Composer

No. 1 (October 1958)

• Table of Contents
• Pages 1-2: Editorial
• Pages 2-7: Gordon Jacob, Obituary: "Ralph Vaughan Williams" [Pages 2-6]; "Joseph Holbrooke" [Page 7]
• Pages 8-10: Report of a Meeting Between the Guild and the B.B.C
• Pages 10-12: Guy Warrack, "Catalogue Volume 1" [Report]
• Pages 13-19: Edmund Rubbra, "Letter to a Young Composer"
• Pages 19-26: [A Chartered Accountant], "Income Tax and the Composer and Musician"
• Page 27: Richard Arnell, "Ballet Contracts"
• Pages 28-29: Peter Tahourdin, "Word About Music"
• Pages 30-32: John Gardner, "Are M.S.S. Insurable?"
• Page 33: Correspondence
  • Robert Still
• Page 34: "Wanted: An Opera"
• Page 35: "White Rock Bottom"
• Pages 36-52: Regional Reports
  • Pages 36-40: Arthur Butterworth, "The North of England"
  • Pages 40-43: Norman Fulton, "The West of England"
  • Pages 44-45: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
  • Pages 46-49: David Wynne, "Wales"
  • Pages 50-52: Douglas Lilburn
• Page 53: New Members
• Page 54-55: Competitions

No. 2 (March 1959)

• Table of Contents
• Pages 1-2: Editorial
• Pages 3-5: Steuart Wilson (Sir), "Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M., October 12th 1872 – August 26th 1958" [Reprinted from the January 1959 issue of Music & Letters]
• Pages 6-11: Roy Douglas, "V.W.'s Scores" [Reprinted from the R.C.M. Magazine]
• Pages 12-14: Adrian Boult (Sir), "Vaughan Williams as seen by a Conductor"
• Pages 14-16: Gerald Cockshott, "Informal Sessions at 'The White Gates'
• Pages 16-18: Terence Kermode, "Vaughan Williams' Place in a Layman's Listening"
• Pages 18-20: Elizabeth Maconchy, "Vaughan Williams as a Teacher"
• Page 21: Thomas Pitfield, "Pilgrim's Progress (Quatrain on the Death of Vaughan Williams"
• Pages 21-22: Greenhouse Allt (Dr.), "Dr. Martin Shaw"
• Page 23: "Regional Report: Eastern Canada"
• Pages 24-25: Adrian Cruft, "Insurance of M.S.S."
• Page 26: Graham Whettam, "Insurance of M.S.S – continued"
• Page 27: "Travel in Greece"
• Page 28: "Operatic Subjects"
• Page 28: [Request by Mr. F.H. Vauville-Wright for information on composers Charles Arthur Rawlings and Alfred William Rawlings]
• Pages 29-31: Letters
  • Page 29: Graham Whettam, "Music for Dance"
  • Page 30: Ernest Tomlinson, "Orchestration M.S. Paper"
  • Pages 30-31: Ernest Tomlinson, "Public Attitude to Serious Music"
• Page 31: "Are Pigs better cared for than Music?"
• Page 31: "Exhausted Composers"
• Pages 32-45: Member News
• Page 46: New Members
• Page 47: Executive Committee List

No. 3 (October 1959)

• Table of Contents
• Pages 1-3: Editorial
• Page 3: Rutland Boughton, "Tribute to R.V.W."
• Pages 4-5: Stanford Robinson, "Haydn Wood: An Appreciation"
• Pages 5-6: Eric Maschwitz, "Hans May: An Appreciation"
• Pages 6-7: William Alwyn, "Dr. Hubert Clifford"
• Pages 7-10: "Report on Meeting with B.B.C. held on 10th July 1959"
• Page 10: Guy Warrack, A John Ireland Concert"
• Page 11: "Sir Thomas Beecham's Offer"
• Pages 11-14: Joan Kemp Potter, "The Present Needs of Amateur Operatic Societies"
• Pages 14-16: Ben Norris, "Film Composers – Rights"
• Pages 17-22: "A Survey of Publishing in its Relation to Contemporary Music"
  • Pages 17-18: Leonard Salzedo, "Publishing My Own Music"
  • Pages 19-20: James Haylock-Eyre, "Reproduction of Sheet Music"
  • Pages 21-22: [A Member of the Executive Committee], "Vigilance! Eternal Vigilance!"
• Pages 23-35: "The Publisher's Point of View"
  • Pages 24-25: Boosey & Hawkes
  • Pages 25-26: Chappell
  • Page 26: Chester
  • Pages 27-28: Curwen
  • Pages 28-30: Hinrichsen
  • Pages 30-31: Novello
  • Pages 31-32: Ricordi
  • Pages 33-35: Universal
• Pages 35-49: Regional Reports
  • Pages 35-38: Arthur Butterworth, "The North of England"
  • Pages 39-40: David Wynne, "Wales"
  • Pages 40-43: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
  • Pages 43-45: Douglas Lilburn, "New Zealand"
  • Pages 46-47: A. R. Sibson, "Southern Rhodesia"
  • Pages 47-48: Marvin Duchow, "Eastern Canada"
  • Page 48-49: Barbara Pentland, "Performances of British works between May 1958 to March 1959"
• Page 49: "Octogenarian Composer's Guild" [80th birthday notices for John Ireland and Cyril Scott]
• Page 49: "Competition" [Notice for Wind Music Society of London wind orchestra composition competition]
• Page 50: "Contradictory Critics"
• Page 50: New Members

No. 4 (March 1960)

• Table of Contents
• Page 1: Editorial
• Pages 2-3" Christopher Finzi, "Robin Milford (1903-1960)"
• Pages 4-5: Alan Bush, "A Tribute to Rutland Boughton"
• Pages 5-8: Steuart Wilson (Sir), "Rutland Boughton and Opera"
• Pages 8-9: Elizabeth Maconchy, "Result of the Postal Ballot on the Films Question" [report by the Chairman]
• Page 9: "A Song of Essex" [request by poet Gwen Mayhew to set her song of this title]
• Pages 10-11: Stephen Dodgson, "A New Look for Future A.G.MS."
• Pages 11-13: Eugene Goossens (Sir), "The American Orchestras and the Composer"
• Pages 14-15: Iain Hamilton, "Music on Continental Radios"
• Pages 15-16: Martin Cooper, "The Critic's Part"
• Pages 16-18: Gerald Macdonald (General Manager and Secretary), "Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society: 'Musica Viva'"
• Pages 19-21: Guy Warrack, "Endeavors Towards Copyright Reform"
• Pages 21-23: Guy Warrack, "Conseil International de Compositeurs"
• Pages 23-28: Peter Maxwell Davies, "Problems of a British Composer Today" [reprinted from the October 8, 1959 issue of The Listener]
• Pages 29-34: Robert Simpson, "Thoughts on Composing" [reprinted from the December 10, 1959 issue of The Listener]
• Pages 34-35: Anonymous, "Publishers Must Live"
• Pages 35-36: Competitions
• Page 36: New Members
• Page 37: Gerald Cockshott, "The Innocent Ear"
• Pages 37-47: Member News
• Page 48: "A Warning" [about copying published material]
• Page 48: "Repertoire of Wind Music" [call for items to be included in a list]
• Pages 49-50: 1960 Executive Committee Information

Interim Issue (June 1960)

• Table of Contents
• Pages 1-2: Editorial
• Page 2: Guy Warrack, "Jean Binet"
• Pages 3-6: Accounts
• Page 6: "Dr. Zoltán Kodály"
• Pages 7: "University of London Library Scores and Recordings"
• Pages 8-11: Discussion on Music in the Theatre (extract from the Minutes)
• Pages 11-14: Harry L. Willis and Brian Dunn, "Compositions for Amateur Performance"
• Pages 14-16: Discussion on the Problems Concerning Composers and Publishers (extract from the Minutes)
• Pages 16-18: "Publishing Matters"
  • Page 16: Hire Fees
  • Page 17-18: Francis Chagrin, "Associated-Rediffusion and Publishing Rights"
• Pages 18-19: "A Cautionary Tale"
• Page 20: "An International Conference of Composers" [conference notice]
• Pages 20-22: Robert Still, Comments on the article "Problems of a British Composer To-Day" by Peter Maxwell Davies"

No. 5 (October 1960)

• Pages i-ii: Table of Contents
• Pages 1-2: Peter Fricker, "Matyas Seiber"
• Pages 3-4: Lamar Crowson, "Arthur Benjamin"
• Pages 5-6: Cedric Cliffe, "Arthur Benjamin's Operas---a librettist's-eye view"
• Pages 7-10: Steuart Wilson (Sir), "Dr. Armstrong Gibbs"
• Pages 10-11: Guy Warrack, "C. Armstrong Gibbs"
• Pages 12-14: Meeting With B.B.C.
• Pages 14-15: Iain Hamilton, "International Conference of Composers; Stratford, Ontario"
• Pages 15-16: The Gulbenkian Foundation [announcement of grants]
• Page 17: New Music in London
• Pages 18-50: "Survey of Contemporary Music and the Record Industry"
  • Pages 18-20: Preface and Comparison Abroad
  • Pages 21-26: Summary of Recordings in Britain
  • Pages 26-28: Recordings Under the Auspices of the British Council
  • Pages 28-29: British Council Recordings of Contemporary British Music Currently Available (Autumn 1960)
  • Pages 29-30: Summary of Deletions of British Council Recordings
  • Pages 30-33: Decca
  • Pages 33-36: E.M.I.
  • Pages 37-39: Philips
  • Pages 39-41: Argo
  • Pages 41-43: Lyrita
  • Pages 43-45: The World Record Club
  • Pages 45-48: John Mitchell, "Thoughts of a Record Dealer"
  • Pages 48-50: Composers' Recordings Incorporated
• Page 50: Competitions
• Pages 51-69: Regional Reports
  • Pages 51-52: James Butt, "West of England"
  • Pages 52-54: Heathcote Statham (Dr.), "East Anglia"
  • Pages 54-55: Christopher Edmunds, "Midlands"
  • Pages 55-58: Arthur Butterworth, "North of England"
  • Pages 58-60: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
  • Pages 60-62: Raymond Warren, "Northern Ireland"
  • Pages 62-65: A.J. Potter, "Eire"
  • Pages 65-66: Stanley Glasser, "South Africa"
  • Pages 66-69: Douglas Lilburn, "New Zealand"
• Pages 69-74: J.M. Thompson, "The Australian Composer in 1960"
• Page 74: Gerald Cockshott, "Dmitri Shostakovich"
• Page 75: Christopher le Fleming, "Contemporary Music (and Painting) in Berkshire"
• Page 76: New Members

No. 6 (Spring 1961)

