Literature and research

Dissertations

• Stefan Heckel (2024): Instant Composing. Das Spätwerk des Jazzgitarristen und Komponisten Harry Pepl. dissertation (PhD), musicology (theory and history of popular music), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; supervisor Harald Huber, Vienna. Bibliothek (mdw), OBV AC17601666; 285 pages mit Illustrationen und Notenbeispielen; kein Volltext online gefunden Examines Pepl’s works of the Instant Composing phase from 1987/88 onwards, including Cracked Mirrors, Schönberg Improvations, the string quartets and the Lonely Single Swinger Band. Cite and export: Instant Composing. Das Spätwerk des Jazzgitarristen und …
• Thomas Albert Zlabinger (2013): Free from Jazz: The Jazz and Improvised Music Scene in Vienna after Ossiach (1971-2011). dissertation, City University of New York, New York. Online online, CUNY Academic Works Dissertation on the Viennese jazz and improvised music scene since 1971 (advisor Peter Manuel). Pepl appears in Table 1 of the most important musicians and bands (p. 87), in Table 2 among the musicians around the Vienna Art Orchestra (p. 91), in the index of musicians (“guitar, piano. Vienna Art Orchestra”, p. 166), in the bibliography (New York Times on the festival “Beyond the Sound of Music”, 18 May 1985, p. 212) and in the discography (pp. 253 to 270). Recordings by Clemens Salesny and Franz Hautzinger, who today play with Pepl’s original tracks, are discussed in detail (pp. 130 to 138). Cite and export: Free from Jazz: The Jazz and Improvised Music Scene in …
• Silvia Elisabetta Pagano (2009): Experimentieren – improvisieren – zuhören: Ursprung, Entwicklung und Theorien der heutigen experimentellen elektronischen Musik sowie Beweggründe und Gedanken in Wien tätiger Musikschaffender. dissertation, University of Vienna (supervisor Christoph Reuter), Vienna. Online online, Hochschulschriftenserver der Universität Wien Names Pepl as a member of the Ars Electronica Workshop Ensemble of 1982 with Adelhard Roidinger (p. 23). In an interview of 19 April 2004 the guitarist Martin Siewert says he studied jazz guitar with Harry Pepl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (p. 195). Cite and export: Experimentieren – improvisieren – zuhören: Ursprung …