Table of Contents

Part I: Composer and Public. 1. Listening to Music (1930). 2. The Composer and his audience (1960). 3. Second and Symbol (1957). 4. The Contemporary Musical Situation (1956). Part II: Tradition and Innovation. Music at the court of Alfonso V the Magnanimous (1936). 6. A Note on Felipe Pedrell (c. 1940). 7. New Musical Methods (1930). 8. Music and Poetry (1935). Part III: Contemporary Composers (1929-1939). 9. Hanns Eisler (1898-1982). 10. Bartok. 11. Ildebrando Pizzetti. 12. Baltasa Samper. 13. Some Composers from Madrid. Part IV: Music and Drama. 14. Opera (1930). 15. Music and Film (1930). 16. The Duenna (1949). 17. Music and Ballet. Part V: New Horizons. 18. Schoenberg, Twelve-note Music and Serialism. 19. On Composition with Twelve Notes (1954). 20. Tonality in Twelve-tone Music (1952). 21. Developments in Twelve-tone Technique (1956). 22. Alban Ber: Obituary (1936). 23. Webern. 24. Twelve-note Technique in Stravinsky (1957). 25. Functions of the Series in Twelve-note Composition (1960). Part VI: Music in a Post-War Context. 26. England, Spring 1945. 27. Concrete Music and Electronic Sound Composition (1959). 28. Sound Observed (1965). 29. The Plague (1964). 30. Introduction to Symphony No. 2 (1959). 31. "Is Modern Music Growing Old?" (1960). 32. Art and Anarchy (1961). 33. The Muse and Music Today (1962). 34. An Inaugrual Lecture (1961).