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Volume 53

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The PNM/OS CD Series

To be a forum for valuable musical thinking that might otherwise remain unavailable describes the ethos of Perspectives over its history. To this end, we are producing a series of CDs for our subscribers and other interested music-lovers, in a collaboration between Perspectives of New Music and Open Space. These CDs will go to PNM subscribers occasionially as part of their subscription.

ERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC is directed to a readership consisting of composers, performers, scholars, and all others interested in any kind of contemporary music. Published material includes theoretical research, analyses, technical reports, position papers by composers, sociological and philosophical articles, interviews, reviews, and, for special purposes, short musical scores or other creative productions.

1962–2012

50 Years of Innovation

Volume 50 (2012) was mailed to subscribers in January 2013. This special Golden Anniversary Double Issue, vol. 50 nos. 1&2, features:

A History of Perspectives, as told in many interviews and essays by people who have been involved at some time during the past 50 years;
A special feature on Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Volume 49, including:

Special issue on Musical Tiling
Milton Babbitt: A Composers' Memorial

It is not too late to subscribe for the historic Volume 49, which includes at no extra cost a very special Supplement dedicated to the memory of Milton Babbitt. 24 Compositions by living composers were commissioned by Perspectives of New Music and are compiled here in a 4-CD boxed set and a 428-page book of scores, notes, and essays. This Supplement was produced as a joint project of Perspectives of New Music and Open Space.

For Volume 49, Number 2, John Rahn and Emmanuel Amiot have co-edited a special package on the theory and practice of tilings in music.

Read A Brief Guide to the Tiling Articles.

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