Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music Book

I	European Music Before 1945
	From "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music"	3
	From "Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater"	17
	Three Brief Epigrams	30
	From "Notes Without Music"	33
	Man and Music	40
	From "Dialogues and A Dairy"	48
	Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?	59
	The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music	72
	From "A Composer's World"	80
	From "Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences"	99
	Music and the Times	106
	From "The Making of Music"	111
	On Winning the First Aspen Award	115
II	Experimental Music and American Developments
	Postface to 114 Songs	127
	From "New Musical Resources"	134
	The Creative Mind and the Interpretive Mind	146
	Folksong - American Big Business	160
	On Waiting for a Libretto	165
	From "The State of Music"	170
	The Musical Impulse	182
	The Liberation of Sound	195
	Experiments in Notation	209
	Space as an Essential Aspect of Musical Composition	222
	Who Cares If You Listen?	243
	Some Random Remarks about Electronic Music	251
	Shop Talk by an American Composer	261
	Thinking Twice	274
	Towards a Re-merger in Music	308
	Grand and Not So Grand	316
	The Changing Composer - Performer Relationship: A Monologue and a Dialogue	325
	Interview with Roger Reynolds	335
	Composers, Performance and Publications Music, Electronic and Performed	349
	An Interview with Robert Ashley, August 1964	362
	An Interview with Barney Childs, 1962	367
III	Postmodernism and Recent Concerns
	Five Revolutions Since 1950	379
	"Dreaming on Things to Come ..."	384
	An Interview with Joseph Hausler, 1968/69	388
	On the Third String Quartet	403
	Third Stream	408
	Third Stream Revisited	408
	Some Sound Observations	415
	Music as a Gradual Process	421
	An Interview with Elliott Schwartz, 1996	425
	Maximum Clarity	430
	On Criticism	440
	An Interview with Dorothea Redepenning, 1992	448
	"I Am Sitting in a Room" (1969)	455
	An Interview with Graham Lock, 1988	462
	Composing a Viable (if Transitory) Self: Brian Ferneyhough in Conversation with James Boros	469
	from "Something About the Music"	481