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TEMPO: The Quarterly Review of New Music

TEMPO: The Quarterly Review of New Music provides unparalleled coverage of global contemporary music, featuring peer-reviewed articles, composer portraits, and reviews of premieres, recordings, and books. The journal’s online archive through Exact Editions offers seamless access to over eight decades of research and critical commentary — an essential resource for teaching, study, and performance. Enjoy the open access content available from the magazines archive.

A Field Guide To Sonic Botany: Thoughts About Eco-Composition - Maayan Tsadka

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 295 - January 2021
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2020 - Neil Thomas Smith

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 296 - April 2021
The Strong Silent Type: Masculinity And Wandelweiser Music - Ed Cooper

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 296 - April 2021
Adès And Sonata Forms - Edward Venn

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 298 - October 2021
Thomas Adès At Fifty: Representations On The Stage And On The Page - Edward Venn

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 298 - October 2021
Joan La Barbara In West Berlin, 1979 - Joy Calico

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 301 - July 2022
Teaching Composition In A Flipped Classroom - Martin Iddon

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 302 - October 2022
Where Are We Going? And What Have We Done? - Aaron Moorehouse

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 305 - July 2023
Identity Through Difference In Beat Furrer’s Lotófagos - Ed Cooper

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 307 - January 2024
New Liminalities: Beat Furrer At 70 - Ed Cooper

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 307 - January 2024
It's Not About You: Do We Still Need An 'Artistic Voice'? - Matthew Shlomowitz

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 308 - April 2024
Rehearsing Time - Lea Sikau

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 308 - April 2024
Habitus, Resistance And The Production Of Musical Meaning - Niamh Dell

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 309 - July 2024
I Am A Textural Composer - Jane Stanley

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 309 - July 2024
Thinking Aloud: The Soliloquy Cycle - Thomas Simaku

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 309 - July 2024
‘Are You Still There?’ Experiencing Sonic Bothy’s Verbaaaaatim - Claire Docherty

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 310 - October 2024
Introduction: Theory And Practice Of Somatic Music - Björn Heile

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 310 - October 2024
Of Embodied Musical Spaces And Their Creative Ambiguity - Martin Iddon

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 310 - October 2024
‘Speaker For The Dead’: Composition As Speculative Archaeoacoustics - Alastair White

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 310 - October 2024
The Music Of Proxima Centauri B: Three Singers On Planet M By Oli Jan - Björn Heile

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 310 - October 2024
The Melancholia Of Radiguean Aesthetics - Michelle Mackenzie

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 311 - January 2025
Now Is Not The Time For Neo-Classicism: The Case For Neo-Classicism - Matthew Shlomowitz

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 313 - July 2025
What Can Reading Do? On Postcritique And ‘The New Discipline - Ed Cooper

Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music, No. 313 - July 2025