Introduction to Marion Bauer’s Twentieth Century Music 1978

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. The String Quartets of Bartók 1949 1
6. Review of Schoenberg et son école and Qu’est ce que la musique de douze sons? by René Leibowitz. 1950 10
7. Review of Polyphonie—Revue musicale trimestrielle; Quatrième cahier: Le Système dodécaphonique 1950 16
8. Review of Felix Salzer, Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music 1952 22
9. Tintinnabulation of the Crochets 1953 31
10. Musical America’s Several Generations 1954 34
11. Some Aspects of Twelve-Tone Composition 1955 38
12. The Composer as Specialist 1958 48
13. Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants 1960 55
14. The Revolution in Sound: Electronic Music 1960 70
15. Past and Present Concepts of the Nature and Limits of Music 1961 78
16. Set Structure as a Compositional Determinant 1961 86
17. Twelve-Tone Rhythmic Structure and the Electronic Medium 1962 109
18. Reply to George Perle 1963 141
19. Remarks on the Recent Stravinsky 1964 147
20. The Synthesis, Perception, and Specification of Musical Time 1964 172
21. An Introduction to the R.C.A. Synthesizer 1964 178
22. The Structure and Function of Musical Theory 1965 191
23. The Use of Computers in Musicological Research 1965 202
24. Edgard Varèse: A Few Observations of His Music 1966 213
25. Three Essays on Schoenberg 1968 222
26. On Relata I 1970 237
27. Contribution to “The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky” 1970 259
28. In Memoriam: Mátyás Seiber 1970 263
29. Contribution to “Stravinsky (1882–1971): A Composer’s Memorial” 1971 264
30. Contemporary Music Composition and Music Theory as Contemporary Intellectual History [1972] 270
31. In Memoriam: Stefan Wolpe 1972 308
32. Since Schoenberg 1974 310
33. Celebrative Speech 1976 335
34. Responses: A First Approximation 1976 341
35. Introduction to Marion Bauer’s Twentieth Century Music 1978 367
36. Foreword to Beyond Orpheus 1979 371
37. Ben Weber (1916–1979) 1979 377
38. Robert Miller (1930–1981) 1981 380
39. The More than the Sounds of Music 1984 383
40. I Remember Roger (Contribution to “In Memoriam: Roger Sessions”) 1985 388
41. “All the Things They Are”: Comments on Kern 1985 395
42. Hans Keller: A Memoir 1986 399
43. Stravinsky’s Verticals and Schoenberg’s Diagonals: A Twist of Fate 1987 404
44. On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer 1989 428
45. A Life of Learning 1991 437
46. Brave New Worlds 1994 459
47. “My Vienna Triangle at Washington Square,” Revisited and Dilated 1999 466
48. INDEX 489