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Composer from Brooklyn -- An autobiographical sketch (1929, 1968) -- Musical experience. How we listen (1939) -- Musical structure (1939) -- Tone color (1939) -- Music and the human spirit (1954) -- The life of music. The American composer gets a break (1935) -- Music between the wars (1918-1939) (1941, 1968) -- Musical imagination in the Americas (1952) -- Jazz structure and influence (1927) -- Workers sing! (1934) -- Letter on Varese and the league of composers (1972) -- Opera and music drama (1939) -- Tip to moviegoers: take off those ear-muffs (1949) -- Second thoughts on Hollywood (1940) -- Composer's report on music in South America (1947) -- Festival in Caracas (1954) -- The musician's life. A note on young composers (1935) -- Effect of the Cold War on the artist in the U.S. (1949) -- Introducing Shostakovitch at dinner (1949) -- When private and public worlds meet (1968) -- Is the university too much with us? (1970) -- Tanglewood's future (1952) -- From the '20s to the '40s and beyond (1945) -- Precursors. Defends the music of Mahler (1925) -- The Ives case (1933, 1941, 1967) -- Schoenberg's expressionism (1941, 1967) -- Stravinsky's dynamism (1941, 1967) -- Bela Bartok (1941, 1967) -- Contemporaries. The younger generation of American composers: 1926-59 (1960) -- America's young men of music (1960) -- George Antheil (1925) -- Darius Milhaud (1929) -- Virgil Thomson and Marc Blitzstein (1940, 1968) -- Carlos Chavez (1928, 1968) -- Stefan Wolpe (1948) -- Benjamin Britten (1963) -- Elliott Carter (1971) -- William Kapell (1954) -- Ralph Hawkes (1950) -- His own works. Symphony for organ and orchestra (1924) -- Music for the theatre I & II (1925) -- Dance symphony (1925) -- Concerto for piano and orchestra (1926) -- Two pieces for string orchestra (1928) -- Statements (1934) -- El Salon Mexico (1936) -- Sextet (1937) -- Billy the Kid (Notes on a Cowboy Ballet) (1938) -- An outdoor overture (1938) -- Lincoln portrait (1942) -- Music for movies (1942) -- Fanfare for the Common Man (1942) -- Danzon Cubano I & II (1957) -- Appalachian spring (letters regarding) (1944) -- Third symphony (1946) -- The red pony (1948) -- Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra with harp and piano (1948) -- 12 poems of Emily Dickinson (1950) -- Variations on a shaker melody (1956) -- Piano fantasy I & II (1957) -- Orchestral variations (1957) -- Dance panels (1959, rev. 1962) -- Something wild (1961) -- Connotations (1962) -- Emblems (1964) -- Music for a great city (1964) -- Inscape (1967) -- Three Latin American sketches (1959-1972) -- Midday thoughts (1944, finished 1982) -- Proclamation (1973-1982, arranged 1985) -- Personal. From a composer's notebook (1929) -- From a composer's journal (1960) -- The teacher and the pupil (1960) -- Journal from Venezuela visit (1954) -- Latin American tour journal (1963) -- Letters (1923-1944) -- Conversation with Edward T. Cone (1967). |
