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== Volume 3: November, 1925 – June, 1926 ==
== Volume 3: November 1925 – June 1926 ==
=== Number 1 (November – December, 1925) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1925 – December 1925) ===
*Page 2: Michel Larionov, ''A Parisian Group Drawn'' [drawing of Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Cocteau, and Satie]
*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 3-8: Emile Vuillermoz, "Honegger and His Time"
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*Page 40: Contributors to This Issue
*Page 40: Contributors to This Issue


=== Number 2 (January – February, 1926) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1926 – February 1926) ===
*Pages 3-9: Henry Prunieres, "The Departure from Opera"  
*Pages 3-9: Henry Prunieres, "The Departure from Opera"  
*Pages 10-16: Gilbert Seldes, "Jazz Opera or Ballet?"
*Pages 10-16: Gilbert Seldes, "Jazz Opera or Ballet?"
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*Page 36: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 36: Contributors to this Issue


=== Number 3 (March – April, 1926) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1926 – April 1926) ===
*Page 2: Camille Roche, [drawing of Arthur Honegger]
*Page 2: Camille Roche, [drawing of Arthur Honegger]
*Pages 3-7: Paul Pisk, "The Tonal Era Draws to a Close"
*Pages 3-7: Paul Pisk, "The Tonal Era Draws to a Close"
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*Page 41: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 41: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 4 (May – June, 1926) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1926 – June 1926) ===
*Pages 3-9: Pitts Sanborn, "The 1925 – 1926 Season"
*Pages 3-9: Pitts Sanborn, "The 1925 – 1926 Season"
*Pages 10-15: Edwin Evans, "Half-Time in England"
*Pages 10-15: Edwin Evans, "Half-Time in England"
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*Page 36: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 36: Contributors to this Issue


== Volume 4: November, 1926 – June, 1927 ==
== Volume 4: November 1926 – June 1927 ==
=== Number 1 (November – December, 1926) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1926 – December 1926) ===
*Page 2: ''Wozzeck, Act I, Scene 2'' [scene from the Berlin 1925 production of the opera]
*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 3-8: Boris de Schloezer, "The Operatic Paradox"
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*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers  
*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers  


=== Number 2 (January – February, 1927) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1927 – February 1927) ===
*Pages 3-8: Henrietta Straus, "Honest Antagonism"
*Pages 3-8: Henrietta Straus, "Honest Antagonism"
*Pages 9-14: Aaron Copland, "Jazz Structure and Influence"
*Pages 9-14: Aaron Copland, "Jazz Structure and Influence"
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*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers  
*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers  


=== Number 3 (March – April, 1927) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1927 – April 1927) ===
*Pages 3-7: Hugo Leichtentritt, "Musical Transmigrations"
*Pages 3-7: Hugo Leichtentritt, "Musical Transmigrations"
*Pages 8-14: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Machines—A Vision of the Future"
*Pages 8-14: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Machines—A Vision of the Future"
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*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers
*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers


=== Number 4 (May – June, 1927) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1927 – June 1927) ===
*Pages 3-7: Frederick Jacobi, "Music and Words"
*Pages 3-7: Frederick Jacobi, "Music and Words"
*Pages 8-14: Mario Labroca, "The Rebirth of Italian Opera"
*Pages 8-14: Mario Labroca, "The Rebirth of Italian Opera"
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*Pages 40-41: Index to Back Numbers
*Pages 40-41: Index to Back Numbers


== Volume 5: November, 1927 – June, 1928 ==
== Volume 5: November 1927 – June 1928 ==
=== Number 1 (November – December, 1927) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1927 – December 1927) ===
*Page 2: Ralph Stackpole, ''Ernest Bloch'' [portrait]
*Page 2: Ralph Stackpole, ''Ernest Bloch'' [portrait]
*Pages 3-11: Roger Huntington Sessions, "Ernest Bloch"
*Pages 3-11: Roger Huntington Sessions, "Ernest Bloch"
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*Page 44: Index to Back Numbers  
*Page 44: Index to Back Numbers  


