From the Book - First edition.
Sketch of a new esthetic of music / Ferruccio Busoni --
From "Monsieur Croche the dilettante hater" / Claude Debussy --
Three brief epigrams / Erik Satie --
From "Notes without music" / Darius Milhaud --
Man and music / Ernest Bloch --
From "Dialogues and a diary" / Igor Stravinsky --
Why is Schoenberg's music so hard to understand? / Alban Berg --
The influence of peasant music on modern music / Bela Bartok --
From "A composer's world" / Paul Hindemith --
From "Autobiography, articles, reminiscences" / Serge Prokofiev --
Music and the times / Dmitri Shostakovitch --
From "The making of music" / Ralph Vaughan Williams --
On winning the first Aspen award / Benjamin Britten --
Postface to 114 songs / Charles Ives --
From "New musical resources" / Henry Cowell --
The creative mind and the interpretive mind / Aaron Copland --
Folksong-American big business / Roy Harris --
On waiting for a libretto / Samuel Barber --
From "The state of music" / Virgil Thomson --
The musical impulse / Roger Sessions --
The liberation of sound / Edgard Varese --
Experiments in notation / Harry Partch --
Space as an essential aspect of musical composition / Henry Brant --
Who cares if you listen? / Milton Babbitt --
Some random remarks about electronic music / Otto Luening --
Shop talk by an American composer / Elliott Carter --
Thinking twice / Stefan Wolpe --
Towards a re-merger in music / Chou Wen-Chung --
Grand and not so grand / Jack Beeson --
The changing composer- performer relationship : a monologue and a dialogue / Lukas Foss --
Interview with Roger Reynolds / John Cage --
Composers, performance and publications music, electronic and performed / Richard Maxfield --
An interview with Robert Ashley, August 1964 / Morton Feldman --
An interview with Barney Childs, 1962 / Charles Wuorinen.