• Table of Contents
• Page 1: Editorial
• Pages 1-3: Stanford Robinson, "Howard Carr" [Obituary]
• Pages 3-6: Elizabeth Maconchy, "Visit to the U.S.S.R."
• Pages 6-8: "Memorandum of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain: To the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting"
• Pages 8-9: David Brown, "Composer's Scores in the London University Library"
• Pages 10-15: Everett Helm, "The Performer" [originally appearing in The World of Music, December 1960]
• Pages 15-16: A.J. Potter, "Fairy Tale from the Erse"
• Pages 16-18: Tristram Cary, "Electronic Muse?"
• Page 18: Letter from Faber and Faber [by P.F. du Sautoy]
• Page 19: News and Events
• Pages 19-22: "A Short Symposium of Women Composers"
  • Pages 19-20: Elizabeth Maconchy
  • Pages 20-21: An anonymous composer's wife
  • Page 21: Grace Williams, "Grace Williams' Triad"
  • Pages 21-22: Ruth Gipps
• Pages 22-33: Composers' Achievements

No. 7 Interim (Summer 1961)

• Table of Contents
• Page 1: Editorial
• Pages 1-5: [Accounts]
• Pages 5-14: Chairman's Reports
  • Pages 5-8: "Finance and the Future"
  • Pages 8-11: "Some Recent Work of the Guild"
  • Pages 11-14: "The Guild's Soviet Visitors"
• Pages 14-18: Notices
  • Page 14: Letter from Mr. S. Glasser
  • Page 14: Death Notice for Leslie Woodgate
  • Page 15: Letter from James B. Crover [Music Librarian at Vassar College]
  • Page 15: Audrey Evelyn Bone
  • Pages 16-18: Fourth International Competition of Musical Composition, Organized by the Casino of Divonne-Les-Bains

No. 8 (Autumn 1961)

• Table of Contents
• Page 1: Editorial
• Page 1: Advanced Notice of Annual Luncheon and General Meeting
• Pages 2-5: BBC. Meeting with Mr. Glock
• Pages 6-30: Regional Reports
  • Pages 6-7: "Some Notes from Australia"
  • Pages 7-9: Heathcote Statham, "East Anglia"
  • Pages 9-11: Boyd Neel (Dr.), "Report on Music in Eastern Canada"
  • Pages 11-14: Ronald Tremain, "New Zealand"
  • Pages 14-16: Arthur Butterworth, "North of England"
  • Pages 17-18: Raymond Warren, "Report from Northern Ireland"
  • Pages 18-21: A.R. Sibson, "Some Rhodesian Musical Developments" and "Report from Southern Rhodesia"
  • Pages 22-23: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
  • Pages 24-26: Stanley Glasser, "Report from South Africa"
  • Pages 26-28: Robert Smith, "Wales"
  • Pages 28-30: James Butt, "Music in the West Country"
• Pages 30-31: "Some Impressions of Those Who Entertained Our Visitors This Summer, Boris Lyatoshinsky and Kiril Molchanov"
  • Page 30: Mrs. Gena Hornstein
  • Pages 30-31: Elizabeth Maconchy
  • Page 31: Peter Racine Fricker
  • Page 31: David Lloyd-Jones
  • Page 31: Richard Arnell
• Pages 32-33: The Films Sub-Committee – Composers' Guild
• Pages 33-34: Graham Whettam, Letter to the Chairman and Executive Committee
• Pages 35-40: Reginald Smith Brindle, Letter to the Editor: "A Challenge to the Guild"
• Pages 40-44: Wilfred C. Smith, "British Music in Concert Programmes"
• Pages 44-46: Guy Warrack, "Conseil International des Compositeurs"
• Pages 46-47: Thomas Pitfield, "Sept. 1961 Standing Conference for Amateur Music"
• Pages 47-49: A Guild 'Tourist-Group' to the USSR
• Pages 49-50: Odds and Ends
• Pages 50-51: Competitions
• Page 51: New Orchestral Venture
• Pages 52-53: Mark Lubbock, "Obituary: Leslie Woodgate"

No. 9 (Spring 1962)

• Table of Contents
• Page 1: Editorial
• Pages 1-5: Daphne Oram, "Electronic Music"
• Pages 5-8: Thea Musgrave, "A Visit to the USSR"
• Pages 8-10: William Wordsworth, "Impressions of a Visit to the U.S.S.R."
• Pages 11-12: Christopher Headington, "Aesthetics and the Contemporary Music Scene"
• Pages 12-14: Eric Salzman, "The World of Music: Survey Finds Composers Hold Odd Jobs in Order to Make Their Living"
• Pages 14-15: "Publishing Contracts: The Right to Make Arrangements"
• Pages 16-19: Ernest Tomlinson, "Light Music and Sound Radio"
• Pages 19-21: David Sell, "The Composer in New Zealand"
• Pages 22-24: John Longmire, "The John Ireland Society"
• Page 25: Stephen Dodgson, "Verses for Children"
• Pages 25-26: Michael Davis, "Wake Up!"
• Pages 26-29: "A Fascinating Competition"
• Page 29: Exhibition of Manuscripts
• Pages 30-44: Member's News
• Pages 45-48: Letters to the Editor
  • Pages 45-46: Leonard Scott
  • Page 46: Grace Williams
  • Page 47: Robert Smith
  • Page 47: H.L. Walter
  • Page 48: Mary Chandler
• Page 48: Odds and Ends
• Page 49: Publication Notice for The Modern Composer and His World, edited by John Beckwith and Udo Kasemets
• Pages 49-50: Women Composers Competition Notice
• Page 50: Some Publications Received
• Page 50: Thomas Pitfield, "The Composer on Strike"
• Page 51: Harry Isaacs, "Obituary" [York Bowen]
• Page 52: Executive Committee and Members Elected Since 1st September 1961

No. 10 (Winter 1962)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Page 2: Malcolm Arnold, "Warning" [about terms of film composers' contracts)
• Pages 2-3: Ernest Tomlinson, "Fascinating Conclusion"
• Pages 3-4: Philip Cannon, "New Projects: Summer General Meeting, Arts Council June 2nd"
• Pages 4-5: Elizabeth Maconchy, Book Review: The Modern Composer and His World, edited by John Beckwith and Udo Kasemets
• Pages 5-6: Wilfred Josephs, "The Nottingham Captain"
• Pages 6-7: Guy Warrack, "Music Information Centres Third International Meeting in Stockholm and Upsala August, 1962"
• Pages 7-8: Stephen Dodgson, "Music in Schools"
• Pages 8-14: Regional Reports
  • Pages 8-9: Heathcote Statham (Dr.), "Eastern Region"
  • Pages 9-10: Anthony Middleton, "The Midlands"
  • Pages 10-11: Raymond Warren, "Northern Ireland"
  • Page 11: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
  • Pages 11-13: Robert Smith, "Wales"
  • Page 14: James Butt, "The West of England"
• Pages 14-19: International Reports
  • Pages 14-15: Richard Meale, "Australia"
  • Pages 15-16: Boyd Neel (Dr.), "Canada"
  • Pages 16-18: ["A Correspondent"], "Jamaican Outlook"
  • Page 18: Ronald Tremain (Dr.), "New Zealand"
  • Pages 18-19: Stanley Glasser, "South Africa"
  • Page 19: James McHarg (Dr.), "Southern Rhodesia"
• Pages 19-20: Competitions
• Pages 20-22: Obituary
  • Pages 20-22: J.M. Thomson, "Sir Eugene Goossens in Australia"
  • Page 22: Harold Rutland, "John Ireland"
• Page 23: Odds and Ends
• Page 23: A Welcome to New Members
• Page 23: The Composers's Guild of Great Britain 1962 Executive Committee
• Page 23: Books and Periodicals Received
• Page 24: [Subscription Information]

No. 11 (Spring 1963)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 2-3: Colin Evans, "Young Composers: The Young Composer in a Modern World"
• Pages 4-8, 25: Stephen Dodgson, "Russian Journal"
• Pages 9-19: New Compositions 1962
• Page 19: Competitions
• Page 20: [advertisement for The British Institute of Recorded Sound; advertisement for GROUP 5 Ltd]
• Page 21: [advertisement for Arthur Hedley's Selected Correspondence of Fryderyk Chopin; advertisement for The Royal School of Church Music; advertisement for Novello]
• Page 22: [advertisement for The Pestalozzi Children's Village Trust; advertisement for Hansom Books]
• Page 23: Personal
• Page 24 [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Pages 25-26: John Warrack, "Profile: Herbert Howells"
• Pages 26-27: Joan Cross, "The National School of Opera: A Valedictory"
• Pages 27-29: "Percussion"
  • Pages 27-28: Roderick Biss, "I. Notation"
  • Pages 28-29: Thomas Pitfield, "II. A New Kind of Xylophone: The Patterphone"
• Pages 29-31: Notebook
• Pages 31-32: Geoffrey Bush, Book Review: The Language of Modern Music, by Donald Mitchell (published by Faber)
• Page 32: Letters
  • Gervelt Oscar
• Page 32: Publications Received
• Page 32: New Members

No. 12 (Autumn 1963)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 2-3: Douglas Lilburn, "Notes from Darmstadt"
• Pages 3-4: J.M.T. et al., "Counting the Beats: Music and Poetry by Patric Dickinson and Lennox Berkeley"
• Pages 4-5: Anna Lockwood, "The Logic of Serialism"
• Pages 6-7: Michael Tippett, "Benjamin Britten: A Birthday Tribute"
• Page 8: A.J. Potter, "Time's Irish Buskboys"
• Pages 9-15: James Iliff, "An Index of Symmetrical All-interval Series"
• Page 15: [advertisement for The Songwriters Guild of Great Britain; advertisement for Blackwell's Music Shop]
• Page 16: [advertisement for Murray Schafer's British Composers in Interview (published by Faber and Faber); advertisement for Travel Diaries by Malcolm Williamson]
• Page 16: [Benjamin Britten tribute to Lennox Berkeley]
• Pages 16-19: Notebook
• Pages 19, 21: Book Reviews
  • Page 19: Walter Bergmann, Editing Early Music (ed.) by Thurston Dart, Walter Emery, and Christopher Morris (published by Novello, OUP, and Stainer & Bell)
  • Pages 19, 21: Adrian Wintle, English Church Music 1963 (published by the Royal School of Church Music)
  • Page 21: Geoffrey Bush, British Composers in Interview by Murray Schafer (published by Faber)
  • Page 20: [advertisement by Galliard Ltd.; advertisement for the London Musical Club; Avertisement for Composer]
• Pages 21, 23: Letters
  • Page 21: Peter Crowe (reply by Roderick Biss on pages 21, 23)
  • Page 23: Stephen Longstaff
• Page 22: [advertisement for Barrie & Rockliff; advertisement for Tele-See]
• Page 23: Obituary
  • Page 23: Manuell Frankell
  • Page 23: Julius Harrison
• Page 23: [notice for Ernest Ansermet lectures]
• Page 23: Competition
• Page 24: [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Pages 25-26, 28-32: Music in Britain and Overseas
  • Page 25: Raymond Warren, "Music in Northern Ireland"
  • Pages 25-26: Peter Platt, "New Zealand"
  • Pages 26, 28: John Joubert, "The Midlands"
  • Pages 28-29: James Butt, "The West"
  • Pages 29-31: Arthur Butterworth, "The North"
  • Page 31: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
  • Pages 31-32: ["Our Representative"], "Wales"
• Pages 27-28: "Visit by Rodion Shchedrin"
• Page 33: [advertisement for J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd]

