Table of Contents
Contents: Foreword, Michael Nyman; Preface; Introduction; Part I Reviews, Criticisms and Short Prose Writings: Section 1 1968-1969: Blocks of granite; The sound of music; Enter Birtwistle; New favourites; Shawms and rackets; Alexander Goehr’s Naboth’s Vineyard; Harrison Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy; Minimal music; Chaconnes; About time too; Now you see it, now you don’t; Is this a record?; Play group; Work projects; Demolition squad; French polish; Two new works by Birtwistle; Not being done; This way madness; Boulez in the labyrinth; Skip and run; Hands off; Patchwork; Mr Birtwistle is out; Purcell in his cups; Brass tacks; With reference to Birtwistle’s Medusa; Scratch and co; Drums and symbols. Section 2 1970-1971: Old master; Food of love; Six to one; Ancient monument; Flowerpot men; Stockhausen and David Bedford; Birtwistle’s rituals; Satiety; Anachronisms; Big screen opera; Sign language; Boulez’s law; Stockhausen - the musician, the machine; Interconnections; Stockhausen kommt; Panethnic; Steve Reich, Phil Glass; Stockhausen; Towards interpretation; Stravarese; Uncommercial; Melody rides again; Disciplinarians; Dart’s epitaph. Section 3 1972-1977: Learning from scratch; Causerie; Circle complete; Christian Wolff; The experimental tradition; As the Titanic went down; Last week’s broadcast music: Morton Feldman; Last week’s broadcast music: electronic music; Last week’s broadcast music: Robert Simpson; Last week’s broadcast music: Harrison Birtwistle; Last week’s broadcast music: Anton Bruckner; Americana; Tippett at 70; Peak district; Bare essentials; Mexican discovery; Lindbergh’s flight. Part II Articles, Essays, Interviews and Longer Prose Pieces: Towards (a definition of) experimental music; Tim Souster’s night out at the Proms; John Cage in Paris; Steve Reich: an interview with Michael Nyman; Harrison Birtwistle; Cornelius Cardew’s The Great Learning; SR - mysteries of the phase; Cage and Satie; Cage/Cardew; The experimental scene; Experimental music and the American vernacular tradition; Gavin Bryars 1971 Michael Nyman 1975; Music: Glass; Music: obscure records; Music: fine art departments; Music: Glass and Budd; Music: John Cage; Hearing/seeing; George Brecht: interview by Michael Nyman; Steve Reich: interview; Music: the music of Hobbs and White; Music: pop music; Against intellectual complexity in music; Nam June Paik, composer; Appendix; Index.