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Acknowledgments vii Preface ix The String Quartets of Bartok (1949) 1Review of Leibowitz, Schoenberg et son ecole (1950) 10 Review of Le SystemeDodecaphonique (1950) 16 Review of Salzer, Structural Hearing (1952) 22Tintinnabulation of the Crochets (Review of Halsey Stevens, The Life andMusic of Bartok) (1953) 31 Musical America's Several Generations (1954) 34Some Aspects of Twelve-Tone Composition (1955) 38 The Composer as Specialist(1958) 48 Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants (1960) 55The Revolution in Sound: Electronic Music (1960) 70 Past and PresentConcepts of the Nature and Limits of Music (1961) 78 Set Structure as aCompositional Determinant (1961) 86 Twelve-Tone Rhythmic Structure and theElectronic Medium (1962) 109 Reply to George Perle's "Babbitt, Lewin, andSchoenberg: A Critique" (1963) 141 Remarks on the Recent Stravinsky (1964)147 The Synthesis, Perception, and Specification of Musical Time (1964) 172An Introduction to the R.C.A. Synthesizer (1964) 178 The Structure andFunction of Musical Theory (1965) 191 The Uses of Computers in MusicologicalResearch (1965) 202 Edgard Varese: A Few Observations of His Music (1966)213 Three Essays on Schoenberg (1968) 222 On Relata I (1970) 237Contribution to "The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme ofStravinsky" (1970) 259 Memorial for Matyas Seiber (1970) 263 StravinskyMemorial (1971) 264 Contemporary Musical Composition and Musical Theory asContemporary Intellectual History (1972) 270 Memorial for Stefan Wolpe(1972) 308 Since Schoenberg (1974) 310 Celebrative Speech for theSchoenberg Centennial (1976) 335 Responses: A First Approximation (1976) 341Introduction to Marion Bauer, Twentieth Century Music (1978) 367 Forewordto David Epstein, Beyond Orpheus (1979) 371 Memorial for Ben Weber (1979)377 Memorial for Robert Miller (1981) 380 The More than the Sounds of Music(1984) 383 I Remember Roger (1985) 388 "All the Things They Are": Commentson Kern (1985) 395 Memorial for Hans Keller (1986) 399 Stravinsky'sVerticals and Schoenberg's Diagonal: A Twist of Fate (1987) 404 On HavingBeen and Still Being an American Composer (1989) 428 A Life of Learning(1991) 437 Brave New Worlds (1994) 459 My Vienna Triangle (1999) 466 Index489