Essays, principally by composers, reprinted from various periodicals.
Contents:
Composition with arrays / Godfrey Winham. New linguistic modes and the new theory / Arthur Berger -- Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art from a musical point of view / Benjamin Boretz -- Alea / Pierre Boulez -- Music : a view from Delft Beyond analysis / Edward T. Cone -- On the proto-theory of musical structure / Richard M. Martin -- The question of order in new music / Henri Pousseur -- Two lectures to scientists / J.K. Randall -- Set structure as a compositional determinant Twelve-tone rhythmic structure and the electronic medium / Milton Babbitt -- A theory of segmental association in twelve-tone music / David Lewin -- Operations on waveforms / J.K. Randall -- The concept of unity in electronic music / Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Some problems in rhythmic theory and analysis Toward a twelve-tone polyphony / Peter Westergaard -- Composition with arrays / Godfrey Winham.
Series:
The Perspectives of new music series The Norton library, N548
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