Stockhausen on Music. Lectures & Interviews. Compiled by Robin Maconie

"If a genius is someone whose ideas survive all attempts at explanation", writes the well-known contemporary musicologist Robin Maconie, "then by that definition Stockhausen is the nearest thing to Beethoven this century has produced. Reason? His music lasts."

With penetrating philosophical and spiritual insights Stockhausen describes, in this collection of lectures and interviews conducted in English, a whole new universe of sounds and events.

CONTENIDO:

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1
-About my childhood
-On the musical gift
-Points and Groups
-Composing statistically
-Lyric and dramatic form
-Moment-forment and MOMENTE
-Microphony
-Four criteria of electronic music
-Intuitive music

Part 2
-Some questions and answers
-Afterward: Beauty and necessity