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

Book cover: Cross-section

Querschnitt

Witten as a laboratory and stage for the unheard.

32,00 

Book Cover: Cause and Wit

Ursache und Vorwitz

Zimmermann's work from its beginnings to the present day in conversation with Richard Toop.

29,00 

Book Cover: Audio Analysis

Höranalyse

The volume develops a new, perception-based approach to listening analysis and critically and practically questions score-centered myths of music theory.

12,00 15,00 

Book cover: Moses Fantasy

Moses-Fantasie

An introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.

8,00 

Book cover: “Followed by German songs”

„Dem folgt deutscher Gesang“

Adorno's miniature on Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz is more than a tribute—it is an artful, yet ambivalent declaration of love.

8,00 

Book cover: Smetak’s Inventions

Smetak’s Inventions

Book from the DAAD exhibition Smetak’s Inventions in Berlin.

22,00 

Book Cover: In Search of a New Form of Musical Theater

Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Musiktheater

The study opens up new perspectives on performativity and representation, which shape political discourses beyond Nono's music theater.

48,00 

Book cover: Finding Music

Finding Music

Music that seeks what others warn against: predictability as an artistic principle.

38,00 

Book cover: Live Electronics at the SWR Experimental Studio

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 

Book Cover: Scream and Utopia

Schrei und Utopie

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

34,00 

Book Cover: Music with Music

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 

Book cover: Jazz @ 100

Jazz @ 100

Marking jazz's centenary, 15 essays explore diverse voices and challenge the myths that shaped how we understand jazz history and aesthetics today. / Marking jazz's centenary, 15 essays explore diverse voices and challenge the myths that shaped how we understand jazz history and aesthetics today.

28,00 

Book cover: Don’t Think Positive

Don’t think positive

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

19,00 

Book cover: Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

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

29,00 

Book Cover: Music of the USA

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 

Book Cover: Ludwig Thuille and the Munich School

Ludwig Thuille und die Münchner Schule

This book examines composition theory and practice in Munich at the turn of the 20th century.

46,00 

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