No. 13 (Spring 1964)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Page 1: Richard Arnell, "Editorial"
• Pages 2-4: Wilfrid Mellers, "American Paradox"
• Page 5: Basil Cameron, "Sibelius's Eighth Symphony"
• Pages 6-7: Sue James and Jenny Sieff, "Beatle Piece"
• Page 7: [Durham Summer School Notice]
• Page 7: [advertisement for Chappell & Co Ltd; advertisement for Argo]
• Pages 8-9: Colin Mason, "Paul Hindemith"
• Page 9: [notice for the 1964 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music]
• Pages 10-11: Craig Dodd, "Berlin's New Concert Hall"
• Pages 12-14: Bill Hopkins, "The Young Composer at Oxford"
• Pages 14-15: Inglis Gundry, "Composition with more than Twelve Tones"
• Page 15: [advertisement for Boosey & Hawkes]
• Page 15: [notice for British music performances in Germany]
• Pages 16-17: J.M. Thomson, "Munich Composers"
• Pages 18-19: David Wooldridge, "Bartok in Beirut" [reprinted from the January 30, 1964 issue of The Guardian]
• Pages 19-21: John Burn, "Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony"
• Page 21: [advertisement for Cassell]
• Page 22 [advertisement for Barrie & Rockliff; advertisement for Group 5]
• Pages 23, 25: Alan Walker, "Words and Music"
• Page 24: [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Page 25: [Notice for Alderburgh Festival]
• Page 25: [advertisement for The Songwriters' Guild of Great Britain]
• Pages 26-27: Music Abroad
  • Page 26: Anna Lockwood, "Donaueschinger Musiktage October 19th-20th, 1963"
  • Pages 26-27: R.J.M., "Introducing La Brontè: Notes from Paris"
• Page 27: [Notice for Harold Johnson's new book on Sibelius]
• Page 27: [advertisement for Patersons; advertisement for the Musicians' Benevolent Fund]
• Page 28: Notebook
• Page 29: [advertisement for Novello and Company Limited]
• Pages 30-32: Book Reviews
  • Page 30: Elizabeth Maconchy, Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday, edited by Anthony Gishford (published by Faber)
  • Pages 30-31: Robin Maconie, Recontres avec Pierre Boulez by Antoine Goléa (published by Julliard)
  • Page 31: J.M. Thomson, The World of Opera by Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock (published by Methuen)
  • Page 31: J.M. Thomson, The Vienna Opera by Heinrich Kralik (published by Methuen)
  • Pages 31-32: Egon Wellesz, The Birth of Modern Opera by Patricia Howard (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
  • Page 32: [Unsigned], The Pelican History of Music, Volume 2: Renaissance and Baroque, edited by Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens (published by Penguin Books)
  • Page 32: [Unsigned], Benjamin Britten—a complete catalogue of his works (published by Boosey and Hawkes)
  • Pages 32-33: Letters
    • Page 32: Robert Smith
    • Pages 32-33: Alexander Goehr
  • Pages 33-34: Obituary
    • Page 33: [Unsigned], Karl Amadeus Hartmann
    • Page 33: [Unsigned], John Hollingsworth
    • Page 33: [Unsigned], Parry Jones
    • Page 33: [Unsigned], Jan Rychlík
    • Pages 33-34: Wilfrid Mellers, "March Blitzstein"
  • Page 34: Competition
  • Page 35: Macnaghten Concerts' Enterprise
  • Pages 36-38: Peter Racine Fricker, "The Vanishing Composers"
  • Pages 38-39: Reports
    • Page 38: Roy Bohana, [Schools' Music Association Annual Conference]
    • Pages 38-39: Heathcote Statham, "Eastern Region"
  • Page 39: Competitions and Notices
  • Pages 40-41: Brief Points
  • Page 41: New Members
  • Page 41: Peter Racine Fricker, "Writers, Composers, Producers—November 1963" [report on the B.B.C. conference of this name]
  • Pages 42-50, 53-55: New Works 1963
  • Page 51: [advertisement for Boosey & Hawkes; advertisement for The Incorporated Society of Musicians; advertisement for the London Musical Club]
  • Page 52: [advertisement for the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music; advertisement for Tele-See]
  • Page 53: [advertisement for the Journal of the British Institute for Recorded Sound]

No. 14 (Autumn 1964)

• [advertisement for Schott]
• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Page 2: Richard Arnell, "Reaching the Audience" (Editorial)
• Page 2: J.M.T., "Composer as a Quarterly"
• Page 3: Arthur Bliss, "Let Us Take the Initiative"
• Pages 4-6: Benjamin Britten, "From the Aspen Award Speech"
• Page 6: [advertisement for Faber and Faber]
• Pages 7-8: Patric Dickinson, "Words for Music"
• Page 8: [advertisement for Boosey & Hawkes]
• Pages 9-10: Colin Taylor, "Peter Warlock at Eton"
• Page 10: [notice for John Barbirolli's trust fund]
• Page 10: [notice for a Ursula Vaughan Williams letter to the Sunday Times]
• Pages 11-12: Alan Walker, "Words and Music"
• Page 12: [notice for Ruth Gipps's Chanticleer Orchestra concerts]
• Page 12: [notice for a Park Lane Group avant-garde jazz concert]
• Page 12: [advertisement for the Tempo journal; Chappell advertisement for music by Richard Stoker]
• Pages 13-15: "The Ridiculous Division: Classics—Jazz and Pop"
• Page 14: [Cassell advertisement for William Mann's Richard Strauss: A Critical Study of the Operas]
• Page 15: [The Globe Publishing Company's advertisement for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]
• Page 15: [notice for performances of Elizabeth Lutyens's Quincunx and Richard Hall's Fourth Symphony]
• Pages 16-17: "Gunther Schuller on the American Scene: A Conversation"
• Pages 17-19: Notebook
  • Pages 17-18: Alan Bush, "Ronald Stevenson's Passacaglia
  • Page 18: John Legard: "British Transport Film Music"
  • Pages 18-19: J.M. Thomson, "Building a History of Music: A note on the British Institute of Recorded Sound"
• Page 19 [notices of new appointments and performances]
• Pages 20-21, 23-24: "Music Abroad: Prague '64"
  • Pages 20-21: Peter Racine Fricker, "The Czech Guild"
  • Page 21, 23-24: Adrian Cruft: "Prague Diary"
• Page 21: [Galliard Limited advertisement for Adrian Cruft's music]
• Page 22: [Paterson advertisement for the music of Malcolm Arnold]
• Pages 24-27: Musical Events
• Page 25: [advertisement for Universal Edition]
• Page 27: Letters
  • Page 27: Benjamin Boretz, editor of Perspectives of New Music (with a reply by Alan Walker)
• Page 28: [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Pages 29-32: Book Reviews
  • Page 29: Richard Arnell, Music in a New Found Land by Wilfrid Mellers (published by Barrie and Rockliff)
  • Page 29: Anthony Milner, Handel at Work by John Tobin (published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.)
  • Page 30: John Joubert, English Church Music 1964 (produced by the Royal School of Church Music)
  • Pages 30-31: Stephen Dodgson, Music in Britain (1951-1962) by Colin Mason (published for the British Council by Longmans, Green & Co.)
  • Page 31: J.M. Thomson, A Pictorial History of Music by Paul Henry Lang and Otto Bettman (published by Hodder & Stoughton)
  • Page 31: J.M. Thomson, The Penguin Book of Lieder, edited and translated by S.S. Prawer (published by Penguin Books)
  • Pages 31-32: Shorter Reviews
    • Page 31: The World of the Virtuoso by Marc Pincherle (published by Gollancz)
    • Page 31: A Hundred Years of Music by Gerald Abraham (published by Methuen)
    • Pages 31-32: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Second Edition) by Percy A. Scholes, revised and updated by J.O. Ward (published by Oxford University Press)
    • Page 32: The Pan Book of Opera by Arthur Jacobs and Stanley Sadie (published by Pan Books Ltd.)
    • Page 32: Brio, Journal of the United Kingdom Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries No. 1 (Spring 1964)
    • Page 32: The Music of Bach: An Introduction by C.S. Terry (published by Dover Publications)
    • Page 32: Beethoven—His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan (published by Unwin Books)
    • Page 32: Richard Strauss: A Complete Catalogue, compiled by Willi Schuh and Ernst Roth (published by Boosey & Hawkes)
• Page 29: [Basil Cameron 80th birthday congratulations]
• Page 30: [advertisement for Group 5]
• Pages 32-33: Obituary
  • Page 32: Pierre Monteux
  • Page 32: Sir George Dyson
  • Pages 32-33: Louis Gruenberg
  • Page 33: J.M. Thomson, "Ernest Lashmar"
  • Page 33: Robert Elkin
• Page 33: R.F. Whale, "The Meaning of 'Publication': P.R.S. interpretation"
• Page 33: "Recent important commissions and first performances"
• Pages 34-37: "Music in Britain and Overseas"
  • Page 34: John Joubert, "The Midlands"
  • Pages 34-35: James McHarg (Dr.), "Rhodesia"
  • Page 35: Walter Swanson, "South Africa"
  • Pages 35-36: Raymond Warren, "Northern Ireland"
  • Page 36: James Butt, "The West"
  • Page 37: Robert Crawford, "Scotland"
• Page 36: [advertisement for the World Wildlife Fund]
• Page 37: "Guild Benevolent Fund Established"
• Pages 38-40: "Special Announcement: Composers' Guild Awards"
• Page 39: [advertisement for The Songwriters' Guild of Great Britain]
• Page 40: [advertisement by Novello & Co Ltd for works by Arthur Bliss]

