Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995

Contents

• Part 1 Surveying the compositional scene: the composer's viewpoint (1946)
• a further step (1958)
• the challenge of the new (1960-62/94)
• fallacy of the mechanistic approach (1946)
• "la musique serielle aujourd'hui" (1964/94)
• ISCM Festival, Rome (1959)
• "Rasputin's End" and "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (1960)
• letter from Europe (1963)
• ISCM Festival, Amsterdam (1963/94). Part 2 American music: once again swing - also "American music (1939)
• American music in the New York scene (1940)
• the agony of modern music in America, 1955 (1955/94)
• the rhythmic basis of American music (1955)
• the European roots of American musical culture (1961/94)
• Expressionism and American music (1965/72)
• "the composer is a university commodity" (1970). Part 3 Charles Ives: the case of Mr Ives (1939)
• Ives today - his vision and challenge (1944)
• an American destiny (1946)
• Charles Ives remembered (1974)
• documents of a friendship with Ives (1975). Part 4 Some other composers: Gabriel Faure (1945)
• the three late sonatas of Debussy (1959/94)
• American figure, with landscape - Henry F. Gilbert (1943)
• Stravinsky in 1940
• Igor Stravinsky - two tributes (1971)
• on Edgard Varese (1975/79)
• Edward Steuermann (1966)
• Walter Piston (1946)
• Roger Sessions - violin concerto (1959)
• in memoriam - Roger Sessions, 1896-1985 (1985/95)
• in memoriam - Stefan Wolpe, 1902-1972 (1972)
• two essays on Goffredo Petrassi (1960, 1986)
• to think of Milton Babbitt (1976)
• for Pierre Boulez on his 60th (1985). Part 5 Life and work: to be a composer in America (1953/94)
• the composer's choices (circa 1960)
• shop talk by an American composer (1960)
• the time dimension in music (1965)
• two sonatas, 1948 and 1952 (1969)
• string quartets No 1, 1951, and No 2, 1959 (1970)
• the orchestral composer's point of view (1970)
• on Saint-John Perse and the concerto for orchestra (1974/94)
• brass quintet (1974)
• double concerto, 1961, and duo, 1974 (1975)
• music and the time screen (1976)
• "elle est la musique en personne" - a reminiscence of Nadia Boulanger (circa 1985/95)
• reminiscence of Italy (1988). Part 6 Philosophy, criticism and the other arts: more about Balanchine (1937)
• with the dancers (1938)
• remembering Balanchine (1991/95)
• theatre and films (1943)
• the genial sage - Paul Rosenfeld (1948)
• introduction to a poetry reading by W.H. Auden (1969)
• music as a liberal art (1944)
• time lecture (1965/94)
• the "Gesamtkunstwerk" (1966/94)
• Soviet music (1967/94)
• music criticism (1972). Appendices: notes on sources
• published writings by Carter not included in this collection.