books

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

Artur Schnabel. Werkverzeichnis

The catalog of works provides the basis for scholarly examination of Schnabel's compositions.

19,00 €

Sándor Veress – Aufsätze, Vorträge, Briefe

In addition to the composer, the book aims to reveal Veress as a researcher and thinker. Illustrations from sketches and scores as well as letters round off the picture.

15,00 €

Kranichsteiner Gespenster / Specters of Kranichstein

This volume evokes the repressed mind criticism in Darmstadt.

8,99 € – 12,00 €

„Jedenfalls werden wir uns alle dort treffen…“

An engaging book about a time of cultural awakening - and about structural oblivion.

26,99 € – 36,00 €

Musiktheatralität im Schaffen von Georges Aperghis

First comprehensive German-language dissertation on Georges Aperghis, one of Europe's most important contemporary music theater composers.

49,00 €

Monheim Papers II

The Monheim Papers II provides a multi-layered insight into the artistic universe of the Monheim Triennale 2025.

20,00 €

Water Me. Exhibition catalogue

*Water Me* brings together the voices, works and reflections of a transnational collective of artists, performers and thinkers who have come together in ZIRKA's aquarium to imagine alternative futures.

12,00 €

Begriffliches Hören

Welcome to the Institute for Institutional Critique. "I have three or four good ideas a year."

26,00 €

Dvořáks Prophezeiung

About hidden aspects of American music history and the composer Antonín Dvořák.

34,00 €

Dynamic Vibrations. Played with Hands and Feet

A cross-genre artist's book with compositions, texts, drawings and insights into his radical approach to music and art.

29,00 €

Rued Langgaard

The biography of the Danish composer on the occasion of the Berlin performance of the opera “Antikrist“.

24,00 € – 28,00 €

REWORK: EMBEDDING CREATIVE PROCESSES OF REMIX IN THE CHAMBER OPERA LA LUNA

This thesis uses methods of artistic research to create a theoretical framework for examining Lorenzo Romano's compositional practice.

49,00 €

Musikhochschulen als Resonanzkörper der Gesellschaft

In light of societal change, what missions should conservatories pursue, and how is their specific educational mandate evolving between tradition and innovation—or between preservation and renewal?

28,00 €

Perspectives on Sylvano Bussotti

This volume illuminates the work of the Italian composer from a multi-layered and multi-perspective perspective.

32,00 €

Resonanz / Resonance

New perspectives on the aesthetic and performative dimensions of contemporary music.

28,00 € – 34,00 €

La musique, c’est moi!

Boulez wrote polemically and precisely. Driven by the desire to rethink music.

10,00 €