No. 15 (April 1965)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Page 1: Editorial
• Pages 2-3: Michael Tippett, "Schönberg's Letters" [book review of Arnold Schönberg, Letters, edited by Erwin Stein; published by Faber & Faber]
• Page 3: [advertisement for Schott's Tippett scores]
• Pages 3-4: Book Review: Thomas Eastwood, Michael Tippett: A Symposium on his Sixtieth Birthday, edited by Thomas Eastwood (published by Faber & Faber)
• Page 4: [Macmillan advertisement for George Martin's book Verdi: His Music, Life and Times]
• Pages 5-6: Ross Lee Finney,"Composer in residence"
• Page 6: [Boosey & Hawkes advertisement for the journal Tempo]
• Page 6: [notice that Adrian Cruft has been awarded the John Clementi Collard Fellowship by the Worshipful Company of Musicians]
• Pages 7-9: Franz Reizenstein, "Hindemith: some aspersions answered" [response to Hans F. Redlich, "Paul Hindemith―a Re-assessment," Music Review, August 1964]
• Page 9: [advertisement for Making Music, published by the Rural Music Schools Association]
• Pages 10-12: Elizabeth Maconchy, "The image of greatness: Ralph Vaughan Williams"
• Pages 12-13: [Geoffrey Bush], "Russia 1964"
• Page 13: [advertisement for Barrie & Rockliff]
• Pages 14-15: J.M. Thomson, "Opera in the Ruhr"
• Page 15: [notices]
• Page 15: [advertisement for Apollo Sound]
• Pages 16-22: Words and music
  • Pages 16-20: John Backus, "Die Reihe: a scientific evaluation"
  • Pages 20-22: Hugh Davies, "Die Reihe Reconsidered―1"
• Pages 22-23: Peter Maxwell Davies, "A Letter"
• Pages 23-24: Robin Maconie, "De verbis gustibus-que musicalis discutandis et al"
  • Pages24-25: Alan Walker responds, "A question of communication"
• Page 25: Notes
• Page 25: 1965 Chairman: Richard Arnell
• Pages 26-27: John Gardner, "An analysis of concert programs"
• Pages 27-29: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Pages 30-36: Book Reviews
  • Page 30: G.W. Hopkins, Egon Wellesz by Robert Schollum (published by Osterreichischer Bundesverlag)
  • Pages 30-31: Bernard Rands, Richard Strauss: A Critical Survey of the Operas by William Mann (published by Cassell and Co.)
  • Pages 31-32: Mark Lubbock, Singing With Richard Strauss by Lotte Lehmann (published by Hamish Hamilton)
  • Pages 32-33: Philip Cannon, French opera, its development to the Revolution by Norman Demuth (published by Artemis)
  • Page 33: J.M. Thomson, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera by Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Pages 33-34: Anthony Milner, A Concise History of Hungarian Music by Bence Szabolcsi (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
  • Page 34: Stephen Dodgson, Journey Towards Music by Victor Gollancz (published by Gollancz Ltd)
  • Pages 34-35: Kenneth Dommett, Brandy of the Damned by Colin Wilson (published by John Baker)
  • Pages 35-36: Bernard Rands, The Art and Science of the Timpani by Henry W. Taylor (published by John Baker)
  • Page 36: Wilfrid Mellers, The Penguin Book of American Folk Songs, edited by Alan Lomax (published by Penguin Books)
• Page 36: Corrections
• Pages 36-37: Obituary
  • Page 36: Francis Toye
  • Page 36: Frank Thistleton
  • Page 36: Arnold Goldsbrough
  • Page 36: Dame Edith Sitwell
  • Page 36: Trefor Jones
  • Page 36: John Bishop [with tributes by John Horner, Don Banks, and Malcolm Williamson]
• Page 37: New Members
• Page 38: [advertisement for Argo; advertisment for Group 5]
• Page 39: [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Page 40: [advertisement for CBS Records]
• Page 41: [advertisement for Discurio]
• Page 42: [advertisement for HMV/EMI]

No. 16 ― Special 21st Birthday Issue ― (July 1965)

• Page 1: Stephen Dodgson, "Editorial"
• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 2-8: Deryck Cooke, "Mahler's Tenth Symphony: sonority, texture and substance"
• Page 8: [notice that Benjamin Britten wins Guild Award]
• Pages 9-12: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Is there a crisis in German opera?"
• Page 12: [advertisement for music books from Barrie & Rockliff]
• Pages 13-14: Alan Rawsthorne, "The Ballades of Chopin"
• Page 14: [notice for the Durham Twentieth Century Festival and Summer School]
• Pages 15-16: C. Armstrong Gibbs, "Alarms and excursions" [reprinted from the Composers' Guild Bulletin No. 18, March 1957]
• Page 16: [advertisement for Boosey & Hawkes TTempo magazine; advertisement for the Rural Music Schools Association Making Music magazine]
• Pages 17-21: Hugh Davies, "Die Reihe Reconsidered―2"
• Page 19: [advertisement for the complete Arnold Schoenberg edition by Kalmus]
• Page 21: [notices]
• Page 21: Letter from Robert Still
• Page 21: [advertisement from Oxford University Press for Frank Howes' book The Music of William Walton]
• Pages 22-23: Alan and Nancy Bush, "21 years of the Composers' Guild: How it all began"
• Pages 23-25: William Alwyn, "1066 and all that"
• Page 25: Publications Received
• Page 25: [advertisement for The Recorder and Music Magazine]
• Pages 26: Guy Warrack, "The Guild in the fifties"
• Pages 27-28: "Russian View of England"
• Page 28: New Works
• Page 28: Chairmen of the Guild
• Page 28: [advertisement for Apollo Sound]
• Page 29: Bill Hopkins, "Paris Diary"
• Page 30: "South Africa"
• Page 30: Peter Crowe, "On Copying Tippett"
• Page 30: Notice for Listen
• Pages 31-32: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British music"
• Page 32: [notice for a new recording rights journal]
• Pages 33-37: Book Reviews
  • Page 33: Keith Walker, Gust Mahler: his mind and his music, volume I by Neville Cardus (published by Gollancz)
  • Pages 33-34: Peter Dickinson, Alban Berg by Willi Reich (published by Thames and Hudson, London)
  • Pages 34-35: Alan Jefferson, Donizetti by William Ashbrook (published by Cassell & Co.)
  • Page 35: Malcolm Arnold, Saint-Saens and his Circle by James Harding (published by Chapman & Hall)
  • Page 36: Stephen Dodgson, Introducing Music by Otto Karolyi (published by Penguin Books)
  • Page 36: Peter Campbell, Four hundred years of music printing by A. Hyatt King (published by the British Museum)
  • Page 36: J.M.T., Minor Recollections by Otto Klemperer (published by Dennis Dobson)
  • Page 36: J.M.T., Motif 12 (Winter 1964), edited by Ruari McLean (published by Shenval Press)
  • Pages 36-37: J.M.T., Music in Belgium (published by the Centre Belge de Documentation Musicale)
  • Page 37: J.M.T., Performing Right unveiled
  • Page 37: [unsigned], Haydn, a Creative Life in Music (second revised and enlarged edition) by Karl Geiringer in collaboration with Irene Geiringer (published by Allen & Unwin)
  • Page 37: [unsigned], Gluck and the Opera (a reissue) by Ernest Newman (published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.)
• Pages 37-38: Obituary
  • Page 37: Olive Zorian
  • Page 37: Gordon Thorne
  • Page 37: Erik Chisholm
  • Pages 37-38: Sinclair Logan
• Page 38: New Members
• Page 38: Notes
• Page 38: [advertisement for Group 5]
• Page 39: Jasper Rooper, "Questions on Music"
• Page 39: [advertisement for Truvox Ltd]
• Page 40: [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Page 41: [advertisement for Discurio]
• Page 42: [advertisement for Universal Edition]

No. 17 (October 1965)

• Page 1: Richard Arnell, "To choose or not to choose..."
• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 2-5: Eric Salzman, "'Modern Music' in retrospect" [reprinted from Perspectives of New Music Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1964)]
• Page 5: [advertisement for Mills Music Ltd.]
• Page 5: [notice]
• Page 5: Correction
• Pages 6-7: John Gardner, "A Russian contrapuntist"
• Pages 8-10: Egon Wellesz, "Recollections of Schoenberg"
• Pages 9-10: 80th Birthday Tributes to Egon Wellesz by G.W.H. and Max Deutsch
• Pages 10-11: Gerald Larner, "New music and old scores" [reprinted from the July 31, 1965 issue of The Guardian]
• Pages 12-13: Peter Crump, "Ives, then and now: a note on originality and the establishment"
• Pages 13-14: Jenny McLeod, "Boulez at Basle"
• Page 14: Robin Maconie, "Darmstadt 20—the end of the interregnum"
• Page 14 [notices]
• Pages 15-16: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Page 16: Ann Carr-Boyd, "Wardour Castle 1965"
• Pages 17-22: Book Reviews
  • Page 17: Erik Smith, Mozart, a documentary biography by Otto Erich Deustche, translated by Eric Blom, Peter Branscombe, and Jeremy Noble (published by A. & C.)
  • Page 18: Christopher Shaw, Letters to Nimrod by Edward Elgar, edited and annotated by Percy M. Young (published by Dennis Dobson)
  • Pages 18-19: Roger Fiske, Harmonious Meeting by Wilfrid Mellers (published by Dennis Dobson)
  • Pages 19-20: Marcella Barzetti, Verdi: his music, life and time by George Martin (published by Macmillan)
  • Page 20: Roger Hollinrake, Wagner at Bayreuth; experiment and tradition by Geoffrey Skelton (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
  • Pages 20-21: Adrian Cruft, The Music of William Walton by Frank Howes (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Pages 21-22: Jane Clark, Landowska on Music, edited, collected, and translated by Denise Restout and Robert Hawkins (published by Secker & Warburg)
  • Page 22: J.M. Thomson, Dr. Charles Burney, a literary biography by Roger Lonsdale (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Pages 22, 24: J.M. Thomson, The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra by Fritz Hennenberg; The Leipzig Thomaner Chor by Richard Petzoldt; The Dresden Staatskapelle by Karl Laux; and The Dresden Kreuz Chor by Erna Hedwig Hofmann (all published by Veb Edition)
  • Page 24: [unsigned], The Cheltenham Festival by Frank Howes
  • Page 24: [unsigned], Current Musicology: Spring 1965 [journal]
  • Page 24: [unsigned], The Flute and Flute Playing by Theobald Boehm (published by Dover Books/Constable and Company)
• Page 23: Illustration: A page from The Musical Entertainer, engraved by George Bickham
• Page 24: [advertisement for Barrie & Rockliff]
• Page 25: [advertisement for Music in Our Time Records; advertisement for Rudall, Carte & Co. Ltd.; advertisement for Edition Leipzig]
• Pages 26-28: Notes
• Page 28: [advertisement for Apollo Sound]
• Page 29: [J. & W. Chester Ltd. advertisement for the music of Thea Musgrave; advertisement for Peter Dominic Ltd]
• Page 30: Colin Hand, "Composing for Schools"
• Page 31: [advertisement for The Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music; advertisement for Edition Breitkopf; advertisement for The University of Chicago Press]
• Page 32: Philip Cannon, "Gordon Jacob: 70th Birthday Tribute"
• Pages 32-33: A.F. Leighton Thomas, "Promoting Music in Wales: A Note on the Welsh Guild"
• Pages 33-34: Obituary
  • Page 33: Charles Kennedy Scott
  • Page 33: Edward Sackville West
  • Pages 33-34: Hans Oppenheim
  • Page 34: "Erik Chisholm: A Tribute by Kenneth Wright"
• Pages 35,. 37, 39-40: Regional Reports
  • Page 35: Raymond Warren, "Northern Ireland"
  • Pages 35, 37: John Joubert, "The Midlands"
  • Page 37: Thomas Pitfield, "The North"
  • Pages 39-40: William Wordsworth, "Scotland"
  • Page 40: Bernard Barrell, "East Anglia"
• Page 36: [Hinrichsen advertisement for the music of Robin Orr]
• Page 38: [advertisement for the Quarterly Journal of the British Institute of Recorded Sound; advertisement for Group 5]
• Page 39: [advertisement for Tempo; advertisement for Making Music]
• Page 40: [advertisement for Youth and Music; advertisement for The Recorder and Music Magazine]
• Page 41: [advertisement for Discurio]
• Page 42: [advertisement for Universal Edition]

