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Book SynopsisOver the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the basis of the present collection of essays. Many of the essays deal with specific problems that musicians, especially composers, have faced during the p
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Editor's Note, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*The Composer and His Message [1939], pg. 3*Music in Crisis [1933], pg. 27*The New Musical Horizon [1937], pg. 45*Song and Pattern in Music Today [1956], pg. 53*Problems and Issues Facing the Composer Today [1960], pg. 71*Style and "Styles" in Music [1961], pg. 88*Art, Freedom, and the Individual [957], pg. 105*Composer and Critic [1934], pg. 120*America Moves to the Avant-Scene [1937], pg. 123*To Revitalize Opera [1938], pg. 137*The Scope of Music Criticism [1947], pg. 146*Music in a Business Economy [1948], pg. 157*How a "Difficult" Composer Gets That Way [1950], pg. 169*Music and the Crisis of the Arts [1954], pg. 175*New Vistas in Musical Education [1934], pg. 187*The Composer in the University [1949], pg. 193*What Can Be Taught? [1967], pg. 204*Heinrich Schenker's Contribution [1935], pg. 231*Hindemith on Theory [1937], pg. 241*Exposition by Krenek [1938], pg. 249*Escape by Theory [1938], pg. 256*The Function of Theory [1938], pg. 263*Music and Nationalism [1933], pg. 271*Vienna-Vale, Ave [1938], pg. 282*On the American Future [1940], pg. 288*American Music and the Crisis [1940], pg. 295*No More Business-as-Usual [1942], pg. 304*Artists and This War [1942], pg. 313*Europe Comes to America [1945], pg. 319*Ernest Bloch [1927], pg. 329*On Oedipus Rex [1928], pg. 339*Hindemith's Mathis der Maler [1934], pg. 347*Schoenberg in the United States [1944, revised 1972], pg. 353*Some Notes on Schoenberg and the "Method of Composing with Twelve Tones" [1952], pg. 370*Thoughts on Stravinsky [1957], pg. 376*In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky [1971], pg. 386*In Memoriam Luigi Dallapiccola [1975], pg. 387
