Stockhausen on Music
by Karlheinz Stockhausen
from Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
If a genius is someone whose ideas survive all attempts at explanation', writes the well-known contemporary musicologist Robin Maconie, 'then by that definition Stockhausen is the nearest thing to Beethoven this century has produced. Reason? His music lasts.
With penetrating philosophical and spiritual insights Stockhausen describes, in this collection of lectures and interviews conducted in English, a whole new universe of sounds and events.
"Stockhausen's uncompromising attitude to conventional aesthetics has made him one of the world's most admired musicians."?The Independent
"Let there be no doubt that he is a giant, a monster cartographer of massive new spaces."?Tempo
"The great innovator of the 1950s and 1960s is still a fountain of ideas. Stockhausen on Music shows the extrordinary range of his mind."?The Sunday Times
Other Planets: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen
by Robin Maconie
from The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Here is a catalogue raisonee of Stockhausen's complete output, involving no technical analyses, but rather an examination of the music's aesthetic, practical, and intellectual assumptions. The book contains plentiful citations from the history of radio, film, and sound recording, and from contemporary science and technology. Laid out in strict chronological order, it contains unusually ample commentary on the composer's sources of inspiration, including discussions of the composers Hermann Schroeder, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, Herbert Eimert, John Cage, the information scientist Werner Meyer-Eppler, and structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Each of Stockhausen's compositions is treated on its own terms, and also as a piece in a larger puzzle, embracing surrealist art and literature as well as music. Every piece of music is fully documented within the text with full information of the publisher, catalogue number, instrumentation, duration, and composer-authorized compact disc.
Stockhausen serves imperialism, and other articles: With commentary and notes
Karlheinz Stockhausen Volume 1: German Language
from Schott
Towards a Cosmic Music
Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen
One of the most influential composers alive today, Stockhausen has dominated new music for over thirty-five years, pioneering advances in electronic music, multi-orchestra music, musical meditation, and music composers. This work, now in its second edition, remains the only overview of Stockhausen's music. Newly enlarged and revised, it now covers his compositions since 1976, including such major landmarks as Sirius and Licht. Depicting the development of his musical thought with clarity and insight, this survey will interest anyone involved with twentieth-century music.
Die Reihentechnik in Stockhausens Studie II
Teoria i estetyka awangardy muzycznej drugiej polowy XX wieku
Karlheinz Stockhausen-- wie die Zeit verging-- (Musik-Konzepte)
by Herman Sabbe
from Edition Text + Kritik
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstuck X: A contribution toward understanding serial technique : history, theory, analysis, practice, documentation
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