No. 18 (January 1966)

• Page 1: J.M. Thomson, "Experience in common"
• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 2-5: Eric Crozier, "Composer and librettist"
• Page 5: [advertisement for Faber Music]
• Pages 6-9: Tristram Cary, "Sproggletaggle"
• Pages 10-11: Wilfrid Mellers, "Edgard Varèse ― a great central figure"
• Pages 11-12: Frederic Page, "Profile of Douglas Lilburn"
• Pages 12-15: Anthony Ridley, "The later works of Egon Wellesz"
• Page 14: [correction]
• Pages 16, 18: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British music"
• Page 17: [advertisement for Apollo Sound]
• Page 18: [advertisment for the music of Gustav Holst by J. & W. Chester, Ltd.]
• Pages 19-23: Book Reviews
  • Page 19: Anthony Milner, The Keyboard Music of C.P.E. Bach by Philip Barford (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
  • Pages 19-20: John Lambert, Debussy: His Life and Mind, Volume II by Edward Lockspeiser (published by Cassell)
  • Pages 20-21: John Joubert, A History of Music by William L. Smoldon (published by Herbert Jenkins)
  • Pages 21-22: Eric Crozier, The Story of Sadler's Wells by Dennis Arundell (published by Hamish Hamilton)
  • Page 22: Bill Hopkins, Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik , Vol. IX: 'Notation Neuer Musik' (published by Schott)
  • Pages 22-23: Wilfrid Mellers, Music and Musicians in Early America by Irving Lowens (published by Norton)
  • Page 23: Roger Oliver, BBC Music Library Catalogues (published by the BBC)
  • Page 23: J.M. Thomson, Old English Instruments of Music by Francis W. Galpin, revised by Thurston Dart (published by Methuen)
• Page 21: [advertisement for Barrie & Rockliff)
• Page 23: [notices]
• Pages 24-27: Notes [by Bernard Jacobson]
• Page 27: Letters
  • Stephen S. Moore
  • Edwin H. Alton
• Pages 27-29: Obituary
  • Page 27: Don Julian Carrillo
  • Page 27: Friedrich Wildgans
  • Page 28: Myra Hess (Dame) [BBC tribute by Howard Ferguson]
  • Page 28: Frank Hutchens
  • Page 28: Herbert Kennedy Andrews
  • Page 28: Scott Goddard
  • Page 28: Ernest Read
  • Page 28: Daniel Macmillan
  • Page 28: Max Hinrichsen (F.T.C.L.)
  • Page 28: Jeffrey Mark
  • Pages 28-29: Henry Dixon Cowell [tribute by Peter Dickinson]
• Page 29: Ranulf Glanville, "Archiectural Association concerts"
• Page 29: [Boosey & Hawkes advertisement for Tempo]
• Page 30: [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Page 31: Guild Notes
  • BC-Guild consultati ve committee formed
  • Viola da gamba competition
• Page 31: Regional Report (East Anglia) by Bernard Barrell
• Page 31: [advertisement for Group 5]
• Page 32: "Guild Activity— A Summary"
• Page 32: "Eventful 21st Annual General Meeting"
• Page 32: New Members
• Page 33: [advertisement for Discurio]
• Page 34: [advertisement for Universal Edition]

No. 19 (Spring 1966)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 2-3: Benjamin Britten, "Early influences: a tribute to Frank Bridge (1879-1941)" [reprinted from The Sunday Telegraph and the January 9, 1966 issue of BBC Music Magazine]
• Pages 3-4: Morton Feldman, "Pre-determinate/Indeterminate
• Pages 5-41, 43, 45-47, 49-51, 53, 55, 57-61, 63, 65, 67-69, 71-73, 75, 77-85, 87, 89: "Music and Education in the Commonwealth: Papers from the conference held at the University of Liverpool in September 1965"
  • Page 5: Yehudi Menuhin, "The meaning of the Conference"
  • Pages 6-7: Basil Smallman, "Introduction"
  • Pages 7-41, 45-47, 49: Africa
    • Pages 7-12: Hugh Tracey, "A plan for African music"
    • Pages 12-16: Klaus P. Wachsmann, "Negritude in music" [sic]
    • Pages 16-19: J. H. Kwabena Nketia, "Artistic values in African music"
    • Pages 19-22: Atta Annan Mensah, "The impact of western music on the musical traditions of Ghana"
    • Pages 22-25: Graham Hyslop, "Music and education in Africa"
    • Pages 25-34: Fela Sowande, "Nigerian music and musicians: then and now"
    • Pages 34-41: Oba Adetoyese Laoye I (the Timi of Ede), "Music of Western Nigeria: origin and use"
    • Pages 41, 43, 45-47, 49: W.W.C. Echezona, "Compositional technique of Nigerian traditional music"
  • Pages 50-51, 53, 55, 57-59: Ceylon
    • Pages 50-51, 53, 55, 57-59: W.B. Makulloluwa, "Music education in Ceylon"
  • Pages 60-61, 63, 65, 67-69: Canada
    • Pages 60-61, 63, 65: Boyd Neel, "The Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music"
    • Pages 65, 67-69: John Avison, "Music in Western Canada: British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan"
  • Pages 69, 71-73, 75, 77-83: Australia
    • Pages 69, 71-73: Malcolm Williamson, "A composer's heritage"
    • Pages 73, 75, 77-78: Donald Peart, "Some recent developments in Australian composition"
    • Pages 78-83: Frank Callaway, "Some aspects of music in Australia"
  • Pages 84-85, 87, 89: New Zealand
    • Pages 84-85, 87, 89: Peter Platt, "Challenge and reward in New Zealand"
• Page 42: [advertisement for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society]
• Page 44: [advertisement for the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain; advertisement for the Commonwealth Institute]
• Page 48: [advertisement for Apollo Sound]
• Page 49: [notice for new operas commissioned for Cheltenham]
• Page 52: [advertisements for four music journals]
• Page 54: [advertisement for Rushworth and Dreaper Ltd]
• Page 56: [advertisement for the London Opera Center; advertisement for Group 5]
• Page 62: [advertisement for Malcolm Arnold's music published by Paterson]
• Page 64: [advertisement for Hinrichsen]
• Page 66: [advertisement for Novello; advertisement for Oxford University Press]
• Page 70: [advertisement for Schott; advertisement for Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew; advertisement for Bayley & Ferguson]
• Page 74: [advertisement for Faber Music]
• Page 76: [advertisement for Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited]
• Page 86: [advertisement for Alfred Lengnick & Co. Ltd.; advertisement for a new Malcolm Arnold work by British and Continental Music Agencies Ltd.; advertisement for the Bank of New Zealand's]
• Page 88: [advertisement for Boosey & Hawkes; advertisement for William Elkin Music Services; advertisement for The Dolmetsch Foundation]
• Pages 89-90: B.S., "Report: Ravi Shankar on Indian classical music"
• Page 90: [advertisement for Barrie & Rockliff; advertisement for Herbert Jenkins]
• Page 90: "The Department of Music in the University of Liverpool"
• Page 91: J.M. Thomson, "'Composer': The why and how"
• Page 92: [advertisement for Discurio]
• Pages 93-94: Hugo Cole, "Reports"
• Page 94: Edmund Haines, "New music in Spain"
• Pages 95-96: "Music students on the Gulbenkian Report"
• Page 96: Bernard Stevens, "Adrian Cruft, 1966 Chairman"
• Page 96: New Members

No. 20 (Summer 1966)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Page 1: Adrian Cruft, "Congratulations..."
• Pages 2-4: William Walton (Sir) and Hans Keller, "Contemporary Music: Its Problems and Its Future"
• Pages 4-7: Bence Szabolcsi, "How music is transformed: The influence of time and space"
• Pages 7-10: Cynthia Jolly, "Bence Szabolcsi: a personal appreciation"
• Page 10: [advertisement for the Durham Twentieth Century Festival & Summer School]
• Pages 11-17: "Sir Arthur Bliss: 75th Birthday" [tributes]
  • Page 11: Patrick Mahony
  • Page 12: Adrian Boult (Sir)
  • Pages 12-13: J.B. Priestley
  • Pages 14-17: Ruth Gipps
  • Page 17: Frank Wibaut
• Pages 18-19, 21, 23-24: Raymond Warren, "Music in the Plays of W.B. Yeats"
• Page 20: [advertisement for Oxford University Press]
• Page 22: [Novello and Company advertisement for the music of Arthur Bliss]
• Pages 25, 27-28: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Page 26: [advertisement for HMV/EMI]
• Page 28: "From 'Prague Spring' 1966]
• Page 29: [advertisement for Apollo Sound]
• Page 30: [advertisement for J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd]
• Pages 31, 33-35, 37: Book Reviews
  • Pages 31, 33: Anthony Gilbert, Serial Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Pages 33-35: Brian Brockless, Twentieth Century Church Music by Erik Routley (published gy Herbert Jenkins)
  • Page 35: Ian Lake, Sergei Rachmaninov by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda (published by Allen and Unwin)
  • Pages 35, 37: Tim Souster, The Ring at Bayreuth and some thoughts on Operatic Production by Victor Gollancz, with an afterword by Wieland Wagner (published by Gollancz)
  • Page 37: Eric Crozier, The Opera Bedside Book, edited by Harold Rosenthal (published by Gollancz)
• Page 32: [advertisement for Secker & Warburg; advertisement for Group 5]
• Page 34: [advertisement nu Novello for Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights opera]
• Page 36: [advertisement for The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain; advertisement for The Recorder and Music Magazine; Bayley & Ferguson Ltd. advertisement for Robin Orr's Symphony in One Movement]
• Page 38: [advertisement by J. & W. Chester Ltd. for the music of John Tavener; Macmillan advertisement for Maurice Brown's Essays on Schubert; Allen and Unwin advertisement for Sergei Bertensson's and Jay Leyda's Sergei Rachmaninov]
• Page 39: Guild Notes

