Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Recommended Reading: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Many people know that I am a big fan of Stockhausen for many reasons.  I've advocated some of his compositional ideas and have the opportunity to play some of his music.  Most of the reasons I enjoy Stockhausen came from this book:

Stockhausen on Music: Lectures and Interviews, by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Robin Maconie

This book is a series of transcribed lectures and interviews which I found to be an enlightenment concerning some of Stockhausen's ideas and where they come from.  I particularly recommend the section on "Intuitive Music."  Not only have I found this to be an adequate guide to Stockhausen's own works, but the concepts presented in the transcribed lectures are a worthy source of pondering for any musician.

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