"Published in collaboration with the bludenzer tage zeitgemässer musik."
Includes bibliographical references.
A. Theory. The character of polyphony: Carter's Concerto for orchestra / Larson Powell ; Theory of polyphony ; Complex music: attempt at a definition ; Theses concerning harmony today / Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf ; Notes toward a performance practice for complex music / Frank Cox ; New complexity and after: a personal note / Richard Toop -- B. Composition. On polyphony (comments) / Mark André ; malang mujur: entangled in knotted lines / Bernd Asmus ; Interconnectivity and abstraction: Metallic Dust as a testing ground for monophonic and structural polyphonies / Aaron Cassidy ; "Virtual" polyphony: Clairvoyance, for solo violin / Compexity and polyphony / Chris Dench ; Aspects of the Fold / Gerald Eckert ; Texture as formal determinant: Three works / James Erber ; From basic material to dramaturgy: les géorgiques / Walter Feldmann ; Regarding the event / Mario Garuti ; Towards the semantification of instrumental technique / Wieland Hoban ; Expanding string technique / Klaus K. Hübler ; Medusa: concerning conception, poetics, and technique / The figure and its dramaturgy / Simeon Pironkoff ; Polyphony and shape: attempt at a concept of complex polyphony / Wolfram Schurig ; Vers une myopie musicale / Steven Kazuo Takasugi ; Hyper-polyphony: interactivity-open form / Ian Willcock ; In statu mutandi: a work-analysis / René Wohlhauser