No. 21 (Autumn 1966)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1-3: Adrian Cruft, "A British Music Information Centre"
• Pages 3-4: James Browning, "25 years of the American Music Center"
• Pages 5-7: Eric Fenby, "Revisiting Solano Grove: Delius in Florida"
• Pages 8-11: Geoffrey Bush, "Prophet in his Own Country"
• Pages 11-12: John Gardner, "The Slopes of Parnassus"
• Pages 13-16, 22: Lothar Klein, "History in perspective: another view"
• Page 17: [advertisement for The Friends of the Composers' Guild]
• Pages 18-22: Ateṣ Orga, "Havergal Brian's 'Gothic' Symphony"
• Page 22: [advertisement by Paterson for the music of Malcolm Arnold]
• Pages 23-27, 29, 31, 33: Book Reviews
  • Pages 23, 25: Maurice J.E. Brown, Frederic Chopin, profiles of the man and the musician, edited by Alan Walker (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
  • Pages 25-26: Bill Hopkins, Debussy et l'Evolution de la Musique au XXe Siecle, edited by Edith Weber (published by Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  • Pages 26-27, 29: Jenny McLeod, Form-Space: Die Reihe 7, English edition (published by Theodor Presser Co./Universal Edition)
  • Pages 29, 31: Stephen Walsh, Contemporary Music in Europe, a comprehensive survey, edited by Paul Henry Lang and Nathan Broder (published by Dent)
  • Pages 31, 33: Hugo Cole, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, edited by Elizabeth Poston (published by Penguin Books)
• Page 28: [advertisement for the Delius Society; advertisement by British & Continental Music Agencies Ltd. for the music of Edwin Carr; advertisement for Calder and Boyars Ltd.]
• Page 30: [Novello advertisement for Bernard Herrmann's opera Wuthering Heights]
• Page 32: [advertisement for Discurio]
• Page 33: [advertisement for new journals from The Independent Electronic Music Center]
• Page 33: Electronic Courses
• Page 34: Composer of the Year 1965: Vaughan Williams Award and Special Award for Light Music [recipients: Richard Rodney Bennett and Ernest Tomlinson]
• Pages 34, 37: William Wordsworth, "Musical renaissance in Scotland"
• Page 35: [advertisement for Apollo Sound]
• Page 36: [advertisement by J. & W. Chester, Ltd. for the music of Alan Richardson; advertisement for Recorder and Music Magazine; advertisement for Sound News Productions]
• Page 37: Recordings of British Music
• Page 38: [advertisement for The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain; Boosey & Hawkes advertisement for Tempo journal; advertisement for Making Music journal]
• Pages 39-40: Guild Notes

No. 22 (Winter 1966/67)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Page 1: Adrian Cruft and Ruth Gipps, "Music and education"
• Pages 2-7: Gilmour Jenkins (Sir), "Making musicians: The Gulbenkian Report 18 Months Later"
• Pages 7-9: Alan Ridout, "Teaching Composition to Gifted Children"
• Pages 9, 11-12: Mary Chandler, "Towards a National Music Consciousness: The Lessons of Hungarian Musical Education"
• Page 10: [advertisements]
• Page 12: [advertisement]
• Pages 13, 15-16: Morton Feldman, "Boola Boola"
• Page 14: [advertisements]
• Pages 16-17: Arthur Bliss (Sir) and Hans Keller, "Four aspects of music"
• Pages 18-21: Rollo Myers, "Towards a new music?"
• Page 21: [advertisement]
• Pages 22-23: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Page 24: [advertisement]
• Pages 25-31: Book Reviews
  • Pages 25-27: Ates Orga, I am a composer, translated by Wilson O. Clough (published by Faber & Faber); and Exploring Music Ernest Krenek, translated by Margaret Shenfield and Geoffrey Skelton (published by Calder & Boyars)
  • Page 27: Bernard Rands, The Musician's World, edited by Hans Gal (published by Thames & Hudson)
  • Pages 27-28: Keith Walker, Hector Berlioz: a selection from his letters, edited and translated by Humphrey Searle (published by Gollancz)
  • Pages 28-29: J.M. Thomson, Luigi Boccherini: his life and work by Germaine de Rothschild, translated by Andreas Mayor (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Page 29: William Wordsworth, Cherubini by Basil Deane, Oxford Studies of Composers 3 (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Pages 29-30: Basil Lam, Marenzio by Denis Arnold, Oxford Studies of Composers 2 (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Pages 30-31: Ates Orga, Sibelius by Robert Layton (published by Dent)
  • Page 31: Howard Ferguson, Thoroughbass Method by Hermann Keller, translated and edited by Carl Parrish (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
• Page 26: [advertisement]
• Page 28: [advertisement]
• Page 31: [advertisement]
• Page 32: [advertisement]
• Page 33: Gordon Jacob, "Profile—Ruth Gipps: Guild Chairman 1967"
• Page 34: Guild Notes
• Page 35: [advertisement]
• Page 36: Hugo Cole, "Music in London"
• Page 36: [advertisement]
• Page 37: Anthony Hedges, "BBC centralisation—a threat to provincial music?"
• Page 38: [advertisement]
• Page 39: Anthony Hedges, "Northern branch formed?
• Page 39: Raymond Warren, "New full-time Orchestra for Ulster"
• Pages, 39, 41: John Joubert, "The provinces–a future mecca for composers?"
• Page 40: [advertisements]
• Page 41: Sidney Sager, "Fresh moves to promote British music"
• Pages 41-42: Hugo Cole, "1966 Annual General Meeting"
• Page 42: Letters to the Editor
  • Page 42: Shaun Dillon, "False nationalism"
• Pages 43-48: Index 1962—1966"

No. 23 (Spring 1967)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3: Ruth Gipps, "The New
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Pages 3, 5: Milena Galušková, "Czechoslovak Music Information Centre"
• Page 4: [advertisement]
• Pages 6-9: Ronald Duncan, "The problems of a librettist: is opera emotionally immature?"
• Page 8: [advertisement]
• Pages 10-13: Peter Dickinson, "Extreme experimenter and naive nationalist: Henry Cowell (1897-1965)"
• Pages 13-15: John Joubert, "Educating the student ear"
• Pages 16-17, 27: Justin Connolly, "The institutionalised composer: creative writing in a university"
• Pages 18-22: Ernest Tomlinson, "Light music in the modern world—I"
• Pages 22-23: Frank Cordell, "Under which stone are you hiding? Intellectual Think-Thoughts to beat the party bore"
• Page 24: [advertisements]
• Pages 25-27: Stefan de Haan [interviewer], "Performer's Platform—1: Archie Camden on bassoon"
• Page 26: [advertisement]
• Page 28: [advertisements]
• Pages 29-31, 33, 35: Book Reviews
  • Page 29: J.M. Thomson, The English Musical Renaissance by Frank Howes (published by Secker & Warburg)
  • Pages 29-30: Keith Walker, Ideas and Music by Martin Cooper (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
  • Pages 30-31, 33: Humphrey Searle, Music Ho! by Constant Lambert, with an introduction by Arthur Hutchings (published by Faber and Faber)
  • Page 33: Ian Parrott, Mozart by Stanley Sadie (published by Calder & Boyars)
  • Pages 33, 35: Brian Dennis, Das Schriftbild der neuen Musik by Erhard Karkoschka (published by Hermann Moeck Verlag Celle/Schott)
  • Pages 35-36: Francis Routh, The Organ Today by Herbert and John Norman (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
• Page 31: [advertisement]
• Page 32: [advertisements]
• Page 34: [advertisements]
• Page 36: [advertisements]
• Page 37: "A.P.H.orisms for lunch: Extracts from the speech made by SIR ALAN HERBERT as Guest of Honour at the Composers' Guild Annual Luncheon last December"
• Page 38: Notes
• Page 39: [advertisement]
• Pages 40-41: Archie Potter (Dr.), "Celtic twilight in the gogglebox"
• Page 41: [advertisements]
• Page 42: [advertisements]
• Page 43: William Wordsworth, "Events in Scotland"
• Page 43: [advertisement]
• Page 44: J. McHarg (Dr.), "Rhodesia: music under sanctions"

No. 24 (Summer 1967)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Page 1: Joseph Horovitz, "Bon Voyage!....."
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Pages 3-6: Keith MacMillan, "The Canadian Music Centre"
• Page 4: [advertisement]
• Pages 6-9: John A. Haywood, "Music in Baghdad"
• Page 10: [advertisement]
• Pages 11-14: John Gardner, "Testing Genius by Analysis"
• Pages 15-17: Christopher Whelen, "Thoughts on Television Opera"
• Pages 18-20: Richard Arnell [interviewer], "Arnold Cooke: A Birthday Conversation"
• Pages 20-21: Elizabeth Maconchy, "Who is your favourite Composer?"
• Page 22: [advertisements]
• Pages 23-26: Ernest Tomlinson, "Light Music in the Modern World—2"
• Pages 26-29: Yfrah Neaman, "Performers' Platform - 2"
• Pages 29, 31: Peter Platt, "Growing away from Aunt Edna's apron-strings"
• Page 30: [advertisement]
• Page 31: [advertisement]
• Pages 32-33, 35-38: Book Reviews
  • Pages 32-33: Bayan Northcott, Stravinsky: the composer and his works by Eric Walter White (published by Faber)
  • Page 35: Michael Head, Byrd to Britten by Sydney Northcote (published by John Baker)
  • Page 35: Eric Fenby, Scoring for Brass Band by Denis Wright (published by John Baker)
  • Pages 36-37: Bernard Stevens, Harmony and Musical Effect Book One, Part I by Paul H. Davis (published Barrie & Rockliff)
• Page 33: [advertisement]
• Page 34: [advertisement]
• Page 37: [advertisements]
• Page 38: Roger Oliver, notice for Fontes Artis Musicae
• Page 38: [advertisement]
• Pages 39-40: Notes

No. 25 (Autumn 1967)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3: Ruth Gipps, "Dressing the Window"
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Page 3: "Gordon Crosse: Composer of the Year"
• Pages 4-10: Thomas Eastwood, "Writing an Opera for Television"
• Pages 10-12: Tristram Cary, "Moving Pictures from an Exhibition"
• Page 13: [advertisements]
• Pages 14-17: Alan Fluck, "Festival of Youth"
• Pages 17-19: Alan Walker, "A Reply to John Gardnr"
• Pages 19-21: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Page 22: [advertisements]
• Pages 23-26: Ernest Tomlinson, "Light Music in the Modern World—3"
• Pages 26-29: Isabel Smith, "Performer's Platform - 3"
• Pages 29-31: Peter Tahourdin, "The Composer in Australia"
• Pages 31-34: Book Reviews
  • Page 31: Francis Cameron, The Bach Reader (revised edition), edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel (published by Dent)
  • Pages 31-33: Anthony Lewis, George Frederick Handel byPaul Henry Lang (published by Faber & Faber)
  • Pages 33-34: Anthony Hedges, Music in the 20th Century by William W. Austin (published by Dent)
• Page 32: [advertisement]
• Pages 34, 37: Notes
• Pages 35-36: [advertisements]
• Page 37: Guy Warrack, "Summer Meetings, 1967"
• Page 38: [advertisements]
• Page 39: William Wordsworth, "Report from Scotland"

