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Book Synopsis"This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music--from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernac"
Table of ContentsEuropean Music Before 1945 * From Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music Ferruccio Busoni [18661924] * From Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater Claude Debussy [18621918] * Three Brief Epigrams Erik Satie [18661925] * From Notes Without Music Darius Milhaud [18921974] * Man and Music Ernest Bloch [18801959] * From Dialogues and a Diary Igor Stravinsky [18821971] * Why is Schoenbergs Music so Hard to Understand? Alban Berg [18851935] * The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music Bla Bartk [18811945] * From A Composers World Paul Hindemith [18951963] * From Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences Serge Prokofiev [18921953] * Music and the Times Dmitri Shostakovitch [19061975] * From The Making of Music Ralph Vaughan Williams [18721958] * On Winning the First Aspen Award Benjamin Britten [19131976] Experimental Music and American Developments * Preface to 114 Songs Charles Ives [18741954] * From New Musical Resources Henry Cowell [18971965] * The Creative Mind and the Interpretive Mind Aaron Copland [19001990) * FolksongAmerican Big Business Roy Harris [18981979] * On Waiting for a Libretto Samuel Barber [19101981] * From The State of Music Virgil Thomson [18961989] * The Musical Impulse Roger Sessions [18961985] * The Liberation of Sound Edgard Varse [18851964] * Experiments in Notation Harry Partch [19011974] * Space as an Essential Aspect of Musical Composition Harry Brant [1913 ] * Who Cares if You Listen? Milton Babbit [1916 ] * Some Random Remarks about Electronic Music Otto Luening [19001996] * Shop Talk by an American Composer Elliot Carter [1908 ] * Thinking Twice Stefan Wolpe [19021972] * Towards a Re-merger in Music Chou Wen-Chung [1923 ] * Grand and Not So Grand Jack Beeson [1921 ] * The Changing ComposerPerformer Relationship: A Monologue and a Dialogue Lukas Foss [1922 ] * John CageInterview with Roger Reynolds John Cage [19121992] * Composers, Performance and Publications; Music, Electronic and Performed Richard Maxfield [19241969] * Morton FeldmanAn Interview with Robert Ashley, August, 1964 Morton Feldman [19261987] * Charles WuorinenAn Interview with Barney Childs Charles Wuorinen [1938 ] Postmodernism and Recent Concerns * Five Revolutions Since 1950 Karlheinz Stockhausen [1928 ] * Dreaming of Things to Come... Michael Tippet [1905 ] * Gyrgy LigetiAn interview with Joseph Husler, 1968/69 Gyrgy Ligeti [1923 ] * On the Third String Quartet George Rochberg [1918 ] * Third Stream Third Stream Revisited Gunther Shuller [1925 ] * Some sound Observations Pauline Oliveros [1932 ] * Music as a Gradual Process Steve Reich [1936 ] * T. J. AndersonAn Interview with Elliot Schwartz T. J. Anderson [1928 ] * Maximum Clarity Ben Johnston [1926 ] * On Criticism Cornelius Cardew [19361981] * Sofia GubaidulinaAn Interview with Dorothea Redepenning, 1992 SOfia Gubaidulina [1931 ] * I am Sitting in a Room (1969) Alvin Lucier [1931 ] * Anthony BraxtonAn Interview with Graham Lock, 1988 Anthony Braxton [1945 ] * Composing a Viable (if transitory Self): Brian Ferneyhough in Conversation with James Boros Brian Fenneyhough [1943 ] * From Something About Music William Bolcom [1938 ]
