NEW MUSIC AT DARMSTADT

New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analy tical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subseque nt collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eime rt and a range of journalistic commentators, created an image of a coherent entity, despite the very diverse range of compositional practices...[Read more]