Music concepts

The music concepts are a musicological series that was founded in 1977 by Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn . The focus of the periodical is on the musical avant-garde of all epochs. Ulrich Tadday has been the publisher since 2004 .

Content orientation

Based on the musical aesthetics of Theodor W. Adorno , the series Music Concepts is not only dedicated to composers of the 20th century, who are regarded by the editors as progressive. The series combines musical tradition and innovation, past and present, by professing new music and considering older music. The music concepts either deal with a composer and his work or with a current problem that gives food for thought in terms of music aesthetics, history and sociology. The series is aimed not only at a musicologist but also at a readership interested in music.

history

The music concepts were published by Metzger and Riehn from the time they were founded in 1977 until the contract was terminated by the publisher edition text + kritik on December 31, 2003, and their editorial work now coincided with the series . continue musical concepts .

The musicologist Ulrich Tadday has been the editor of the music concepts since January 2004. The first volume he edited (No. 123) deals with the composer Charles Ives .

In 1983 the editorial team was awarded the German Critics' Prize.

Frequency of publication

The Music Concepts series is published four times a year. The booklets can be obtained individually or as a discounted subscription. Subscribers also receive the special volume, which is published annually, at a discounted price. A discounted subscription is available for students.

Volumes

1/2 - Claude Debussy , 1977; 2nd revised edition 1981, ISBN 3-921402-56-5 .
3 - Mozart. Is the Magic Flute a piece of work? , 1978
4 - Alban Berg. Chamber Music I , 1978; 2nd edition 1981, ISBN 3-88377-069-8 .
5 - Richard Wagner. How anti-Semitic can an artist be? , 1978; 3rd edition 1999, ISBN 3-921402-67-0 .
6 - Edgard Varèse. Looking Back at the Future , 1978; 2nd expanded edition 1983, ISBN 3-88377-150-3 .
7 - Leos Janácek , 1979
8 - Beethoven. The Problem of Interpretation , 1979; 2nd revised edition 1985, ISBN 3-88377-202-X .
9 - Alban Berg. Chamber Music II , 1979; 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-88377-015-9 .
10 - Giuseppe Verdi , 1979; 2nd revised edition 2001, ISBN 3-88377-661-0 .
11 - Erik Satie , 1980
12 - Franz Liszt , 1980, ISBN 3-88377-047-7 .
13 - Jacques Offenbach , 1980, ISBN 3-88377-048-5 .
14/15 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , 1980, ISBN 3-88377-055-8 .
16 - Dieter Schnebel , 1980, ISBN 3-88377-056-6 .
17/18 - Johann Sebastian Bach. The speculative late work , 1980; 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-88377-057-4 .
19 - Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... how time went by .. , 1981, ISBN 3-88377-084-1 .
20 - Luigi Nono , 1981, ISBN 3-88377-072-8 .
21 - Modest Musorgsky. Aspects of the Opera Work , 1981, ISBN 3-88377-093-0 .
22 - Béla Bartók , 1981, ISBN 3-88377-088-4 .
23/24 - Anton Bruckner , 1982, ISBN 3-88377-100-7 .
25 - Richard Wagner, Parsifal , 1982
26/27 - Josquin des Prés , 1982, ISBN 3-88377-130-9 .
28 - Olivier Messiaen , 1982, ISBN 3-88377-131-7 .
29/30 - Rudolf Kolisch. On the theory of performance , 1983
31 - Giacinto Scelsi , 1983
32/33 - Aleksandr Scriabin and the Scriabinists I , 1983, ISBN 3-88377-149-X .
34/35 - Igor Stravinsky , 1984, ISBN 3-88377-137-6 .
36 - Schönberg's Association for Private Musical Performances , 1984, ISBN 3-88377-170-8 .
37/38 - Aleksandr Scriabin and the Scriabinists II , 1984, ISBN 3-88377-171-6 .
39/40 - Ernst Křenek , 1984, ISBN 3-88377-185-6 .
