Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Overture: Some Issues Facing the Contemporary American Composer

pp xv-xxvi

Part One - Essays on Composers

pp 1-2

Chapter 1 - Cage Contemplating/Contemplating Cage

pp 3-26

Chapter 2 - Some Things I Learned (Didn’t Learn) from Milton Babbitt, or Why I Am (Am Not) a Serial Composer

pp 27-84

Chapter 3 - Not Only Rows in Richard Swift’s Roses Only

pp 85-111

Chapter 4 - A Footnote to Hasty, Whitehead, and Plato: More Thoughts on Stefan Wolpe’s Music

pp 112-116

Part Two - Talks on My Music

pp 117-118

Chapter 5 - Composing Each Time

pp 119-183

Chapter 6 - Why Not Lilacs

pp 184-212

Chapter 7 - Cold Mountain Songs

pp 213-233

Chapter 8 - Music as Poetry: A Talk on My Fourteen Little Piano Pieces

pp 234-258

Chapter 9 - Nature, Music and Nature, My Music Outdoors

pp 259-300

Part Three - Essays on Criticism and Aesthetics

pp 301-302

Chapter 10 - Aspects of Confluence between Western Art Music and Ethnomusicology

pp 303-312

Chapter 11 - Musical Form, Expectation, Attention, and Quality

pp 313-326

Chapter 12 - Autocommentary: Thoughts on Music Theory at the Millennium

pp 327-335

Chapter 13 - Thinking about Musical Time

pp 336-356

A - Some Serial Music Terms

pp 357-358

B - Set-Class Table

pp 359-366

C - Hexachordal Combinatoriality

pp 367-367

D - Two-Row Combinatoriality

pp 368-368

Notes

pp 369-394

Bibliography

pp 395-402

Index

pp 403-417