=== Number 2 (January – February, 1928) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1928 – February 1928) ===
*Pages 3-8: André Coeuroy, "Picasso and Stravinsky"
*Pages 3-8: André Coeuroy, "Picasso and Stravinsky"
*Pages 9-18: Henry Cowell, "The Music of Edgar Varese" [sic]
*Pages 9-18: Henry Cowell, "The Music of Edgar Varese" [sic]
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*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers
*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers


=== Number 3 (March – April, 1928) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1928 – April 1928) ===
*Pages 3-8: Arthur Lourie, "'Neogothic and Neoclassic'"
*Pages 3-8: Arthur Lourie, "'Neogothic and Neoclassic'"
*Pages 9-15: Roger Sessions, "On Oedipus Rex" [Stravinsky's opera]
*Pages 9-15: Roger Sessions, "On Oedipus Rex" [Stravinsky's opera]
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*Page 36: Index to Back Numbers  
*Page 36: Index to Back Numbers  


=== Number 4 (May – June, 1928) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1928 – June 1928) ===
*Pages 3-10: Hugo Leictentritt, "Schönberg [Schoenberg] and Tonality"
*Pages 3-10: Hugo Leictentritt, "Schönberg [Schoenberg] and Tonality"
*Pages 11-15: Frederick Jacobi, "The New Apollo"
*Pages 11-15: Frederick Jacobi, "The New Apollo"
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*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers  
*Page 40: Index to Back Numbers  


== Volume 6: November, 1928 – June, 1929 ==
== Volume 6: November 1928 – June 1929 ==
=== Number 1 (November – December, 1928) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1928 – December 1928) ===
*Pages 3-10: Boris de Schloezer, "The Drift of the Century"
*Pages 3-10: Boris de Schloezer, "The Drift of the Century"
*Pages 11-16: Andre Schaeffner, "Georges Auric—Peasant of Paris"
*Pages 11-16: Andre Schaeffner, "Georges Auric—Peasant of Paris"
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*Page 44: Index to Back Numbers
*Page 44: Index to Back Numbers


=== Number 2 (January – February, 1929) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1929 – February 1929) ===
*Page 2: [Portrait of Prokofiev by Natalia Gontcharova]
*Page 2: [Portrait of Prokofiev by Natalia Gontcharova]
*Pages 3-9: Leonid Sabaneyeff, "Russia's Strong Man" [Prokofiev]
*Pages 3-9: Leonid Sabaneyeff, "Russia's Strong Man" [Prokofiev]
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*Page 44: Index to Back Numbers
*Page 44: Index to Back Numbers


=== Number 3 (March – April, 1929) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1929 – April 1929) ===
*Page 2: [design for Stravinsky's ''Les Noces'', second tableau, by Sergei Soudeikine]
*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 3-11: Hugo Leichtentritt, "On the Art of Bela Bartok"
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*Pages 38-39: Index to Back Numbers  
*Pages 38-39: Index to Back Numbers  


=== Number 4 (May – June, 1929) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1929 – June 1929) ===
*Pages 3-9: Irving Weil, "The American Scene Changes"
*Pages 3-9: Irving Weil, "The American Scene Changes"
*Pages 10-14: Aloys Mooser, "Geneva—Another Disappointment"
*Pages 10-14: Aloys Mooser, "Geneva—Another Disappointment"
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*Page 36: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 36: Contributors to this Issue


