| Introduction: Essayist Despite Himself |
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vii | (6) |
| Acknowledgments |
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xiii | (4) |
| A Carter Chronology |
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I Surveying the Compositional Scene |
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3 | (42) |
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The Composer's Viewpoint (1946) |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (6) |
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The Challenge of the New (1960-62/94) |
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11 | (4) |
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Fallacy of the Mechanistic Approach (1946) |
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15 | (2) |
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"La Musique serielle aujourd'hui" (1965/94) |
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17 | (1) |
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ISCM Festival, Rome (1959) |
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18 | (10) |
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Rasputin's End and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1960) |
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28 | (3) |
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Letter from Europe (1963) |
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31 | (9) |
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ISCM Festival, Amsterdam (1963/94) |
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40 | (5) |
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45 | (42) |
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Once Again Swing; Also "American Music" (1939) |
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45 | (3) |
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American Music in the New York Scene (1940) |
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48 | (5) |
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The Agony of Modern Music in America, 1955 (1955/94) |
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53 | (4) |
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The Rhythmic Basis of American Music (1955) |
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57 | (5) |
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The European Roots of American Musical Culture (1961/94) |
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62 | (10) |
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Expressionism and American Music (1965/72) |
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72 | (11) |
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"The Composer Is a University Commodity" (1970) |
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83 | (4) |
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87 | (32) |
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The Case of Mr. Ives (1939) |
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87 | (3) |
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Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge (1944) |
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90 | (3) |
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An American Destiny (1946) |
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93 | (5) |
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Charles Ives Remembered (1974) |
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98 | (9) |
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Documents of a Friendship with Ives (1975) |
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107 | (12) |
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119 | (82) |
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119 | (3) |
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The Three Late Sonatas of Debussy (1959/94) |
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122 | (12) |
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American Figure, with Landscape [ Henry F. Gilbert] (1943) |
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134 | (4) |
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Stravinsky in 1940 (1940) |
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138 | (3) |
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Igor Stravinsky: Two Tributes (1971) |
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141 | (5) |
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On Edgard Varese (1975/79) |
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146 | (5) |
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151 | (7) |
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158 | (17) |
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Roger Sessions: Violin Concerto (1959) |
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175 | (5) |
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In Memoriam: Roger Sessions, 1896-1985 (1985/95) |
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180 | (5) |
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In Memoriam: Stefan Wolpe, 1902-1972 (1972) |
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185 | (2) |
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Two Essays on Goffredo Petrassi (1960, 1986) |
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187 | (10) |
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To Think of Milton Babbitt (1976) |
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197 | (2) |
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For Pierre Boulez on His Sixtieth (1985) |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (94) |
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To Be a Composer in America (1953/94) |
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201 | (9) |
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The Composer's Choices (c.1960) |
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210 | (4) |
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Shop Talk by an American Composer (1960) |
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214 | (10) |
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The Time Dimension in Music (1965) |
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224 | (4) |
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Two Sonatas, 1948 and 1952 (1969) |
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228 | (3) |
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String Quartets Nos. 1, 1951, and 2, 1959 (1970) |
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231 | (4) |
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The Orchestral Composer's Point of View (1970) |
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235 | (15) |
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On Saint-John Perse and the Concerto for Orchestra (1974/94) |
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250 | (6) |
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256 | (2) |
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Double Concerto, 1961, and Duo, 1974 (1975) |
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258 | (4) |
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Music and the Time Screen (1976) |
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262 | (19) |
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"Elle est la musique en personne": A Reminiscence of Nadia Boulanger (c.1985/95) |
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281 | (11) |
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Reminiscence of Italy (1988) |
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291 | (3) |
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VI Philosophy, Criticism, and the Other Arts |
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295 | (48) |
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More about Balanchine (1937) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (3) |
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Remembering Balanchine (1991/95) |
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299 | (5) |
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304 | (2) |
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The Genial Sage [ Paul Rosenfeld] (1948) |
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306 | (1) |
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Introduction to a Poetry Reading by W. H. Auden (1969) |
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307 | (2) |
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Music as a Liberal Art (1944) |
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309 | (4) |
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313 | (6) |
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The Gesamtkunstwerk (1966/94) |
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319 | (12) |
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331 | (4) |
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335 | (8) |
| Appendix 1: Notes on Sources |
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343 | (8) |
| Appendix 2: Published Writings by Carter Not Included in This Collection |
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351 | (4) |
| Index |
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