Karlheinz Stockhausen : Zeitma? - Jerome Kohl

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Zeitma?

By: Jerome Kohl

Hardcover | 5 December 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Zeitmasse is one of a group of four acknowledged masterpieces composed between 1955 and 1957 that together established Karlheinz Stockhausen as the leading figure in the European avant-garde. Of the four works, it is the only one that has not been thoroughly analysed from the composer's sketches and, for this reason, remains the least-well understood. In this volume, Jerome Kohl provides a much-needed analysis of Zeitmasse, considering its standing in the group and in the wider context of Stockhausen's output. Using recently published correspondence and other documentation from the period, together with surviving sketch material, Kohl investigates the compositional procedures employed in Zeitmasse and their evolution. He discusses the wide range of influences discernible in the work, from that of both past generations of composers and contemporaries, to the impact of Stockhausen's studies in acoustics, phonetics and information theory on his music. The book closes with an examination of the reception of Zeitmasse and its associated concepts in the years following its composition, and shows how the key concepts utilized in the work are themselves a reflection of the properties seen in the very Zeitgeist that produced them.

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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

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