Die Reihe

The music magazine, the series was a publication on the subject of serial music, which was published in the years 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 the twelve-tone music. She was a forum for the music-theoretical discourse for new music in the aftermath of the Second Viennese School, where renowned composers expressed themselves. (: Pennsylvania Bryn Mawr ) was transferred to an English edition of the German original titles a total of eight books, the 1958-1968 and the publisher Theodore Presser Company published. There was also a book series books of the series, which seems to be but did not get beyond an issue.

Issue 1: electronic music (1955 )

  • Greeting to Hanns Hartmann
  • Foreword
  • Herbert Eimert: The seven pieces
  • Karel Goeyvaerts: The electronic sound material
  • H. H. Stuckenschmidt: The third epoch
  • Gislher adhesive: First practical work
  • Werner Meyer- Eppler: Statistical and psychological sound problems
  • The younger looked over his shoulder: Ernst Krenek
  • Paul Gredinger: The Serial
  • Henri Pousseur: structures of new building material
  • Pierre Boulez: On the border of the country's fruit
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: News

Issue 2: Anton Webern (1955 )

Part 1: Documents - Confessions

  • Igor Stravinsky: Preface
  • Friedrich Wild Goose: Biographical Table
  • List of works
  • Hildegard Jone: A Cantata
  • The conductor Anton Webern
  • Ernst Krenek: The stone which the builders rejected, which has been the cornerstone
  • Ernst Krenek: from the correspondence
  • Anton Webern: Choralis Constantinus

Part 2: Findings - Analyses

  • Herbert Eimert: The necessary correction
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: On September 15, 1955
  • Pierre Boulez: For Anton Webern
  • Heinz- Klaus Metzger: Webern and Schoenberg
  • Leopold Spinner: An Analysis ( Concerto for 9 Instruments, 2nd Movement )
  • Henri Pousseur: Webern organic chromaticism ( 1 Bagatelle )
  • Christian Wolff: Controlled movement (Factory Selection)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: structure and experience time ( String Quartet, 2nd Movement )
  • Heinz- Klaus Metzger: Analysis of the clergy song, Op 15 No 4
  • Armin clip: Webern's Variations for Piano, 3rd movement
  • Herbert Eimert: interval proportions ( String Quartet, 1st movement )

Issue 3: musical Crafts ( 1957)

  • Herbert Eimert: From freedom of choice of composers
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: ... how time flies ...
  • John Cage: description of the methods in Music for Piano 21-52 method of composition
  • Henri Pousseur: Methodology

Issue 4: Young Composers (1958 )

  • Wolf -Eberhard von Lewinski: Young Composers
  • Udo Unger: Luigi Nono: Polifonica - Monodia - Ritmica: Il canto sospeso
  • Rudolf Stephan: Hans Werner Henze
  • György Ligeti: Pierre Boulez. Decision and automatic in Structure Ia
  • Heinz- Klaus Metzger: Intermezzo I: The aging of the Philosophy of New Music
  • Herbert Eimert: Intermezzo II
  • Wolf -Eberhard von Lewinski: Gislher adhesive
  • Piero Santi: Luciano Berio
  • Reinhold Schubert: Bernd Alois Zimmermann
  • Giacomo Manzoni: Bruno Maderna
  • Dieter Schnebel: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Issue 5: Reporting - Analysis ( 1959)

  • Herbert Eimert: Debussy's Jeux
  • Mauricio Kagel: tone clusters, stops, transitions
  • György Ligeti: To III. Piano sonata by Boulez
  • Heinz- Klaus Metzger Failed terms in Theory and Criticism of Music
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Electronic and Instrumental Music
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Music in the room
  • Hans G Helms: For John Cage's Lecture " indeterminacy "
  • John Cage: Indeterminacy [Translation and spatial arrangement: Hans G. Helms ]

Issue 6: Language and Music ( 1960)

  • Hans Rudolf Zeller: Mallarmé and the serial thinking
  • Dieter Schnebel: Brouillards. Trends in Debussy
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Music and Language
  • Nicolas Ruwet: from the contradictions of the serial language
  • Henri Pousseur: music, form and practice ( for the abrogation of some contradictions )

Issue 7: Form - Space (1960 )

  • György Ligeti: Transformations of the musical form
  • Ursula Burghardt - Kagel: The Space Theatre of Amancio Williams
  • 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 of Werner Meyer- Eppler
  • Werner Meyer- Eppler: Information-theoretic problems of musical communication
  • Helmut Kirchmeyergasse: From the historic nature of a rationalist Music
  • Walter Schulze- Andresen The three-dimensional notation
  • Walter O'Connell: The sound-space
  • Adriaan D. Fokker: What and Why?
  • Publications of the series

Books of the series

  • Herbert Eimert: Fundamentals of musical serialism, Vienna: Universal Edition 1964
  • Magazine ( New Music )
  • New Music
Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt Giselher Klebe Gottfried Michael Koenig Arnold Schoenberg Heinz-Klaus Metzger Christian Wolff (composer) Claude Debussy
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