== Volume 7: December, 1929 – July, 1930 ==
== Volume 7: December 1929 – July 1930 ==
=== Number 1 (December, 1929 – January, 1930) ===
=== Number 1 (December 1929 – January 1930) ===
*Page 2: [image of a design by Johannes Schröder for Schoenberg's opera ''Die Glückliche Hand'']
*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 3-11: Arthur Lourie, "An Inquiry Into Melody"
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*Page 45: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 45: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 2 (February, 1930 – March, 1930) ===
=== 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'']
*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 3-10: Hans Gutman, "Young Germany , 1930"
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*Page 42: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 42: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 3 (April, 1930 – May, 1930) ===
=== Number 3 (April 1930 – May 1930) ===
*Page 2: Giorgio di Chirico, Dècor for Krenek's Opera ''Orest'' [image]
*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 3-17: Boris de Schloezer, "The Way of Understanding" [taken from the introductory section of the author's book ''La Domaine Musicale'']
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*Page 46: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 46: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 4 (June, 1930 – July, 1930) ===
=== Number 4 (June 1930 – July 1930) ===
*Page 2: Oskar Kokoschka, ''Arnold Schönberg'' [painting]
*Page 2: Oskar Kokoschka, ''Arnold Schönberg'' [painting]
*Pages 3-10: Erwin Stein, "Schönberg's New Structural Form"
*Pages 3-10: Erwin Stein, "Schönberg's New Structural Form"
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*Page 42: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 42: Contributors to this Issue


== Volume 8: November, 1930 – June, 1931 ==
== Volume 8: November 1930 – June 1931 ==
=== Number 1 (November, 1930 – December, 1930) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1930 – December 1930) ===
*Pages 3-9: A. Walter Kramer, "American Composers. III: Louis Gruenberg"
*Pages 3-9: A. Walter Kramer, "American Composers. III: Louis Gruenberg"
*Pages 10-20: Frederick Jacobi, "Liege, 1930"
*Pages 10-20: Frederick Jacobi, "Liege, 1930"
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*Pages 1-24: Joseph Yasser, "The Future of Tonality: Tonality and Atonality as Synthesized By Supra-Tonality"
*Pages 1-24: Joseph Yasser, "The Future of Tonality: Tonality and Atonality as Synthesized By Supra-Tonality"


=== Number 2 (January, 1931 – February, 1931) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1931 – February 1931) ===
*Page 2: Robert Edmond Jones, "Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex': A Preliminary Sketch" [image]
*Page 2: Robert Edmond Jones, "Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex': A Preliminary Sketch" [image]
*Pages 3-8: Paul Rosenfeld, "The Destiny of Exile"
*Pages 3-8: Paul Rosenfeld, "The Destiny of Exile"
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*Page 48: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 48: Contributors to this Issue


=== Number 3 (March, 1931 – April, 1931) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1931 – April 1931) ===
*Page 2: Lee Simonson, "Figure from ''The Age of Steel''" [Prokofiev]
*Page 2: Lee Simonson, "Figure from ''The Age of Steel''" [Prokofiev]
*Pages 3-9: Boris de Schloezer, "Man, Music and the Machine"
*Pages 3-9: Boris de Schloezer, "Man, Music and the Machine"
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*Page 48: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 48: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 4 (May, 1931 – June, 1931) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1931 – June 1931) ===
*Pages 3-11: Arthur Lourie, "The Crisis in Form"
*Pages 3-11: Arthur Lourie, "The Crisis in Form"
*Pages 12-16: Alfred Schlee, "Expressionism in the Dance"
*Pages 12-16: Alfred Schlee, "Expressionism in the Dance"
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*Page 48: Notes on Contributors
*Page 48: Notes on Contributors


== Volume 9: November, 1931 – June, 1932 ==
== Volume 9: November 1931 – June 1932 ==
=== Number 1 (November, 1931 – December, 1931) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1931 – December 1931) ===
*Pages 3-7: Hans Heinsheimer, "Youth Leaves the Vanguard"
*Pages 3-7: Hans Heinsheimer, "Youth Leaves the Vanguard"
*Pages 8-16: John Tasker Howard, "American Composers VI: John Alden Carpenter"
*Pages 8-16: John Tasker Howard, "American Composers VI: John Alden Carpenter"
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*Pages 47-48: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''
*Pages 47-48: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''


=== Number 2 (January, 1932 – February, 1932) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1932 – February 1932) ===
*Pages 51-61: Arthur Hoeree, "The Renaissance of Choral Music"
*Pages 51-61: Arthur Hoeree, "The Renaissance of Choral Music"
*Pages 63-66: Willi Reich, "Schönberg's New Männerchor"
*Pages 63-66: Willi Reich, "Schönberg's New Männerchor"
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*Pages 95-96: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''
*Pages 95-96: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''


