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Music books and specialized literature on contemporary music, jazz, music education, sound art, biographies, and music history.

Book cover: Isang Yun

Isang Yun

Isang Yun. Life and Work in Pictures 윤이상. 사진으로 보는 인생과 예술. The first pictorial monograph on the Korean-German composer Isang Yun.

48,00 €
Book cover: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

For this publication, several pianists have come together to paint a picture of the great Italian's art in interviews.

28,00 €
Book cover: Wilhelm Furtwängler

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Furtwängler’s Life Between Music, Power, and Myth – A New Perspective by Herbert Haffner.

46,00 €
Book cover: Cross-genre composition: encoding characters in the chamber opera I.th.Ak.A. using semiotic elements derived from commercial music genres

Cross-genre composition: encoding characters in the chamber opera I.th.Ak.A. with semiotic elements derived from commercial music genres

A study of cross-genre composition at the intersection of opera, pop, semiotics, and contemporary culture.

0,00 €
Book cover: Desert Plants

Desert Plants

A unique contemporary document of experimental music history.

29,00 €
Book cover: Adorno

Adorno

This book offers a well-founded reinterpretation of Theodor W. Adorno's thinking—beyond glamorous adoration and blanket criticism.

28,00 €
Book Cover: Lord Berners’ Songs

Lord Berners’ Lieder

The question of the intertextual structure of the work.

28,00 €
Book Cover: Music as History – History as Music

Musik als Geschichte – Geschichte als Musik

In Caprices 4, Stefan Litwin uncovers a sounding autobiography in Schönberg's piano concerto.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Music as an Event

Musik als Ereignis

50 years of musica nova Reutlingen – Music as an event in history, theory, and sound.

12,00 €
Book Cover: Teaching Free Improvisation

Vermittlung Freier Improvisation

This compendium contains fundamental considerations as well as numerous practical instructions and exercises.

20,00 €
Book Cover: Shostakovich and the Two Avant-Gardes of the 20th Century

Schostakowitsch und die beiden Avantgarden des 20. Jahrhunderts

This volume brings together the results of the most recent symposia of the German Shostakovich Society and sheds light on Shostakovich's relationship to the musical avant-garde of the 20th century.

32,00 €
Book Cover: Heroines of Sound

Heroines of Sound

A panorama of electronic music and a compendium on gender and diversity in sound art.

24,00 €
Book cover: Mieczysław Weinberg

Mieczysław Weinberg

A life marked by oppression—and unwavering musical devotion.
Second edition of the first monograph on Mieczysław Weinberg.

16,99 € – 24,00 €
Book cover: “There Are Still Songs to Be Sung Beyond Humanity”

„Es sind noch Lieder zu singen jenseits der Menschen“

This book uses numerous case studies to illustrate the complex relationship between poetry and music in Aribert Reimann's work.

48,00 €
Book Cover: Masterpieces of Music

Schlüsselwerke der Musik

For anyone who wants to gain an entertaining overview of the central works of European-influenced art music in history and the present day.

26,80 €
Book Cover: Time Pierced

Die durchbohrte Zeit

Caprices 3 contains observations of works from the perspective and practice of a conductor.

8,00 €

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