New Music & Aesthetics in the 21st Century

A groundbreaking series dedicated to independent thinking in contemporary music. Here, composers, theorists, and artists explore how music reflects and shapes the world we live in. Essays that transcend the boundaries between sound, philosophy, and aesthetics, defining what it means to listen and create today.

Perspectives for Contemporary Music in the 21st Century

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

24,00 €

Substance an Content in Music Today

In what way is music more than immanence, structure, and autonomous meaning, and to what extent do "non-musical" ideas and concepts shape a work?

22,00 €

Musical Material Today

New music after postmodernism: 12 composers explore the expanded material and its meanings.

24,00 €

From Time – to Time. The Complete Œuvre

A dialogue on Klaus Huber's work with sketches, analyses and catalogue.

29,00 €

Facets of the Second Modernity

Ten composers reflect on a new aesthetic: on the way to a second modernism in music and thought.

24,00 €

Critical Composition Today

What is critical composition today? This book explores its role in the context of modernism, politics, and postmodern challenges.

22,00 €

Polyphony & Complexity

Complex music since the 1980s: Composers and theorists explore polyphony, form and new musical thinking.

18,99 €

Musical Morphology

What do figure, gesture or melody mean today? Composers explore form beyond sound in new music.

22,00 €

The Foundations of Contemporary Composing

Composing Today: This book explores theory, practice and reflection in contemporary composing.

22,00 €

Electronics in New Music

12 composers explore today's technology-driven possibilities of music and sound.

24,00 €