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Contents
- Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Contractions Introduction
- 1. Composers and their Audience in the Thirties
- 2. Nationalism
- 3. Is Music in Decline?
- 4. Rendezvous with Apollo: Form Is Feeling
- 5. Reinventing the Past: Pastiche, "Criticism," or Collage?
- 6. Serialism: Composer as Theorist
- 7. Rapprochement or Friendly Takeover?
- 8. Postmodern Music
- 9. Virgil Thomson and the Press
- 10. Music on My Beat
- 11. PNM and the Ph. D.
- 12. Do We Hear What We Say We Hear?
- 13. New Linguistic Modes and the New Theory
- 14. Backstage at the Opera
- 15. A Tale of Two Critics: Rosenfeld and Haggin
- 16. A Tale of Two Conductors: Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos
- 17. Octatonic Scale
- 18. Brief Encounters: From My Diary NOTES