=== Number 3 (March, 1932 – April, 1932) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1932 – April 1932) ===
*Pages 98,147: 114: Diego Rivera, Costume Designs for a ballet by Carlos Chavez [images]
*Pages 98,147: 114: Diego Rivera, Costume Designs for a ballet by Carlos Chavez [images]
*Pages 99-107: Adolph Weiss, "The Lyceum of Schönberg"
*Pages 99-107: Adolph Weiss, "The Lyceum of Schönberg"
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*Page 140: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 140: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 4 (May, 1932 – June, 1932) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1932 – June 1932) ===
*Pages 143-147: Aaron Copland, "The Composer and His Critic"
*Pages 143-147: Aaron Copland, "The Composer and His Critic"
*Pages 148-152: Robert Russell Bennett, "Orchestrating for Broadway"
*Pages 148-152: Robert Russell Bennett, "Orchestrating for Broadway"
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== Modern Music Monographs No.2: Dr. Willi Reich, ''Wozzeck: A Guide to the Words and Music of the Opera'' (25 Pages) ==
== Modern Music Monographs No.2: Dr. Willi Reich, ''Wozzeck: A Guide to the Words and Music of the Opera'' (25 Pages) ==


== Volume 10: November, 1932 – June, 1933 ==
== Volume 10: November 1932 – June 1933 ==
=== Number 1 (November, 1932 – December, 1932) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1932 – December 1932) ===
*Page 2: Jo Mielziner, Sketch for Louis Gruenberg's opera ''The Emperor Jones'' [image]
*Page 2: Jo Mielziner, Sketch for Louis Gruenberg's opera ''The Emperor Jones'' [image]
*Pages 3-9: Gilbert Seldes, "An Open Letter to Roxy"
*Pages 3-9: Gilbert Seldes, "An Open Letter to Roxy"
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*Page 60: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 60: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 2 (January, 1933 – February, 1933) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1933 – February 1933) ===
*Pages 63-78: Roger Sessions, "Music in Crisis: Some Notes on Recent Musical History"
*Pages 63-78: Roger Sessions, "Music in Crisis: Some Notes on Recent Musical History"
*Pages 79-86: Eugen Braudo, "The Russian Panorama"
*Pages 79-86: Eugen Braudo, "The Russian Panorama"
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*Page 120: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 120: Contributors to this Issue


=== Number 3 (March, 1933 – April, 1933) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1933 – April 1933) ===
*Page 2: Robert Edmond Jones, Preliminary Sketch of ''Pierrot Lunaire'' [image]
*Page 2: Robert Edmond Jones, Preliminary Sketch of ''Pierrot Lunaire'' [image]
*Pages 123-129: Eric Blom, "The Twentieth Century Slump"
*Pages 123-129: Eric Blom, "The Twentieth Century Slump"
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**Page 172: Contributors to this Issue
**Page 172: Contributors to this Issue


=== Number 4 (May, 1933 – June, 1933) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1933 – June 1933) ===
*Pages 175-181: Serge Tchemodanoff, "An Economic Approach to Music"
*Pages 175-181: Serge Tchemodanoff, "An Economic Approach to Music"
*Pages 182-187: Mark Brunswick, "American Composers, X: Roger Huntington Sessions"
*Pages 182-187: Mark Brunswick, "American Composers, X: Roger Huntington Sessions"
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*Page 228: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 228: Contributors to this Issue


== Volume 11: November, 1933 – June, 1934 ==
== Volume 11: November 1933 – June 1934 ==
=== Number 1 (November, 1933 – December, 1933) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1933 – December 1933) ===
*Pages 3-12: Roger Sessions, "Music and Nationalism: Some Notes on Dr. Göbbel's Letter to Furtwängler"
*Pages 3-12: Roger Sessions, "Music and Nationalism: Some Notes on Dr. Göbbel's Letter to Furtwängler"
*Pages 13-17: Virgil Thomson, "Most Melodious Tears"
*Pages 13-17: Virgil Thomson, "Most Melodious Tears"
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*Pages 54-56: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''
*Pages 54-56: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''


