Modern Music: A Quarterly Review

Volume 3: November, 1925 – June, 1926

Number 1 (November – December, 1925)

• Page 2: Michel Larionov, A Parisian Group Drawn [drawing of Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Cocteau, and Satie]
• Pages 3-8: Emile Vuillermoz, "Honegger and His Time"
• Pages 9-15: Boris de Schloezer, "The Soviet Fosters a Provincial Art"
• Page 16: Michel Larionov, Lord Berners at the Piano, and Leonide Massine [drawing]
• Pages 17-19: Alfredo Casella, "The Festival at Venice"
• Page 20: Natalie Gontcharova, A Scene from the Ballet Les Noces by Igor Stravinsky [drawing]
• Page 21: [blank page]
• Pages 22-24: Darius Milhaud, "The Day After Tomorrow"
• Pages 25-29: Zoltan Kodaly, "New Music From Old"
• Pages 30-39: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 30-31: Albert Roussel, "The Future Orchestra"
  • Pages 31-33: Paul Stefan, "Echoes From Prague"
  • Pages 33-35: Scott Goddard, "Music Heard in England"
  • Pages 35-37: André Coeuroy, "French Gains and Losses"
  • Pages 37-39: B.H. Haggin, "Two Notable Books" [Adolf Weissmann, The Problems of Modern Music; and Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Brown, The Book of American Negro Spirituals]
• Page 40: Contributors to This Issue

Number 2 (January – February, 1926)

• Pages 3-9: Henry Prunieres, "The Departure from Opera"
• Pages 10-16: Gilbert Seldes, "Jazz Opera or Ballet?"
• Pages17-20: Ottorino Respighi, "Marionettes as Seen by an Italian"
• Pages 21-26: M.L., "Skyscrapers: An Experiment in Design: An Interview with Robert Edmond Jones"
• Pages 27-35: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 27-30: Victor Belaiev, "New Visions in the Russian Theatre"
  • Pages 30-31: Hugo Riesenfeld, "Film Music"
  • Pages 31-35: A. Walter Kramer, "For a New Repertoire at the Opera House"
• Page 36: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March – April, 1926)

• Page 2: Camille Roche, [drawing of Arthur Honegger]
• Pages 3-7: Paul Pisk, "The Tonal Era Draws to a Close"
• Pages 8-12: Daniel Lazarus, "Study of a Recent French Movement"
• Pages 13-20: Aaron Copland, "America's Young Men of Promise"
• Pages 21-26: Alfred Einstein, "Paul Hindemith"
• Pages 27-31: Adolfo Salazar, "A New Generation in Spain"
• Pages 32-40: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 32-36: Raymond Petit, "Music Written for French Films"
  • Pages 36-38: Adolph Weissmann, "Unexpected Developments in Germany"
  • Pages 38-40: Paul Stefan, "Wozzek [sic], An Atonal Opera"
• Page 41: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May – June, 1926)

• Pages 3-9: Pitts Sanborn, "The 1925 – 1926 Season"
• Pages 10-15: Edwin Evans, "Half-Time in England"
• Pages 16-20: Leon Vallas, "Young Romantics in Central Europe"
• Page 21: Caesar Kunwald, Zoltan Kodaly [a charcoal drawing]
• Pages 22-27: Erwin Stein, "Schoenberg and the German Line"
• Pages 28-35: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 28-30: Guido Gatti, "A Young Florentine" [Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco]
  • Pages 30-33: Henry Prunieres, "Honegger's Judith"
  • Pages 33-35: Victor Belaiev, "Russia's Newest Composers"
• Page 36: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 4: November, 1926 – June, 1927

Number 1 (November – December, 1926)

• Page 2: Wozzeck, Act I, Scene 2 [scene from the Berlin 1925 production of the opera]
• Pages 3-8: Boris de Schloezer, "The Operatic Paradox"
• Pages 9-14: Emerson Whithorne, "Where Do We Go from Here?"
• Pages 15-18: Raymond Petit, "Mystics in Music Today"
• Pages 19-24: Egon Wellesz, "The Return to the Stage"
• Pages 25-38: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 25-28: Henry O. Osgood, "The Blues"
  • Pages 28-31: Aaron Copland, "Playing Safe at Zurich"
  • Pages 31-33: Erwin Felber, "Step-Children of Music"
  • Pages 33-36: Roger Sessions, "An American Evening Abroad"
  • Pages 36-38: Arthur Hoeree, "Last Spring in Paris"
• Page 39: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 40: Index to Back Numbers

Number 2 (January – February, 1927)

