Roger Sessions on Music

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Editor's Note, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
The Composer and His Message [1939], pg. 3
Music in Crisis [1933], pg. 27
The New Musical Horizon [1937], pg. 45
Song and Pattern in Music Today [1956], pg. 53
Problems and Issues Facing the Composer Today [1960], pg. 71
Style and "Styles" in Music [1961], pg. 88
Art, Freedom, and the Individual [957], pg. 105
Composer and Critic [1934], pg. 120
America Moves to the Avant-Scene [1937], pg. 123
To Revitalize Opera [1938], pg. 137
The Scope of Music Criticism [1947], pg. 146
Music in a Business Economy [1948], pg. 157
How a "Difficult" Composer Gets That Way [1950], pg. 169
Music and the Crisis of the Arts [1954], pg. 175
New Vistas in Musical Education [1934], pg. 187
The Composer in the University [1949], pg. 193
What Can Be Taught? [1967], pg. 204
Heinrich Schenker's Contribution [1935], pg. 231
Hindemith on Theory [1937], pg. 241
Exposition by Krenek [1938], pg. 249
Escape by Theory [1938], pg. 256
The Function of Theory [1938], pg. 263
Music and Nationalism [1933], pg. 271
Vienna-Vale, Ave [1938], pg. 282
On the American Future [1940], pg. 288
American Music and the Crisis [1940], pg. 295
No More Business-as-Usual [1942], pg. 304
Artists and This War [1942], pg. 313
Europe Comes to America [1945], pg. 319
Ernest Bloch [1927], pg. 329
On Oedipus Rex [1928], pg. 339
Hindemith's Mathis der Maler [1934], pg. 347
Schoenberg in the United States [1944, revised 1972], pg. 353
Some Notes on Schoenberg and the "Method of Composing with Twelve Tones" [1952], pg. 370
Thoughts on Stravinsky [1957], pg. 376
In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky [1971], pg. 386
In Memoriam Luigi Dallapiccola [1975], pg. 387