Herbert Eimert and the Darmstadt School

After 1951, the discourse surrounding both the Darmstadt courses in particular and European New Music more broadly shifted away from a dodecaphonic vocabulary in favour of concepts such as ''punctual music'', ''post-Webern music'', and ''static music'', all collected under the newly-christened unity of the Darmstadt School. This study proposes a genealogy of the Darmstadt School through the instit...