The series
The music magazine die Reihe was a publication on the topic of serial music , which was edited from 1955 to 1962 by Herbert Eimert with the collaboration of Karlheinz Stockhausen in the publishing house Universal Edition Vienna. The title refers to the twelve-tone row , which is the constituent element of twelve-tone music. It was a forum for the music-theoretical discourse on New Music in the succession of the Vienna School , in which well-known composers expressed their views. A total of eight issues were published, which were also published by the publishing house Theodore Presser Company (Bryn Mawr: Pennsylvania) between 1958 and 1968 in the English edition with the German original titles. There was also a series of books in the series , but it does not seem to have gotten beyond one edition.
Volume 1: Electronic Music (1955)
- Greetings to Hanns Hartmann
- Preface
- Herbert Eimert : The seven pieces
- Karel Goeyvaerts : The electronic sound material
- HH Stuckenschmidt : The third epoch
- Giselher Klebe : First practical work
- Werner Meyer-Eppler : Statistical and psychological sound problems
- Gottfried Michael Koenig : studio technology
- Ernst Krenek : Looking over the shoulder of the younger generation
- Paul Gredinger : The serial
- Henri Pousseur : Structures of the New Building Material
- Pierre Boulez : On the border of the fruit country
- Karlheinz Stockhausen : News
Volume 2: Anton Webern (1955)
Part 1: Documents - Confessions
- Igor Stravinsky : Foreword
- Friedrich Wildgans : Biographical table
- Directory of works
- Hildegard Jone : A cantata
- Arnold Schoenberg : Foreword to the Six Bagatelles
- Anton Webern : Confession to Schoenberg
- The conductor Anton Webern
- Ernst Krenek: The stone that the builders discarded has become the cornerstone
- Ernst Krenek: From the correspondence
- Ernst Krenek: The UE lecturer
- Anton Webern: Choralis Constantinus
Part 2: Findings - Analyzes
- Herbert Eimert: The necessary correction
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: As of September 15, 1955
- Pierre Boulez: For Anton Webern
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger : Webern and Schönberg
- Leopold Spinner : An Analysis (Concerto for 9 Instruments, 2nd Movement)
- Henri Pousseur: Webern's organic chromaticism (1st bagatelle)
- Christian Wolff : Controlled Movement (selection of works)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Structure and time of experience (string quartet, 2nd movement)
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger: Analysis of the Spiritual Song op.15 No. 4
- Armin Klammer : Webern's Variations for piano, 3rd movement
- Herbert Eimert: Interval proportions (string quartet, 1st movement)
Volume 3: musical craft (1957)
- Herbert Eimert: On the composer's freedom of choice
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: ... how time flies ...
- John Cage : Description of the method of composition used in Music for Piano 21-52
- Henri Pousseur: On the methodology
Volume 4: Young Composers (1958)
- Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski : Young composers
- Udo Unger: Luigi Nono: Polifonica - Monodia - Ritmica: Il canto sospeso
- Gottfried Michael Koenig: Henri Pousseur
- Rudolf Stephan : Hans Werner Henze
- György Ligeti : Pierre Boulez. Decision and automation in Structure Ia
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger: Intermezzo I: The aging of the philosophy of new music
- Herbert Eimert: Intermezzo II
- Gottfried Michael Koenig: Bo Nilsson
- Wolf-Eberhard von Lewinski: Giselher Klebe
- Piero Santi : Luciano Berio
- Reinhold Schubert: Bernd Alois Zimmermann
- Giacomo Manzoni : Bruno Maderna
- Dieter Schnebel : Karlheinz Stockhausen
Volume 5: Reports - Analysis (1959)
- Herbert Eimert: Debussy's Jeux
- Mauricio Kagel : clay clusters, strokes, transitions
- György Ligeti: To the III. Piano sonata by Boulez
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger Failed concepts in theory and criticism of music
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Electronic and instrumental music
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Music in Space
- Gottfried Michael Koenig: Studying in the studio
- Hans G Helms : On John Cage's lecture "Indeterminacy"
- John Cage : Indeterminacy [translation and spatial arrangement: Hans G. Helms]
Volume 6: Language and Music (1960)
- Hans Rudolf Zeller : Mallarmé and serial thinking
- Dieter Schnebel: Brouillards. Trends at Debussy
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Music and Language
- Nicolas Ruwet : On the contradictions of serial language
- Henri Pousseur: Music, Form and Practice (To remove some contradictions)
Issue 7: Form - Space (1960)
- György Ligeti: Changes in musical form
- Ursula Burghardt -Kagel: Amancio Williams' space theater
- Christian Wolff: About form
- Mauricio Kagel: Translation - Rotation
- John Whitney: Motion Pictures and Electronic Music
- Rainer Fleischhauer / Jörn Janssen: Building construction for 200,000 E
- Jörn Janssen: First project
Issue 8: Retrospectives (1962)
- Herbert Eimert: Obituary for Werner Meyer-Eppler
- Werner Meyer-Eppler: Information -theoretical problems of musical communication
- Helmut Kirchmeyer: On the historical essence of rationalist music
- Walter Schulze-Andresen The three-dimensional sheet music
- Walter O'Conell: The sound room
- Adriaan Daniël Fokker : What for and why?
- Gottfried Michael Koenig: Comment
- Publications of the series
Books of the series
- Herbert Eimert: Fundamentals of musical serial technique , Vienna: Universal Edition 1964