Stockhausen on Music: Lectures and Interviews / Edition 1

by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robin Maconie

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714529189
Publisher:	Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Publication date:	09/01/2000
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	7
	Introduction	9
Part 1
	About my childhood	15
	On the musical gift	24
	Points and Groups	33
	Composing statistically	43
	Lyric and dramatic form	53
	Moment-forming and MOMENTE	63
	Microphony	76
	Four criteria of electronic music	88
	Intuitive music	112
Part 2
	Some questions and answers	129
	Afterword--Beauty and necessity	172

Editorial Reviews

The leading German composer of electronic music presents his theories of composition and performance. Transcribed from a series of public lectures given in English in 1971, and a long interview with Maconie in 1981, the book covers electronic, chance and intuitive music, process planning and other trends in avant-garde composition. Maconie ( The Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen ) has retained the flavor of Stockhausen's English, revealing much of the composer's personality as he talks about his sources of inspiration and describes in detail his composing methods. Stockhausen's lectures contain penetrating philosophical and spiritual observations on his lifelong involvement with sound and his desire to build an aural tradition. Published on the occasion of the composer's 60th birthday, the book includes a chronological list of Stockhausen's works and a discography. (Jan.)

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