The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the 'Darmstadt School'.
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Introduction: music after catastrophe; Part I. The Accidental Serialists: 1. Arrivals; 2. Schools, excursus: October 1954, Donaueschingen and Cologne; Part II. A Stranger in Paradise?: 3. Pre-cursors; 4. The Cage shock; 5. In Cage's wake; Conclusion: a stranger in paradise?; Chronology of major events at Darmstadt, 1946-61.