books

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

Jennifer Walshe

Jennifer Walshe develops a “New Discipline”: performative music as a multimedia search for identity.

15,00 € – 19,00 €

Kadenz und Gegenwart

An analysis of Froberger’s allemandes as mental spaces of time situated between composition, tonality, and the existential experience of time.

19,00 €

Dimitri Schostakowitsch

Shostakovich's music as a musical testimony to his time – a powerful monograph about fear, hope, and the power of art.

28,00 €

Rihm und Artaud / Rihm et Artaud

Rihm's music theater demonstrates how Artaud's theatrical concept influenced his compositional language.

29,00 €

Untersuchung des Begriffes „Klangfläche“

A theory of soundscapes and analysis of post-serial structural principles.

19,00 €

Umgepflügte Zeit

A unique dialog about Klaus Huber's work accompanied by sketches, analyses and a catalog raisonné.

38,00 €

Der Komponisten Mut und die Tyrannei des Geschmacks

Insights into the struggle with sound, form, and meaning: conversations with composers about what lies behind the music.

24,00 €

Perspectives for Contemporary Music in the 21st Century

An interdisciplinary anthology on the present and future of new music.

24,00 €

Graphic Works 1959-2016

Brötzmann's graphic work is—like his music—raw, unmistakable, and deeply personal: a bold visual language influenced by Fluxus, advertising, and an uncompromising inner logic.

49,00 €

Ein halbes Jahrhundert Musik

A unique exchange of letters between two musicians - personal, poetic and historically deeply moving.

49,00 €

Der Fall Hindemith

The “Hindemith Case”: Between Nazi Cultural Policy, Public Protest, and Musical Resistance.

17,00 €

Gender and Identity in Jazz

This volume contributes to an important discourse.

28,00 €

The Musical Legacy of Karlheinz Stockhausen

A fresh look at the legacy of Karlheinz Stockhausen—musical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary.

22,00 €

Stockhausen unterwegs zu Wagner

The study shows how Stockhausen takes up and transforms central ideas from Wagner in LICHT —as a continuation rather than a break with music history.

44,00 €

Alexi Matchavariani

Alexi Matchavariani blended Georgian folk music with contemporary composition—a portrait of his work, situated between cultural identity and modernity.

29,00 €

Kompositorische Sprachübertragung in zeitgenössischer Instrumentalmusik

The book shows how contemporary music conveys language intermedially, thereby developing new compositional strategies.

39,00 €