This new series of Norton books, devoted to informed discussion of contemporary music, draws principally upon articles first published in Perspectives of New Music, which Richard Kostelanetz has described as “among the most consistently interesting magazines in America.” The Perspectives books will comprise a repository of the clearest thinking and most serious writing about twentieth-century music, forming an essential addition to the libraries of both professionals and amateurs concerned with understanding recent developments.
Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory includes contributions to metatheory and methodology by Milton Babbitt, Arthur Berger, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Boretz, Edward T. Cone, Henri Pousseur, and others; essays on compositional theory by composers such as Babbitt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, J. K. Randall, and Peter Westergaard.
