Unerhörte Klänge

The book attempts to make an understanding of "music as an art of perception" (Helmut Lachenmann), which is significant in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, fruitful for musicology. The central position of sound, time and space in new music since 1900 is embedded in music-historical and -aesthetic discourses and the sonic materiality is understood as the starting point of listening-analytical activity. The analyses cast new perspectives on post-tonal instrumental music by Schönberg, Varèse, Scelsi, B. A. Zimmermann, Ligeti, Boulez, M. Feldman, Kurtág, Lachenmann, Ferneyhough, Grisey, Sciarrino and Mundry.