No. 26 (Winter 1967/68)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3: [Hugh Bean], "Professional Fiddler-Not Speaker"
• Page 2: [advertisement]
• Pages 4-6: Francis Chagrin, "A Quarter-Century of New Music"
• Page 7: [advertisement]
• Pages 8-11: Eugene Goossens (Sir), "Don Juan De Mañara"
• Pages 11-14: George Newson, "Electronic Odyssey"
• Pages 14-16: Carey Blyton, "An Enterprising Arts Week" [reprinted from the Kent Friends of Music Bulletin No. 88]
• Pages 17-18: Hans Keller, "Ten Points on Teaching" [reprinted from the September 7, 1967 issue of The Listener]
• Pages 19-21: Letters to the Editor ("Reacting to Analysis")
  • Pages 19-20: Simon Harris
  • Pages 20-21: "Another Guru"
• Pages 21-24: Gilbert Webster, "Performer's Platform - 4" [on percussion]
• 24-26: Francis Routh, "The Redcliffe Concerts"
• Page 27: [advertisements]
• Page 28: Hugo Cole, "Opening of the Information Centre: 7 November, 1967"
• Pages 29-30: David Cohen, "Computer-generated music" [reprinted from the December 1966 Newsletter of the American Southeastern Composers' League]
• Pages 31-34: Book Reviews
  • Page 31: Ian Parrott, The Cambridge Hymnal, edited by David Holbrook and Elizabeth Poston (published by Cambridge University Press)
  • Pages 31-32: Alan Walker, Thematic Patterns in Beethoven Sonatas by Rudolph Réti (published by Faber)
  • Pages 33-34: George Rogers, The Piano Works of Claude Debussy by E. Robert Schmitz (published by Dover)
• Page 33: [advertisements]
• Pages 34, 36: Notes
• Page 35: [advertisement]
• Pages 36-39: Regional Reports
  • Pages 36-37: Bernard Barrell, Northern and East Anglia
  • Pages 37-38: Sidney Sager, South-West
  • Pages 38-39: Raymond Warren, Northern Ireland
• Page 37: [advertisements]
• Page 38: [advertisement]
• Pages 39-40: Hugo Cole, "Music in London, 1967"
• Page 39: [advertisements]

No. 27 (Spring 1968)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3: Adrian Cruft, "Profile: Eric Fenby. Guild Chairman 1968"
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Pages 4-5: Eric Fenby, "To Composers: A Call to Arms"
• Pages 6-8: Christopher Redwood, "Fennimore and Gerda"
• Pages 8-11: Hugh Davies, "Working with Stockhausen"
• Pages 11-14: Imogen Holst, "Gustav Holst's Manuscripts"
• Pages 14-17: Ian Lake, "A Dream of a Festival"
• Pages 18-21: [Alexander Faris, interviewer] and Roland Harker, "Performers' Platform-5: Electric Guitars-A Conversation"
• Page 22: [advertisement]
• Pages 23-26: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Pages 26-28: Letters
  • Pages 26-27: John Gardner, "More Thoughts on Thematic Unity"
  • Page 27: C. Phillips
• Pages 28, 30, 32-34: Book Reviews
  • Pages 28, 30: Brian Brockless, Music and the Reformation in England by Peter Le Huray (published by Herbert Jenkins0
  • Pages 30, 32: Daphne Oram, Music, Sound & Sensation by F. Winckel (published by Dover)
  • Pages 32-33: Arthur Butterworth, The Symphony, ed by Robert Simpson (published by Pelican Books)
  • Page 33: Peter Wishart, Essays on Music (an anthology from The Listener), edited by Felix Aprahamian (published by Cassell)
  • Page 34: Neil Saunders, The Penguin Book of English Madrigals for four voices, edited by Denis Stevens
• Page 29: [advertisements]
• Page 31: [advertisements]
• Page 33: [advertisements]
• Page 34: [advertisements]
• Pages 35-36: Letters
  • Page 35: Graham Whettam, "Music Binding"
  • Page 35: William R. Pasfield, "Cambridge Hymnal"
  • Pages 35-36: Alan Stripp, "The Phoenix Orchestra"
• Page 36: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Pages 37-38: [advertisements]
• Page 39: Composer Crossword No. 1

No. 28 (Summer 1968)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3: Stephen Dodgson, "I Never Read the Thing..."
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Pages 3-6: Justin Connolly, "Edward Elgar: Fantasies and Realities"
• Pages 7-9: Stephen Dodgson, "Calling the Tune"
• Pages 9-11: John Lambert, "Whiter Music, Wither?"
• Page 11: [advertisement]
• Pages 12-15: John Golland, "Writing for Brass Band"
• Pages 15-17: David Morgan, "The Disappearing Middlebrow"
• Pages 17-21: Roy Gubby, "So You Want to Make a Record in Berlin?"
• Pages 22-27: John Marson, "Performers' Platform-6: The Harp"
• Pages 27-28: Malcolm Rayment, "The McEwen Memorial Concerts in Glasgow"
• Pages 28-32, 34: Book Reviews
  • Pages 28-29: Howard Ferguson, The Breitkopf Thematic Catalogue, the six parts and sixteen supplements, 1762-1787, edited and with introduction and indexes by Barry S. Brook (published by Dover and also by Constable); A Catalogue of the Printed Music and Books on Music in Durham Cathedral Library, compiled by A. Alec Harman (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Page 29: Guy Warrack, Volume XXXII of ADAM International Review
  • Pages 29-30: Justin Connolly, Slavonic and Romantic Music by Gerald Abraham (published by Faber)
  • Pages 30-32: Geoffrey Bush, Contemporary Music: An Introduction (published by English Universities Press)
  • Pages 32, 34: Thomas Rajna, The Music of Liszt by Humphrey Searle (published by Dover); Liszt by Sacheverell Sitwell (published by Dover); Chopin: The Man and His Music by James Huneker (published by Dover) [reprints]
• Page 31: [advertisements]
• Page 33: [advertisements]
• Pages 34, 36: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Page 35: [advertisement]
• Page 36: Letters to the Editor
  • Christopher Morris
  • I.A. Copley
• Pages 36, 38-39: Regional Reports
  • Pages 36, 38: Graham Whettam, "Midlands"
  • Pages 38-39: William Wordsworth, "Scotland"
• Page 37: [advertisements]
• Page 39: Answers to Composer Crossword No. 1

No. 29 (Autumn 1968)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3: Adrian Cruft, "MIC—Progress Report"
• Page 2: [advertisement]
• Page 4: [advertisements]
• Pages 5-9: Thomas Rajna, "Stravinsky's Piano Works"
• Pages 10-12: Tristram Cary, "Florentine eggheads" [Report on the Convegno Internationale Centri Sperimentali di Musica Elettronica - Florence 1968]
• Pages 12-14: I.A. Copley, "An English Songwriter—C. W. Orr"
• Page 15: [advertisements]
• Pages 16-18: Kenneth Payne, "Catching Sight of the Music"
• Page 19: [advertisements]
• Pages 20-23: Peter Dickinson, "Charles Koechlin (1867-1951)
• Pages 23-25: Geoffrey Sentinella, "on a Shoe-string in Bethnal Green"
• Pages 25-26: Camilla Jessel, "British Music on Show at New Study Centre" [British Music Information Centre]
• Page 27: [advertisement]
• Page 28: "A British Music Centre: Weekend Course at Dartington Hall, Devon, January 17th-19th, 1969"
• Pages 28-30: Geoffrey Bush, "Heard Near Tiflis"
• Pages 30-32: Simon Harris, "The Schenkerian Principle"
• Page 33: [advertisement]
• Pages 34-38, 40: Book Reviews
  • Page 34: Joseph Horovitz, Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian 20th Century Composers Series, by Luzi Korngold (published by Osterreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna)
  • Page 34: Denys Darlow, Thomas Tomkins by Denis Stevens (published by Dover)
  • Pages 34-36: Mark Lubbock, Memoirs of Lorenzo da Ponte, translated by Elizabeth Abbott (published by Dover Books)
  • Pages 36-37: Arnold Cooke, Harmony and Style by Noel Long (published by Faber)
  • Pages 37-38: Peter Dickinson, Dialogues and a Diary by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft (published by Faber)
  • Page 38: Peter Dickinson, ADAM: A literary Quarterly in English and French, Vol. XXXII, Nos. 319-20-21.
  • Page 40: Gerald Cockshott, Twentieth Century Music by Rollo H. Myers (published by Calder and Boyars)
  • Page 40: Buxton Orr, The Bax Society Bulletin No. 2
• Page 35: [advertisement]
• Page 37: [advertisements]
• Page 39: [advertisement]
• Page 41: [advertisements]
• Pages 42, 44: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Page 43: [advertisement]
• Page 44: Letters to the Editor
  • Harold T. Scull [on brass band writing]
  • D. Marblacy Jones [on percussion scores]
• Page 44: Notice for revised subscription rates
• Pages 45-46: Ruth Gipps, "Summer Meeting: July 1968"
• Page 45: [advertisement]
• Page 46: [advertisement]
• Pages 48-48: Regional Reports
  • Pages 46-47: Graham Whettam, "Midlands"
  • Pages 47-48: Anthony Hedges, "Northern Branch"
• Page 47: [advertisement]
• Page 48: [advertisement]

No. 30 (Winter 1968/69)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3-6, 8-9: Alfred Nieman, "A Fresh Look at Webern"
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Page 7: {advertisement]
• Pages 9-12: Adrian Cruft, "Canadian Visit—I Toronto"
• Pages 13-14: Richard R. Austin, "From the Horse's Mouth"
• Pages 15-17: Edwin Roxburgh, "Cage"
• Page 17: [advertisements]
• Pages 18-21: Bernard Barrell, "It' Cold Down Here...."
• Pages 21-23: Ben Marcato, "The Hot Air Affair: A Modern Musical Parable" [reprinted from the June 1968 issue of Musical Opinion]
• Pages 23-24: Hugo Cole, "AGM 1968" [Annual General Meeting of the Composers' Guild]
• Pages 24-27: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Pages 28, 30-32: Book Reviews
  • Page 28: Gerald Cockshott, Folk Song in England by A.L. Lloyd (published by Lawrence and Wishart)
  • Pages 28-30: Francis Cameron, Johann Sebastian Bach by Karl Geiringer (published by George Allen and Unwin)
  • Pages 30-31: Ruth Gipps, The New Oxford History of Music, Vol. IV: The Age of Humanism 1540-1630, edited by Gerald Abraham (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Page 31: Howard Ferguson, The Musical Works of Frederick the Great (3 Vols.) (published by Da Capo Press)
  • Pages 31-32: J.M. Thomson, Decorative Music Title Pages from 1500 to 1800, selected, introduced, and annotated by Gottfried S. Fraenkel (published by Dover)
  • Page 32: John Lambert, The Theories of Claude Debussy by Leon Vallas (published by Dover); Debussy, Man and Artist by Oscar Thompson (published by Dover) [reprints]
• Page 29: [advertisement]
• Page 31: [advertisement]
• Pages 32, 34: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Page 33: [advertisement]
• Pages 34-35: Letters to the Editor
  • Pages 34-35: Rollo Myers
  • Page 35: S. Montague Cleeve
• Pages 35-36: Hugo Cole, "Music in London 1968"
• Pages 36-39: Regional Reports
  • Pages 36-37: Bernard Barrell, "East Anglia"
  • Page 37: Christopher Le Fleming, "South East"
  • Pages 37-38: William Wordsworth, "Scotland"
  • Pages 38-39: Raymond Warren, "Northern Ireland"
  • Page 39: Walter Swanson, "South Africa"
• Page 38: [advertisement]
• Page 39: [advertisement]

