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1962-2012. 50 years of innovation.

Golden Anniversary Issue

Volume 50 (2012) was mailed to subscribers in January, 2013. It is a special Golden Anniversary Double Issue, vol 50 nos 1&2, and features two sections: 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;
and a special feature on Karlheinz Stockhausen.

ANNOUNCING DIGITAL PUBLICATION IN 2013

Starting in January 2013, we will offer institutions and individuals three options for subscriptions: print only (as is); digital only; and print plus digital. The digital subscriptions will be delivered by JSTOR under their Current Scholarship Program. Our most recent issue at this date is Volume 50, and subscriptions in all three options are available via the "SUBSCRIBE ONLINE" links below.

Print subscribers will continue to receive any CDs; the audio will be available online for digital subscribers. Subscribers will have full access not only to the current issues, but also to our entire print run from 1962 to the present.

INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES IN PDF

Volumes more than seven years old remain available in the JSTOR archives. Single articles in the archives can be purchased individually through JSTOR's Publisher Sales Service.: Go to the JSTOR link for PNM here, click to open the article you want, and click the Download button.

CONTENTS: 44/2, 45/1, 45/2, 46/1, 46/2, 47/1, 47/2, 48/1, 48/2, 49/1, 49/2, 50/1&2.

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Perspectives of
New Music
Perspectives 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.

PNM 49/2 and Babbitt Memorial CDs

PNM 49/2 Supplement:
Milton Babbitt: A composers' memorial

It is not too late to subscribe for the historic Volume 49, with Supplement. The Supplement is included in the subscription to Volume 49 at no extra cost. The Supplement includes a boxed set of 4 CDs and and book of 428 pages of scores, notes, and essays as a special Supplement to Perspectives of New Music Volume 49, number 2. These 24 compositions by living composers were commissioned by Perspectives of New Music for this project to commemorate the passing of Milton Babbitt. The Supplement was produced as a joint project of Perspectives of New Music and Open Space.

PNM 49/2 Special Issue on Musical Tiling

John Rahn and Emmanuel Amiot have co-edited a special package for PNM volume 49, number 2 on the theory and practice of tilings in music. Read A Brief Guide to the Tiling Articles.

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 of Perspectives of New Music and Open Space. These CDs will go to PNM subscribers occasionially as part of their subscription.