Through the Sensory Looking-Glass: The Aesthetic and Serial Foundations of Gesang der Jünglinge

Ungeheuer, Elena, Decroupet, Pascal

2002

Electroacoustic Music: Analytical Perspectives. Westport: Greenwood, 1-39.

Language: English

In this chapter, the authors present a detailed structural, poietic (production-based) analysis of Karlheinz Stockhausen's work, Gesang der Jünglinge (1955/56), a work that represented a turning point in musical thought of that time, precipitating a reassessment of serial thought as it had been formulated in the first half of the decade.