| Reflections of an American Composer |
| Contents |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
 | 1. TRENDS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN COMPOSITION |
| • | 1. Composers and Their Audience in the Thirties |
| • | 2. Nationalism |
| • | 3. Is Music in Decline? |
| • | 4. Rendezvous with Apollo |
| • | 5. Reinventing the Past |
| • | 6. Serialism |
| • | 7. Rapprochement or Friendly Takeover? |
| • | 8. Postmodern Music |
| 2. WRITING ABOUT MUSIC |
| • | 9. Virgil Thomson and the Press |
| • | 10. Music on My Beat |
| • | 11. PNM and the Ph. D. |
| • | 12. A Tale of Two Critics |
| 3. AESTHETICS AND MUSICAL ANALYSIS |
| • | 13. Do We Hear What We Say We Hear? |
| • | 14. New Linguistic Modes and the New Theory |
| • | 15. The Octatonic Scale |
| 4. RETROSPECTIVE |
| • | 16. Backstage at the Opera |
| • | 17. A Tale of Two Conductors |
 | 18. From My Diary |
| From My Scrapbook |
| Notes |
| Index |