audiovisual analysis based on the synchronized original score in the field of tension between ideology, art and audiovisuality.

18,00 €

Musik der Zeit 2: 1998–2021

On its 70th anniversary, the continuation of the WDR series Musik der Zeit (Music of the Times).

18,00 €

His Master’s Voice

Entertaining, exciting and highly informative, Herbert Haffner tells the story of sound recording from its beginnings with cylinders to today's streaming portals.

24,00 €

Briefe an Iwan Sollertinski

Nowhere does the Soviet composer reveal himself as candidly as in his letters to his best friend, Ivan Sollertinsky.

36,00 €

Ein Konzert ist eine Feuerstelle

Exploring the "nature of being," immersing oneself in the rituals of indigenous peoples, constantly pushing artistic boundaries.

29,00 €

Alles so schön still hier

The author sheds light on one of the most exciting genres in contemporary music.

24,00 €

Der bewegliche Klang

The texts examine the changes and continuities of a 'tone of resistenza' in Nono's early work.

9,00 €

Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement

The essays collected in this volume shed light on the potential and challenges of media-integrated piano composition from three perspectives: Musicology, interpretation and composition.

20,00 € – 29,00 €

Dynamische Schwingungen. mit Händen und Füßen gespielt

The book is an artist's book, a comprehensive documentation of Sven-Åke Johansson's compositions and musical concepts as well as the relevant texts.

29,00 €

Eine kurze Geschichte der Oper

You can pick up this book like a hiking guide and let it accompany you from tour to tour through the landscape of opera.

26,00 €