Table of Contents

List of music examples

General Editor’s preface

Preface

1 ‘Ideas in the air’

2 Source

3 Prolegomena to analysis

4 The first version (1955)

5 The second version: ‘cadenzas’ (1956)

6 Performance –reception –influence

Bibliography

Discography

Index

About the Author

Jerome Kohl, PhD, is an American scholar, translator, writer and teacher who is a recognized authority on the music of Stockhausen. In addition to his many publications, he has frequently been invited to speak at academic conferences and to general audiences in Australia, Germany, the US and the UK.

Reviews

It is a strength of this book that the extremely careful understanding of the compositional ideas (not least down to Kohl’s comprehensive analysis of the sketches) is not lost in the search for and representation of the specific reasons for this or that compositional decision. [...] In conclusion, Kohl presents this exemplary discussion of Stockhausen’s compositional works, whose influence on later composers up to the present day shows how important such an investigation is to the understanding of composing in general and also to the works themselves.Markus Bandur, info-netz-musik