• Pages 3-8: Henrietta Straus, "Honest Antagonism"
• Pages 9-14: Aaron Copland, "Jazz Structure and Influence"
• Pages 15-20: Marion Bauer, "Impressionists in America"
• Pages 21-23: Lazare Saminsky, "East Meets West"
• Pages 24-27: Pitts Sanborn, "A Glance Toward the Left"
• Pages 28-31: Howard Hanson, "Of Critics, Publishers and Patrons"
• Pages 32-38: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 32-33: Frederick Jacobi, "In Retrospect"
  • Pages 33-37: Alexander Fried, "'For the People'"
  • Pages 37-38: Newman Levy, "The Ballads of the Nineties"
• Page 39: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 40: Index to Back Numbers

Number 3 (March – April, 1927)

• Pages 3-7: Hugo Leichtentritt, "Musical Transmigrations"
• Pages 8-14: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Machines—A Vision of the Future"
• Page 15: [image of stage and costume design for Bartok's Tanz Suite]
• Page 16: [blank page]
• Pages 17-21: Alfredo Casella, "Russia, 1926"
• Pages 22-28: John Redfield, "A Wider Range for Chamber Music"
• Pages 29-33: Henry Cowell, "Our Inadequate Notation"
• Pages 34-38: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 34-37: Eric Blom, "Young Britons"
  • Pages 37-38: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Vladimir Dukelsky"
• Page 39: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 40: Index to Back Numbers

Number 4 (May – June, 1927)

• Pages 3-7: Frederick Jacobi, "Music and Words"
• Pages 8-14: Mario Labroca, "The Rebirth of Italian Opera"
• Pages 15-19: Leonide Sabaneyev, "To Conquer New Tonal Regions"
• Pages 20-26: Adolph Weissmann, "Germany's Latest Music Dramas"
• Pages 27-37: The Spring Season in Review
  • Pages 27-30: Roy D. Welch, "A Symphony Introduces Roger Sessions"
  • Pages 30-33: Richard Hammond, "Ballyhoo"
  • Pages 33-35: Herbert Peyser, "Now It Can Be Told"
  • Pages 35-37: Edward Burlingame Hill, "Copland's Jazz Concerto in Boston"
• Page 38: Contributors to this Issue
• Pages 40-41: Index to Back Numbers

Volume 5: November, 1927 – June, 1928

Number 1 (November – December, 1927)

• Page 2: Ralph Stackpole, Ernest Bloch [portrait]
• Pages 3-11: Roger Huntington Sessions, "Ernest Bloch"
• Pages 12-21: Hugo Leichtentritt, "Harmonic Daring in the 16th Century"
• Pages 22-24: Alban Berg, "A Word About 'Wozzeck'"
• Pages 25-30: Edwin Evans, "Arnold Bax"
• Pages 31-42: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 31-34: Aaron Copland, "Baden-Baden, 1927"
  • Pages 34-38: Adolph Weissmann, "A Festival That Failed" [International Society for Contemporary Music: fifth festival at Frankfort]
  • Pages 38-39: Lazare Saminsky, "More About 'Faustus'" [Busoni]
  • Pages 39-42: André Coeuroy, "'Oedipus' and Other Music Heard in Paris" [Stravinsky]
• Page 43: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 44: Index to Back Numbers

Number 2 (January – February, 1928)

• Pages 3-8: André Coeuroy, "Picasso and Stravinsky"
• Pages 9-18: Henry Cowell, "The Music of Edgar Varese" [sic]
• Page 19: Stefan Hirsch, Edgar Varese [portrait drawing]
• Pages 20-23: Richard Hammond, "Maurice Ravel, 1927"
• Pages 24-28: Irving Weil, "The Noise-Makers"
• Pages 29-32: Alexander Fried, "The Prestige of Good Music"
• Pages 33-38: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 33-36: Oscar Thompson, "New Music Heard Before Christmas"
  • Pages 36-38: Lazare Saminsky, "Russian Composers in Review"
• Page 39: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 40: Index to Back Numbers

Number 3 (March – April, 1928)

• Pages 3-8: Arthur Lourie, "'Neogothic and Neoclassic'"
• Pages 9-15: Roger Sessions, "On Oedipus Rex" [Stravinsky's opera]
• Pages 16-20: Aaron Copland, "Music Since 1920"
• Pages 21-25: Boris de Schloezer, "An Age of Plenty"
• Pages 26-34: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 26-28: Henrietta Straus, "The Fruits of Victory"
  • Pages 28-33: Domenico de Paoli, "Young Voices in Milan"
  • Pages 33-34: Robert Simon, review of The American Songbag by Carl Sandburg (published by Harcourt, Brace & Co.)
• Page 35: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 36: Index to Back Numbers

Number 4 (May – June, 1928)

