New Music

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

Live Electronics im/in the SWR Experimentalstudio

For almost 50 years, SWR Experimentalstudio has been one of the most important innovation centers for live electronics and contemporary music.

34,00 €

Schrei und Utopie

Between “Cry and Utopia”: Musical Thought in the Context of Historical Depth and Utopian Horizons.

34,00 €

Musik mit Musik

The Aesthetics of Appropriation: Collected Texts by Johannes Kreidler on “Music with Music” at the Intersection of Composition, Media Art, and Digital Culture.

12,80 € – 19,80 €

Don’t think positive

The book highlights positivist trends in musicology and contributes to the current discussion on methodology.

19,00 €

Leonard Bernstein

A richly illustrated volume about Leonard Bernstein's multifaceted relationship with Vienna.

29,00 €

Musik der USA

60 years after the last German-language introduction to the music of the USA, here is another attempt to present the many different strands of development in American music history.

30,00 €

Process and Form: Selected Writings on Music

Gotttfried Michael Koenig shaped serialism, sonology, and algorithmic thinking — this volume presents key texts from 1954–2001.

32,00 €

Sätze über musikalische Konzeptkunst

I completely understand it when a musician today says: "I hate conceptualism, but I can't stand any other music."

16,00 € – 20,00 €

con tutta forza. Bernd Alois Zimmermann

A compelling portrait of the composer, caught between artistic vision and personal struggles—featuring unpublished documents, photos, and interviews.

39,00 €

Kammermusik der Gegenwart

This publication brings together 55 essays on the forms, questions, and facets of contemporary chamber music.

29,00 €

Klanglandschaften

On the diverse ways nature is reflected in music, from Schütz to Björk, exploring themes of imitation, sound ecology, and influences from the visual arts.

24,00 €

Salvatore Sciarrino. Vanitas

An interdisciplinary volume on Salvatore Sciarrino's composition Vanitas —with musicological, literary, and art-historical approaches to the aesthetics of transience.

28,00 €

»kunst ist das gegenteil von verarmung«

This analysis examines Hans-Joachim Hespos’ compositional strategies—which navigate the tension between excessive demands, theatricality, and notation—and demonstrates how his works deliberately engage with ambiguities in interpretation and reception.

28,00 €