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In search of the avant-garde -- History and theory. Musical cosmology / Benjamin Boretz -- Fluxus music / Peter Frank -- Boredom and danger / Dick Higgins -- Notes on new music / Tom Johnson -- Definitions of popular music: recycled / Gaynor G. Jones and Jay Rahn -- Moment form in twentieth-century music / Jonathan D. Kramer -- Music of Futurism: concerts and polemics / Rodney J. Payton -- Operational music / William Wilson -- Composers on music. Serial music today / Earle Brown -- Time and music: a composer's view / Barney Childs -- Generating and organizing variety in the arts / Brian Eno -- Paik and Moorman perform Cage -- Writings about music / Steve Reich -- New technologies. Synthesizers and the evolution of electronic music / Jeffy Davidson -- Microcomputers and electronic music / Hubert S. Howe -- Notations / Allison Knowles -- Music since Hiroshima: the electronic age begins / Herbert Russcol -- Electronic synthesizers: a survey / Stephen Syverud -- Critique. Arthur Berger's trio for violin, guitar, and piano (1972) / Elaine Barkin -- The music of Elliot Carter / William Brandt -- Wiggly lines and wobbly music / Cornelius Cardew -- Avant-garde issues in seventies music / Thomas DeLio -- Edgard Varese: an oral history project / Ruth Julius -- Two tonal composers / Richard Kostelanetz -- Ear, heart, and brain / Michel P. Philippot -- Schonberg - yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Josef Rufer -- Electronic music and live performance / Elliot Schwartz. |