No. 31 (Spring 1969)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3-6: Christopher Palmer, "An English Nationalist" [about Patrick Hadley]
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Page 3: [advertisement]
• Pages 7-10: "A Composer Interviewed - I: John Joubert in conversation with Peter Davison" [reprinted from the Winter 1968/69 issue of ALTA]
• Pages 11-15: Adrian Cruft, "Canadian Visit—2 Montreal"
• Pages 15-17: Francis Routh, "The Creative Output of Franz Reizenstein"
• Pages 17-19: Raymond Parfrey, "Night-school Composer"
• Pages 19-21: Robert Threlfall, "Delius in Eric Fenby's MSS."
• Pages 21-24: Peter Crump, "All In One Lesson"
• Pages 24-27: Activity in Scotland
  • Pages 24-26: Malcolm Rayment, "Some Recent Events"
  • Pages 26-27: Frederick Rimmer, "Scottish Music Archive"
• Pages 28-29: Professor Ameritus, "A Child's Guide to Modern Music"
• Page 30: [advertisement]
• Page 31: Stephen Dodgson, "Recordings of British Music"
• Pages 31-32, 34, 36: Book Reviews
  • Pages 31-32: Paul Dawson-Bowling, Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters by Alma Mahler (published by John Murray)
  • Page 32: Malcolm Lipkin, The Joy of Music and The Infinite Variety of Music by Leonard Bernstein (published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
  • Pages 32, 34: Geoffrey Bush, The Composer by Michael Hurd (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Page 34: Mark Lubbock, Dictionary - Catalogue of Operas and Operettas, 2 vols. (published by Dacapo Press)
  • Page 34: Stephen Dodgson, Johannes Brahms: Complete Chamber Music for Strings, edited by Hans Gal (published by Dover)
  • Pages 34, 36: Humphrey Searle, Serial Composition and Atonality by George Perle (published by Faber)
• Page 33: [advertisement]
• Page 35: [advertisement]
• Pages 36, 39-40: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Pages 37-38: [advertisements]
• Page 39: [advertisement]
• Page 40: [advertisement]
• Pages 40-43: Letters to the Editor
  • Pages 40-41: J.M. Thomson, ["Webern in Biography"]
  • Page 41: Marion Boyars
  • Pages 41-42: Simon Harris ["Cage"]
  • Pages 42-43: Neil Saunders, ["English Madrigals"]
• Page 41: [advertisement]
• Page 42: [advertisements]
• Pages 43-44: Regional Reports
  • Page 43: Bernard Barrell, "East Anglia"
  • Pages 43-44: Christopher Le Fleming, "South-East: Two Concerts in Kent"
• Page 44: [advertisement]

No. 32 (Summer 1969)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3-5: "A Composer Interviewed - I I: John Joubert in conversation with Peter Davison" [reprinted from teh Winter 1968/69 issue of ALTA, The University of Birmingham Review]
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Pages 5-7: "Heard near Tiflis: A letter from Igor Stravinsky; A reply from Geoffrey Bush"
• Page 8: [advertisement]
• Pages 9-12: John Mayer, "Indian Music"
• Pages 13-17: Elgar Howarth, "Performers' Platform—7: Some Aspects of Trumpet Playing"
• Pages 18-22: Richard R. Austin, "Noisy Noise"
• Pages 22-27: Ates Orga, "Electronic Music in Poland"
• Page 28: Ian Parrott, "Visiting American Musician" [Claire Polin]
• Pages 29, 31-32: Book Reviews
  • Page 29: William R. Pasfield, Introduction to the Organ by Austin Niland (published by Faber)
  • Pages 29, 31: Yfrah Neaman, The History of the Violin (2 vols.) by E. van der Straeten (publisjhed by Dacapo Press)
  • Pages 31-32: Elizabeth Maconchy, The Operas of Benjamin Britten by Patricia Howard (published by Barrie & Rockliff)
• Page 30: [advertisement]
• Page 31: [advertisement]
• Pages 32-33: Letters to the Editor
  • Page 32: Alan Bush, ["John Cage"]
  • Page 33: Edwin Roxburgh
• Page 33: [advertisement]
• Page 34: [advertisement]
• Pages 34, 37: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Pages 35-36: [advertisements]
• Page 37: Death Notice for Philip Lord
• Page 38: [advertisement]
• Pages 38-39: Anthony Hedges, "Summer Meeting, 12th July 1969"
• Page 39: [advertisements]
• Pages 39-40: Bernard Barrell, "Regional Report: East Anglia"

No. 33 (Autumn 1969)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3-4: Gerald Cockshott, "Warlock and Moeran"
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Pages 4-5, 7-8: David Morgan, "To Pay or not to Pay"
• Page 6: [advertisement]
• Pages 8-12: John Alldis, "Performers' Platform — 8: Modern Choral Music"
• Pages 12-13, 15-19: Christopher Headington, "From a Yugoslav Diary"
• Page 14: [advertisements
• Pages 19-24: Michael Dawney, "New Liturgy: New Music"
• Pages 24-30: R.L.E. Foreman, "The Symphonies of Havergal Brian"
• Pages 31-35: Book Reviews
  • Page 31: Ian Lake, Dvorak – His Life and Music (published by Cassell)
  • Pages 31-33: Simon Harris, Twentieth Century Music by H.H. Stuckenschmidt (published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson)
  • Page 33: Mary Chandler, The Faber Book of Nursery Songs by Donald Mitchell and Carey Blyton (published by Faber)
  • Pages 33-34: Carol Barratt, Elgar by Michael Hurd (published by Faber and Faber)
  • Pages 34-35: David Gwilt, The Musical Wesleys by Erik Routley (published by Barrie and Rockliff)
  • Page 35: Peter Element, Leschetizky As I Knew Him by Ethel Newcomb (published by Da Capo Press)
• Page 32: [advertisement]
• Page 34: [advertisement]
• Pages 35-36: Letters to the Editor
  • Page 35: Simon Harris, ["The Integrity of John Cage"]
  • Page 36: Maurice F. Powell, ["British Branch of Spohr Society"]
• Page 36: [advertisement]
• Page 36: Awards: 1968
  • [Composer of the Year, 1968: Michael Tippett]
  • [Conductor of the Year, 1968: Charles Groves]
• Pages 36, 39: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Pages 37-38: [advertisements]
• Pages 39-40: Bernard Barrell, "Regional Reports: East Anglia"

No. 34 (Winter 1969/70)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1, 3-5: Donald Swann, "An Ambience for Survival"
• Page 2: [advertisements]
• Pages 5-9, 11: John Mayer, "Indo-Jazz Fusions"
• Page 10: [advertisement]
• Pages 11, 13-15, 17-19: Joseph Horovitz, "The Importance of Pleasants — I"
• Page [advertisement]
• Page 16: [advertisements]
• Pages 19-23: Ronald Senator, "Education and the Composer"
• Page 20: [advertisements]
• Pages 23-25: James Meredith, "Curtain-up in Queensland"
• Pages 25-31: Trevor Hold, "Blest Pair"
• Pages 31-33: Raymond Warren, "A Musician in Ulster"
• Pages 33-35: David Armstrong, "How to win Contracts and Influence Directors"
• Page 36: [advertisement]
• Pages 36-38: Book Reviews
  • Page 36: Carey Blyton, Musical Creation and the Listener by Geoffrey Bush (published by Frederick Muller Ltd.)
  • Pages 36-37: Gerald Cockshott, Francis Hopkinson and James Lyon by Oscar G. T. Sonneck, with a new introduction by Richard A. Crawford (published by Da Capo Press)
  • Page 37: Geoffrey Bush, John Ireland: Catalogue of Works (published by Boosey & Hawkes)
  • Pages 37-38: Howard Ferguson, Thomas Weelkes: A Biographical and Critical Study by David Brown (published by Faber & Faber); and Renaissance and Baroque Music by Friedrich Blume, translated by M. D. Herter Norton (published by Faber & Faber)
  • Page 38: Stephen Dodgson, The Space Between the Bars by Donald Swann (published by Hodder & Stoughton)
• Page 38: Joseph Horovitz, "Tribute to Stephen Dodgson: Editor 1957 - 61 and 1964 - 69"
• Pages 38, 41: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Pages 39-40: [advertisements]
• Page 42: Stephen Dodgson, "Barbara Fisher" [death notice/obituary]
• Page 42: [advertisement]
• Pages 42-43: Letters to the Editor
  • Page 42: Alfred Corum, ["Good Trenchermen"]
• Pages 42-43: Bernard Barrell, "Hindemith Edition" and "AGM & Luncheon 1969"
• Pages 43-44: Regional Reports
  • Page 43: Bernard Barrell, "East Anglia"
  • Page 44: William Wordsworth, "Scotland"

No. 35 (Spring 1970)

• Page 1: Table of Contents
• Pages 1-3: P. Howard Patrick, "Composer, Computer and Audience"
• Pages 3-4, 7-9, 11-12: Ates Orga, "Senior British Composers — 1: Alan Bush"
• Pages 5-6: [advertisements]
• Page 10: [advertisements]
• Pages 12-15, 17-20: George Whitman, "Diary of a Quarter-Wit"
• Page 16: [advertisements]
• Pages 20-21, 23-25: Joseph Horovitz, "The Importance of Pleasants—2"
• Page 22: [advertisements]
• Pages 25, 27-31: Trevor Hold, "Blest Pair—II"
• Page 26: [advertisements]
• Pages 32-34: Book Reviews
  • Pages 32-33: W.R. Pasfield, Beethoven – The Last Decade by Martin Cooper (published by Oxford University Press)
  • Pages 33-34: Max Harrison, Schoenberg by Anthony Payne (published by Oxford University Press
• Pages 34, 36: Notes (by Buxton Orr)
• Page 35: [advertisement]
• Pages 37-38: Letters to the Editor
  • Page 37: Heathcote Statham, ["Behind the Words"]
  • Page 37: Christopher Headington, ["Answer to Corum"]
  • Page 37: Thomas Pitfield, ["Ireland Remembered"]
  • Pages 37-38: Betty Urquhart, ["Warlock's Grave"]
• Pages 38-39: Regional Reports
  • Pages 38-39: Graham Whettam, "Midlands"
  • Page 39: Bernard Barrell, "East Anglia"