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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)

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)

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