=== Number 2 (January, 1934 – February, 1934) ===
=== Number 2 (January 1934 – February 1934) ===
*Page 58: Pablo Picasso, Décor for De Falla's ''El Sombrero'' [image]
*Page 58: Pablo Picasso, Décor for De Falla's ''El Sombrero'' [image]
*Pages 59-64: Aaron Copland, "One Hundred and Fourteen Songs" [on Charles Ives's songs]
*Pages 59-64: Aaron Copland, "One Hundred and Fourteen Songs" [on Charles Ives's songs]
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*Page 112: Contributors to this Issue  
*Page 112: Contributors to this Issue  


=== Number 3 (March, 1934 – April, 1934) ===
=== Number 3 (March 1934 – April 1934) ===
*Pages 115-120: Roger Sessions, "New Vistas in Musical Education"
*Pages 115-120: Roger Sessions, "New Vistas in Musical Education"
*Pages 121-127: Charles Seeger, "On Proletarian Music"
*Pages 121-127: Charles Seeger, "On Proletarian Music"
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*Page 160: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 160: Contributors to this Issue


=== Number 4 (May, 1934 – June, 1934) ===
=== Number 4 (May 1934 – June 1934) ===
*Pages 167-187: Arnold Schönberg (translated by Adolph Weiss), "Problems of Harmony" [this article was first presented as a lecture at the Berlin Akademie der Künste]
*Pages 167-187: Arnold Schönberg (translated by Adolph Weiss), "Problems of Harmony" [this article was first presented as a lecture at the Berlin Akademie der Künste]
*Page 188: Drawing of Arnold Schoenberg by [Alfred Joseph] Frueh [image]
*Page 188: Drawing of Arnold Schoenberg by [Alfred Joseph] Frueh [image]
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*Page 224: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 224: Contributors to this Issue


== Volume 12: November, 1934 – June, 1935 ==
== Volume 12: November 1934 – June 1935 ==
=== Number 1 (November, 1934 – December, 1934) ===
=== Number 1 (November 1934 – December 1934) ===
*Page 2: Pablo Picasso, Drawing of Stravinsky [image]
*Page 2: Pablo Picasso, Drawing of Stravinsky [image]
*Pages 3-7: Andr
*Pages 3-7: André Schaeffner, "On Stravinsky, Early and Late"
*Pages 8-11: Paul Bekker, "Dream at Twilight"
*Page 12: Portrait of Paul Hindemith by Richard Heinisch [image]
*Pages 13-17: Roger Sessions, "Hindemith's ''Mathis der Mahler''"
*Page 18: Nicolas Remisoff, Design for Aaron Copland's Ballet ''Hear Ye! Hear Ye!'' [image]
*Pages 19-22: Alfredo Casella, "Modern Music in Modern Italy"
*Pages 23-30: Dmitri Shostakovitch [Shostakovich], "My Opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk"
*Pages 31-38: David Josef Bach, "New Music by Berg, Webern, Krenek"
*Pages 39-48: Forecast and Review
**Pages 39-41: Luis Sandi, "Music in Mexico, 1934"
**Pages 41-43: Alfred V. Frankenstein, "Festival at Pittsfield"
**Pages 43-44: Frederick Jacobi, "Nabokoff's Oratorio, Job"
**Pages 44-47: Hans Gutman, "Literature, Music and the Ballet in Paris"
**Pages 47-48: Arthur Mendel, "Orchestral Version of [Roy] Harris' Chorale"'
*Page 49: Contributors to this Issue
*Pages 50-52: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''


