292 pages, 244 x 170mm, with figures and music examples. Published by Cambridge University Press in the Music since 1900 series, paperback. Zagreb, June 1961. On the programme: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Mauricio Kagel, Witold Lutosławs…
Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that developed alongside, and partly in opposition to,…