The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music

Amy Bauer is Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She has published articles and book chapters on the music of Thomas Adès, Carlos Chávez, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Georg Friedrich Haas, Helmut Lachenmann, Mauro Lanza, David Lang, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Gabriela Ortiz, Salvatore Sciarrino, Helena Tulve, and Claude Vivier, as well as on television music, opera, spectral music, and the philosophy and reception of modernist music and music theory. Her monographs include Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism and the Absolute (2011), and the collection György Ligeti's Cultural Identities (2017), co-edited with Márton Kerékfy. Liam Cagney is Lecturer in Music at BIMM University. His musical criticism regularly appears in publications like the Irish Times, Gramophone, the Guardian, the TLS, the Spectator, the Telegraph, VAN, and Frieze and his podcast with Stephen Graham, Talking Musicology, was nominated for a Classical: NEXT Innovation Award. Liam's first monograph Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music Composition in the Information Age was published in 2024.

Will Mason is Associate Professor of Music at Wheaton College (MA). His work as a composer and performer has appeared on New Amsterdam Recordings and Exit Stencil Records. His scholarship covers topics ranging from microtonality to electroacoustic music, particularly concerning philosophies of embodiment.