=== Number 2 (January 1935 – February 1935) ===
*Page 54: Serge Soudeikine, Decor for Stravinsky's Ballet ''Mavra''
*Pages 55-61: Alfred Einstein, "Art and Technology"
*Pages 62-68: George Antheil, "Composers in Movieland"
*Pages 69-72: Nicolas Slonimsky,"Lazare Saminsky"
*Pages 73-78: Frederick Jacobi, "Reflections on Ariadne and Mavra" [Richard Strauss]
*Pages 79-81: Richard Gilbert, "Discs as a Medium for New Music"
*Pages 82-85: Alfred Schlee, "Dancers in Germany Today"
*Pages 86-96: Forecast and Review
**Pages 86-89: Cecil Michener Smith, "Copland's ''Hear Ye, Hear Ye!''; Ibert's Ballet"
**Pages 89-90: Lazare Saminsky, "New Malipiero, New Harris and Weil[l]" [Malipiero's Symphony; Harris's ''Song for Occupations''; Weill's ''Night Scenes'']
**Pages 90-92: Israel Citkowitz, "Choral Music, New York, January 1935"
**Pages 92-94: Herbert Elwell, "Whithorne's Symphony; Josten's Serenade"
**Pages 94-96: Aaron Copland, "Scherchen on Conducting and Ewen on Composers" [reviews of Herman Scherchen, ''Handbook of Conducting''; and David Ewen, ''Composers of Today'']
*Page 97: Contributors to this Issue
*Pages 98-100: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''
=== Number 3 (March 1935 – April 1935) ===
*Page 102: Franz Rederer, Portrait of Alban Berg created February 1935 [image]
*Pages 103-111: Willi Reich, "Lulu — The Text and Music"
*Pages 112-115: Frederick Jacobi, "On Hearing Stravinsky's ''Perséphone''
*Pages 116-122: Arthur Farwell, "Pioneering for American Music"
*Pages 123-126: Virgil Thomson, "Socialism at the Metropolitan"
*Page: 127: Decor by Caspar Neher for the Dresden premiere of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny's opera ''Der Günstling''" [images]
*Pages 128-134: Marc Blitzstein, "Theatre-Music in Paris"
*Pages 135-148: Forecast and Review
**Pages 135-138: Randall Thompson, "Jacobi's Quartet and Sessions' Sonata" [Jacobi's String Quartet No. 2 and Sessions' first Piano Sonata]
**Pages 138-141: Lehman Engel, "Les Ballets Américains"
**Pages 141-143: Israel Citkowitz, "Symphonic Music, New York"
**Pages 143-146: Arthur V. Berger, "Boston Hears American Works"
**Page 146: L.E., "Dance Note"
**Pages 146-148: Pitts Sanborn, "Music Ho! A Brilliant Survey" [review of ''Music Ho!'' by Constant Lambert]
*Page 149: Contributors to this Issue
*Pages 150-152: Index to Back Numbers of ''Modern Music''
=== Number 4 (May 1935 – June 1935) ===
*Pages 155-162: Alfred Einstein, "Music as Wish Fulfillment"
*Pages 163-169: Colin McPhee, "The 'Absolute' Music of Bali"
*Pages 170-178: Roger Sessions, "Heinrich Schenker's Contribution"
*Page 179: Frederick Kiesler, Design for Act II of ''Malibran'' by Robert Russell Bennet [image]
*Pages 180-186: Hans Eisler, "Reflections on the Future of the Composer"
*Pages 187-207: Forecast and Review
**Pages 187-192: Israel Citkowitz, "Symphonic and Chamber Music, New York"
**Pages 192-194: Paul Bowles, "[Virgil] Thomson's Mass and Other Choral Works"
**Pages 194-196: Marion Bauer, "Native Opera—Metropolitan and Juilliard"
**Pages 196-200: Cecil Michener Smith, "Spring Festival, Washington, 1935"
**Pages 200-201: C.E., "Americans in Chicago"
**Pages 201-203: Adelaide V. Hooker, "Tenth Rochester Celebration"
**Pages 203-204: Lehman Engel, "Dancers, Foreign and Home-Grown"
**Pages 205-207: Richard Gilbert, "A 'Premiere' by Disc; More Modern Records"
**Page 207: L.E., "Shostakovich 'Accompanies' a Film" [''The Youth of Maxim''
*Page 208: Contributors to this Issue