41 - Joseph Haydn , 1985, ISBN 3-88377-186-4 .
42 - Johann Sebastian Bach. "Goldberg Variations" , 1985, ISBN 3-88377-197-X .
43/44 - Franco Evangelisti , 1985, ISBN 3-88377-212-7 .
45 - Fryderyk Chopin , 1985, ISBN 3-88377-198-8 .
46 - Vincenzo Bellini , 1985, ISBN 3-88377-213-5 .
47 - Domenico Scarlatti , 1986, ISBN 3-88377-229-1 .
48/49 - Morton Feldman , 1986
50/51 - Johann Sebastian Bach. The Passions , 1986, ISBN 3-88377-238-0 .
52 - Carl Maria von Weber , 1986, ISBN 3-88377-240-2 .
53 - György Ligeti , 1987
54/55 - Iannis Xenakis , 1987
56 - Ludwig van Beethoven. Analecta Varia , 1987, ISBN 3-88377-268-2 .
57/58 - Richard Wagner. Tristan and Isolde , 1987, ISBN 3-88377-269-0 .
59 - Richard Wagner. Between Beethoven and Schönberg , 1988, ISBN 3-88377-280-1 .
60 - Guillaume Dufay , 1988, ISBN 3-88377-281-X .
61/62 - Helmut Lachenmann , 1988
63/64 - Theodor W. Adorno. The composer , 1989, ISBN 3-88377-310-7 .
65 - Aimez-vous Brahms “the progressive”? , 1989, ISBN 3-88377-311-5 .
66 - Gottfried Michael Koenig , 1989, ISBN 3-88377-352-2 .
67/68 - Beethoven. Formal strategies of the late quartets , 1990, ISBN 3-88377-361-1 .
69 - Henri Pousseur , 1990, ISBN 3-88377-376-X .
70 - Johannes Brahms. The Second Symphony , 1990, ISBN 3-88377-377-8 .
71/72/73 - Witold Lutosławski , 1991, ISBN 3-88377-384-0 .
74 - Music and Dream , 1991
75 - Hugo Wolf , 1992, ISBN 3-88377-411-1 .
76/77 - Rudolf Kolisch - Tempo and Character in Beethoven's Music , 1992
78 - José Luis de Delás , 1992, ISBN 3-88377-431-6 .
79/80 - Bach defended against his interpreters , 1993, ISBN 3-88377-437-5 .
81 - Author's music. Language at the border of the arts , 1993
82 - Jean Barraqué , 1993, ISBN 3-88377-449-9 .
83/84 - Claudio Monteverdi. From Madrigal to Monody , 1994, ISBN 3-88377-450-2 .
85 - Erich Itor Kahn , 1994, ISBN 3-88377-481-2 .352-0.
86 - Palestrina. Between disassembly and rescue , 1994, ISBN 3-88377-482-0 .
87 - Johann Sebastian Bach. The choral setting as a musical work of art , 1995, ISBN 3-88377-494-4 .
88 - Claudio Monteverdi. About the Birth of the Opera , 1995, ISBN 3-88377-495-2 .
89/90 - Pierre Boulez , 1995, ISBN 3-88377-506-1 .
91 - Gustav Mahler. The unknown acquaintance , 1996, ISBN 3-88377-521-5 .
92/93/94 - Alexander Zemlinsky. The King Kandaules , 1996, ISBN 3-88377-546-0 .
95 - Schumann and Eichendorff , 1997, ISBN 3-88377-522-3 .
96 - Pierre Boulez II , 1997, ISBN 3-88377-558-4 .
97/98 - Franz Schubert. "Death Music" , 1997, ISBN 3-88377-572-X .
99 - WA Mozart. Innovation and practice. To the quintet KV 452 , 1998, ISBN 3-88377-578-9 .
100 - What does progress mean? , 1998
101/102 - Kurt Weill. The early works 1916–1928 , 1998, ISBN 3-88377-590-8 .
103/104 - Hans Rott. The founder of the new symphony , 1999, ISBN 3-88377-608-4 .
105 - Giovanni Gabrieli. Quantus vir , 1999, ISBN 3-88377-618-1 .
106 - Gustav Mahler. Enforced? , 1999, ISBN 3-88377-619-X .
107 - Perotinus Magnus , 2000, ISBN 3-88377-629-7 .
108 - Hector Berlioz. Artist's autopsy , 2000, ISBN 3-88377-630-0 .
109/110 - Isang Yun. The five symphonies , 2000, ISBN 3-88377-644-0 .
111 - Hans G Helms. Music between business and falsehood , 2001, ISBN 3-88377-659-9 .
112/113 - Schönberg and the spoken song , 2001, ISBN 3-88377-660-2 .
114 - Franz Schubert. The measure of time in his piano work , 2001, ISBN 3-88377-673-4 .
115 - Max Reger. On the organ work , 2002, ISBN 3-88377-700-5 .
116 - Haydn's string quartets. A modern genre , 2002, ISBN 3-88377-701-3 .
117/118 - Arnold Schönberg's "Berlin School" , 2002, ISBN 3-88377-715-3 .
119 - Johann Sebastian Bach. What does "sound = speech" mean? , 2003, ISBN 3-88377-731-5 .
120/121/122 - Bruckner's Ninth in Purgatory of Reception , 2003, ISBN 3-88377-738-2 .

