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Virgil Thomson, a Franco-Missourian American / John Rockwell -- Missouri landscape with figures. -- Early articles. -- Jazz -- Aaron Copland -- George Gershwin -- Swing music -- Swing again -- Paris. ?-- Antheil, Joyce, and Pound -- Langlois, Butts, and Stein -- Paris, April 1940 -- A portrait of Gertrude Stein -- From "The state of music." -- A 1961 preface -- Our island home, or What it feels like to be a musician -- The neighbors, or Chiefly about painters and painting -- Survivals of an earlier civilization, or Shades of poets dead and gone -- Life among the natives, or Musical habits and customs -- How composers eat, or Who does what to whom and who gets paid -- Why composers write how, or The economic determinism of musical style -- How to write a piece, or Functional design in music -- A 1961 postlude. -- On the "New York Herald Tribune." -- The paper -- Articles and reviews, 1940-1945 -- Articles and reviews, 1946-1954. -- Later articles. -- Music for "Much ado" -- Nadia Boulanger at 75 -- Wanda Landowska -- How dead is Arnold Schönberg? -- On being discovered -- The tradition of sensibility -- "Craft-Igor" and the whole Stravinsky -- The genius type -- Berlioz, Boulez, and Piaf -- William Flanagan -- Opera librettos -- Aaron Copland -- The Ives case -- Ruggles -- Cage and the collage of noises -- Varèse, Xenakis, Carter -- Making black music -- Stravinsky's operas -- The state of music criticism. -- Two conversations. -- John Rockwell : a conversation with Virgil Thomson -- Diana Trilling : an interview with Virgil Thomson. |