• Pages 3-10: Hugo Leictentritt, "Schönberg [Schoenberg] and Tonality"
• Pages 11-15: Frederick Jacobi, "The New Apollo"
• Pages 16-18: Alfredo Casella, "Reflections on the European Season"
• Pages 19-20: [production design images for Hindemith's Cardillac by Leo Pasetti]
• Pages 21-27: Henry Cowell, "New Terms for New Music"
• Pages 28-31: Carlos Chavez, "Technique and Inner Form"
• Pages 32-38: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 32-34: Edward Burlingame Hill, "The Young Composers' Movement"
  • Pages 34-36: Marc Blitzstein, "Hin und Zurück in Philadelphia" [Hindemith]
  • Pages 36-38: Marion Bauer, review of Music: A Science and an Art by John Redfield (published by Alfred A. Knopf)
• Page 39: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 40: Index to Back Numbers

Volume 6: November, 1928 – June, 1929

Number 1 (November – December, 1928)

• Pages 3-10: Boris de Schloezer, "The Drift of the Century"
• Pages 11-16: Andre Schaeffner, "Georges Auric—Peasant of Paris"
• Pages 17-23: Adolph Weissmann, "Ernst Krenek"
• Page 24: [image of design for Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete by A. Bauchant]
• Pages 25-28: Richard Hammond, "Ballets Russes, 1928"
• Pages 29-34: Alfred Einstein, "The Newer Counterpoint"
• Pages 35-42: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 35-38: Alfredo Casella, "Siena's Festival"
  • Pages 38-40: Oscar Thompson, "More Fun, Less Music"
  • Pages 40-42: Hans Gutman, "Berlin and Modern Works"
• Page 43: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 44: Index to Back Numbers

Number 2 (January – February, 1929)

• Page 2: [Portrait of Prokofiev by Natalia Gontcharova]
• Pages 3-9: Leonid Sabaneyeff, "Russia's Strong Man" [Prokofiev]
• Pages 10-13: G. Francesco Malipiero, "A Plea for True Comedy"
• Pages 14-19: Aaron Copland, "The Lyricism of Milhaud"
• Pages 20-25: Robert Simon, "Jerome Kern"
• Pages 26-29: Carol Berard, "Recorded Noises - Tomorrow's Instrumentation"
• Pages 30-42: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 30-32: Arthur Mendel, "First Fruits of the Season"
  • Pages 32-35: Herbert Peyser, "Jonny Over There" [Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf]
  • Pages 35-39: Henry Prunières, "Stravinsky and Ravel, Winter, 1928"
  • Pages 39-42: Domenico de Paoli, "Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo"
• Page 43: Contributors to this Issue
• Page 44: Index to Back Numbers

Number 3 (March – April, 1929)

• Page 2: [design for Stravinsky's Les Noces, second tableau, by Sergei Soudeikine]
• Pages 3-11: Hugo Leichtentritt, "On the Art of Bela Bartok"
• Pages 12-18: Henry Cowell, "Music of the Hemispheres"
• Pages 19-25: Richard Hammond, "Viewing Les Noces in 1929"
• Pages 26-29: Lazare Saminsky, "Race and Revolution"
• Pages 30-36: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 30-32: Leonid Sabaneyeff, "Dawn in Sweden"
  • Pages 32-36: Pitts Sanborn, "Making the Grand Tour"
• Page 37: Contributors to this Issue
• Pages 38-39: Index to Back Numbers

Number 4 (May – June, 1929)

• Pages 3-9: Irving Weil, "The American Scene Changes"
• Pages 10-14: Aloys Mooser, "Geneva—Another Disappointment"
• Pages 15-19: Aaron Copland, "From a Composer's Notebook"
• Pages 20-24: Oscar Thompson, "Heard in New York"
• Pages 25-33: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 25-28: Nikolai Lopatnikoff, "New Life in Berlin"
  • Pages 28-31: Marion Bauer, "Discovering the Dynamic Line"
  • Pages 31-33: Henry Cowell, "Hidden Irish Treasure"
• Pages 34-35: Index to Back Numbers
• Page 36: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 7: December, 1929 – July, 1930

Number 1 (December, 1929 – January, 1930)

• Page 2: [image of a design by Johannes Schröder for Schoenberg's opera Die Glückliche Hand]
• Pages 3-11: Arthur Lourie, "An Inquiry Into Melody"
• Pages 12-23: "Farewell to Diaghilev"
  • Pages 12-15: Darius Milhaud, "I. The Brilliant Impresario"
  • Pages 15-19: Andre Schaeffner, "II. Though Far From Russia"
  • Pages 19-23: Nicholas Roerich, "III. A Lone Fighter"
• Pages 24-28: Paul Stefan, "Schönberg's Operas"
• Pages 29-33: Jefrey Mark, "An Exact Notation"
• Pages 34-44: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 34-37: Hans Gutman, "Tabloid Hindemith" [on Hindemith's opera Neues vom Tage]
  • Pages 37-39: Lazare Saminsky, "Jürg Jenatch" [Heinrich Kaminski' opera]
  • Pages 39-42: Oscar Thompson, "Fly-Wheel Opera" [Max's Brand's Maschinist Hopkins]
  • Pages 42-44: Mary Ellis Opdyke, "De Falla in Review"
• Page 45: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (February, 1930 – March, 1930)

