Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction, by William Bolcom
On the New Image of Music
Indeterminacy in the New Music (1959)
The New Image of Music (1963)
On Schoenberg and Serialism
My Dear Igor (An Imaginary Dialogue) (1957)
Reflections on Schoenberg (1972)
On Musical Time and Space
Duration in Music (1960)
The Concepts of Musical Time and Space (1963)
On Music, Humanism, and Culture
No Center (1969)
Humanism versus Science (1970)
Fiddlers and Fribbles or Is Art a Separate Reality? (1986)
News of the Culture or News of the Universe? (1988)
Talking to Luigi Russolo Eighty-Five Years Later (1998)
On the Fantastic and the Logical
Aural Fact or Fiction: Or, Composing at the Seashore (1965)
The Fantastic and the Logical: Reflections on Science, Politics, and Art (1973)
The Marvelous in Art (1982)
On the Renewal of Music
The Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Survival (1969)
Guston and Me: Digression and Return (1992)
Polarity in Music: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Their Consequences (1995)
L'Envoi (1998)
Selected Bibliography
Index