New episode

123 - Charles Ives , 2004, ISBN 3-88377-760-9 .
124 - Mauricio Kagel , 2004, ISBN 3-88377-761-7 .
125/126 - The late Hindemith , 2004, ISBN 3-88377-781-1 .
127 - Edvard Grieg , 2005, ISBN 3-88377-783-8 .
128 - Luciano Berio , 2005, ISBN 3-88377-784-6 .
129/130 - Richard Strauss. The Greek Teuton , 2005, ISBN 3-88377-809-5 .
131 - Handel among Germans , 2006, ISBN 3-88377-829-X .
132 - Hans Werner Henze. Music and Language , 2006, ISBN 3-88377-830-3 .
133/134 - In the White Horse Inn. Between Art and Commerce , 2006, ISBN 3-88377-841-9 .
135 - Arthur Honegger , 2007
136 - Gustav Mahler. Songs , 2007
137/138 - Klaus Huber , 2007
139 - Aribert Reimann , 2008
140 - Brian Ferneyhough , 2008
141/142 - Frederick Delius , 2008
143 - Galina Ustvolskaya , 2009
144/145 - Wilhelm Killmayer , 2009
146 - Helmut Lachenmann , 2009
147 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Simplicius Simplicissimus , 2010
148/149 - Heinrich Isaac , 2010
150 - Stefan Wolpe I , 2010
151 - Arthur Sullivan , 2011
152/153 - Stefan Wolpe II , 2011
154 - Maurice Ravel , 2011
155 - Mathias Spahlinger , 2012
156/157 - Paul Dukas , 2012
158 - Luigi Dallapiccola , 2012
159 - Edward Elgar , 2013
160/161 - Adriana Hölszky , 2013
162 - Allan Pettersson , 2013
163 - Albéric Magnard , 2014
164/165 - Luca Lombardi , 2014
166 - Jörg Widmann , 2014
167 - Mark Andre , 2015
168/169 - Nicolaus A. Huber , 2015
170 - Benjamin Britten , 2015
171 - Ludwig van Beethoven. "Diabelli Variations" , 2016
172/173 - Beat Furrer , 2016
174 - Antonín Dvorák , 2016
175 - Enno Poppe , 2017
176/177 - Gérard Grisey , 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-562-2
178 - Charles-Valentin Alkan , 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-600-1 .
179 - Heiner Goebbels , 2018
180/181 - Alvin Lucier , 2018
182 - Rolf Riehm , 2018
183 - Klaus Ospald , 2019
184/185 - Jürg Baur , 2019

Special books

As a rule, one special issue appears each year.,

John Cage I , 1978; 2nd revised edition 1990, ISBN 3-88377-296-8 .
Franz Schubert , 1979, ISBN 3-88377-019-1 .
Arnold Schönberg , 1980
Robert Schumann I , 1981, ISBN 3-88377-070-1 .
Robert Schumann II , 1982, ISBN 3-88377-102-3 .
Anton Webern I , 1983, ISBN 3-88377-151-1 .
Anton Webern II , 1984, ISBN 3-88377-187-2 .
Alban Berg. Wozzeck , 1985, ISBN 3-88377-214-3 .
Gustav Mahler , 1989, ISBN 3-88377-241-0 .
Mozart. The Da Ponte operas , 1991, ISBN 3-88377-397-2 .
John Cage II , 1991; 2nd edition 2000, ISBN 3-88377-315-8 .
Darmstadt Documents I , 1999
History of Music as Present , 2000
Music of the other tradition. Microtonal Sound Worlds , 2003
Wolfgang Rihm , 2004, ISBN 3-88377-782-X .
Bernd Alois Zimmermann , 2005, ISBN 3-88377-808-7 .
The late Schumann , 2006, ISBN 3-88377-842-7 .
Music Philosophy , 2007
Sound art , 2008
Bohuslav Martinů , 2009
Philosophy of counterpoint , 2010
Isabel Mundry , 2011
Hanns Eisler. Applied Music , 2012
Hans Zender , 2013
Walter Braunfels , 2014
Manos Tsangaris , 2015
Music - an art of the imaginary , 2016
Telemann and the urban milieus of the Enlightenment , 2017
Ralph Vaughan Williams , 2018

Extra band

Karl Amadeus Hartmann cycle in North Rhine-Westphalia 1989/90 , 1989