Caprices

The Caprices series brings together short texts with a big impact: incisive essays, reflections, sketches, and flights of fancy about listening to, thinking about, and living with music. Open, ongoing, always surprising.

Book Cover: A Shorter Bad Boy of Music

A Shorter Bad Boy of Music

Peters' book decodes George Antheil's "Bad Boy" memoirs. Truth and fiction dance like his music: brilliant, provocative, full of twists and turns!

9,50 €
Book cover: Specters of Kranichstein

Kranichsteiner Gespenster / Specters of Kranichstein

This volume evokes the repressed mind criticism in Darmstadt.

8,99 € – 12,00 €
Book cover: Music Is Me!

La musique, c’est moi!

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

10,00 €
Book cover: Play Me the Song of Giacomo

Spiel mir das Lied von Giacomo

Puccini, charming and melodious, shapes opera films and Hollywood soundtracks; Busoni, on the other hand, provokes modernism with visions of a new aesthetic.

9,50 €
Book Cover: Oh, Philosophy!

Habe nun ach! Philosophie

From buffo-philosopher to musical theater hero - thinkers heard anew on the opera stage.

9,50 €
Book Cover: On the Transmission of Sounds

Zur Überlieferung der Klänge

Peter Hirsch considers the extent to which Benjamin's concept of "transmissibility" can be significant for musical tradition.

9,50 €
Book cover: Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns

"I, on the other hand, pursued the chimera of purity of style and perfection of form", Saint-Saëns wrote in 1885, directing his "énergie intellectuelle" towards classicism in the midst of romantic seduction.

9,50 €
Book cover: Parlez-moi d’amour

Parlez-moi d’amour

French chansons from the years 1870 to 1940 impressively embody the painful times of social upheaval.

9,50 €
Book Cover: The Avant-Garde Was a Mistake

Die Avantgarde war ein Irrtum

A life spent between musical avant-garde, political exile, and biting satire.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Cosmic Dreamscapes

Cosmic Dreamscapes

This volume explores the enigmatic work of Charles Ives—situated between American utopianism and the European compositional tradition.

9,50 €
Book Cover: Sighing For The Silvery Moon

Sighing For The Silvery Moon

Music hall songs are time capsules that reflect the former hopes and character of a nation.

9,50 €
Book Cover: Musical Constructions of Home

Musikalische Heimatkonstruktionen

The study shows how music shapes the concept of 'home' and cultural identity. Various aesthetic approaches are analyzed based on works by Heuckes and Neuwirth.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Faith, Love, Hope

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung

Three authors whose works are pervaded by music in unexpected ways.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Gaps in the Process

Lücken im Ablauf

Reflections on the unpredictable in musical art since Mozart.

9,00 €
Book cover: “… one more step on the road to understanding humanity”

„… one more step on the road to understanding humanity“

This study examines how music is staged in the Star Trek series as an integral part of a humanistic vision of the future.

9,00 €
Book Cover: Musical Bread

Musikalisches Brot

From Wagner's vision of a better world order to the radical ideas of the brilliant dilettante Jean Cocteau.

9,50 €

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