• Page 2: Robert Edmond Jones, The Creature of Destiny [design for the chimera in Schoenberg's opera Die Glückliche Hand]
• Pages 3-10: Hans Gutman, "Young Germany , 1930"
• Pages 11-14: Darius Milhaud, "Experimenting With Sound Films"
• Pages 15-19: Hermann Closson, "The Case Against 'Gebrauchmusik'"
• Pages 20-23: Richard Hammond, "Music and the Dance Theatre"
• Pages 24-27: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Composers of New England"
• Pages 28-41: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 28-31: Oscar Thompson, "Variations and the Season's New Music"
  • Pages 31-34: André Schaeffner, "Stravinsky's 'Capriccio'"
  • Pages 34-38: Henry Cowell, "Vocal Innovators of Central Europe"
  • Pages 38-41: Eberhard Preussner, "Germany's New Music Literature"
• Page 42: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (April, 1930 – May, 1930)

• Page 2: Giorgio di Chirico, Dècor for Krenek's Opera Orest [image]
• Pages 3-17: Boris de Schloezer, "The Way of Understanding" [taken from the introductory section of the author's book La Domaine Musicale]
• Pages 18-21: Paul Amadeus Pisk, "Schönberg's Twelve-Tone Opera" [Von Heute auf Morgen]
• Pages 22-24: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Hellenic Jazz" [on Krenek's Leben des Orest]
• Page 25: Giorgio di Chirico, Two Designs for Krenek's Opera Orest [images]
• Pages 26-31, Edwin Evans, "Walton and Lambert"
• Pages 32-36: Dane Rudhyar, "The Mystic's Living Tone"
• Pages 37-45: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 37-41: Raymond Petit, "A Critical Portrait of Stravinsky"
  • Pages 41-43: Willi Reich, "Berg's New Work, Der Wein"
  • Pages 43-45: Marion Bauer, "New Musical Resources" [on Henry Cowell]
• Page 46: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (June, 1930 – July, 1930)

• Page 2: Oskar Kokoschka, Arnold Schönberg [painting]
• Pages 3-10: Erwin Stein, "Schönberg's New Structural Form"
• Pages 11-16: George Antheil, "Wanted–Opera By and For Americans"
• Pages 17-24, Paul Stefan, "Music in Post-Empire Austria"
• Pages 25-31: Charles Louis Seeger, "On Dissonant Counterpoint"
• Pages 32-41: The German Opera Season Reviewed
  • Pages 32-36: Hans Gutman, "Mahagonny and Other Novelties"
  • Pages 36-38: Nikolai Lopatnikoff, "Christophe Colombe" [Milhaud]
  • Pages 38-41: Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, "Transatlantic"
• Page 42: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 8: November, 1930 – June, 1931

Number 1 (November, 1930 – December, 1930)

• Pages 3-9: A. Walter Kramer, "American Composers. III: Louis Gruenberg"
• Pages 10-20: Frederick Jacobi, "Liege, 1930"
• Pages 21-26: Domenico de Paoli, "Italy's New Music of the Theatre"
• Pages 27-32: Hans Gutman, "The Festivals as Music Barometers"
• Pages 33-44: Forecast and Review
  • Pages 33-35: Irving Weil, "Mr. Kleiber Presents–"
  • Pages 35-37: Alfred V. Frankenstein, "Hindemith and Bach at Chicago"
  • Pages 37-40: Lazare Saminsky, "St. Francis by Faggi and by Malipiero"
  • Pages 40-41: Alexander Smallens, "Musica Americana in a Handy Manual" [American Composers of To-Day by The International Society for Contemporary Music]
  • Pages 41-44: Aaron Copland, "Modern Orchestration Surveyed" [review of Egon Wellesz, Die Neue Instrumentation]
• Page 45: Contributors to this issue
• Pages 46-47: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music
• Page 48: Coming Features of Modern Music

Special Supplement to Vol. 8, No. 1)

• Pages 1-24: Joseph Yasser, "The Future of Tonality: Tonality and Atonality as Synthesized By Supra-Tonality"

Number 2 (January, 1931 – February, 1931)

• Page 2: Robert Edmond Jones, "Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex': A Preliminary Sketch" [image]
• Pages 3-