== Volume 13: November 1935 – June 1936 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1935 – December 1935) ===
*Pages 3-12: Alfred Einstein, "The Composer, the State and Today"
*Pages 13-19: Virgil Thomson, "George Gershwin"
*Pages 20-25: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Russia Revisited"
*Pages 26-31: Edward Burlingame Hill, "Charles Martin Loeffler"
*Pages 32-37: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Opera in Germany Today"
*Pages 38-44: Louis Gruenberg, "Modern Youth at Prague, 1935"
*Pages 45-58: Forecast and Review
**Pages 45-47: Israel Citkowitz, "Schönberg's Suite for String Orchestra"
**Pages 47-50: Marc Blitzstein, "Composers as Lecturers and in Concerts"
**Pages 50-51: Eva Goldbeck, "A Thomson Soiree"
**Pages 51-53: Frederick Jacobi, "Stravinsky Begins His Chronicles" [review of Volume 1 of ''Chroniques de ma Vie'']
**Pages 53-55: Lehman Engel, "Dancers in New York, Autumn, 1935"
**Page 56: L.E., "Manifestoes of the Modern Dance" [brief review of Virginia Stewart, ed., ''Modern Dance'']
**Pages 56-58: Roger Sessions, "For the Layman" [review of Olga Samaroff, ''The Layman's Music Book'', published by Norton]
*Page 59: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1936 – February 1936) ===
*Pages 3-11: Israel Citkowitz, "American Composers, XII: Walter Piston ― Classicist"
*Pages 12-14: Lazare Saminsky, "The Composer and the Critic"
*Pages 15-18: Ernst Toch, "Sound-Film and Music Theatre"
*Pages 19-24: Grigori Schneerson, "The Changing Course of Russian Music"
*Pages 25-28: Eva Goldbeck, "On Books About Music"
*Pages 29-33: Adelaide F. Hooker, "Japanese Riddle ― East By West"
*Pages 34-47: Forecast and Review
**Pages 34-40: Marc Blitzstein, "New York Medley, Winter, 1935"
**Pages 40-41: Lazare Saminsky, "The Work of Roger Sessions"
**Pages 41-43: David Diamond, "Premiere in Rochester: [Bernard] Rogers' Frescoes"
**Pages 43-45: Lehman Engel, "Dancers, European and American"
**Pages 45-47: Aaron Copland, "Active Market in New Music Records"
*Page 48: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1936 – April 1936) ===
*Pages 3-13: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Vocal Style in the 20th Century"
*Pages 14-21: Edwin Denby, "A Good Libretto"
*Pages 22-28; Howard Hanson, "American Procession at Rochester"
*Pages 29-34: Moses Smith, "Alban Berg ― Finale: A Requiem"
*Pages 35-40: Carlos Chavez, "Revolt in Mexico"
*Pages 41-59: Forecast and Review
**Pages 41-46: Colin McPhee, "New York ― January, February, 1936"
**Pages 46-49: Guido Gatti, "The Noblest Roman of Them All" [Gian Francesco Malipiero]
**Pages 49-50: Frederick Jacobi, "Rubin Goldmark: A Tribute"
**Pages 50-53: Lehman Engel, "New Laboratories and Gebrauchmusik"
**Pages 53-55: Arthur V. Berger, "Rosenfeld's 'Experience and Criticism'"[review of Paul Rosenfeld, ''Discoveries of a Music Critic'', published by Harcourt Brace]
*Pages 55-58: Arthur W. Locke, "Festival at Hartford"
*Pages 58-59: L.E., "New Winter Dances"
*Page: 60: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1936 – June 1936) ===
*Page 2: Natalia Gontcharova, Decors for Stravinsky's ''Les Noces''
*Pages 3-11: Aaron Copland, "Our Younger Generation: Ten Years Later"
*Pages 12-17: Virgil Thomson, "Swing Music"
*Pages 18-22: Otto Luening, "Musical Finds in the Southwest"
*Pages 23-29: Marc Blitzstein, "Coming ― The Mass Audience!"
*Pages 30-34: Carleton Sprague Smith, "The I.S.C.M. Meets ar Barcelona"
*Pages 35-58: Forecast and Review
**Pages 35-39: André Schaeffner, "Stravinsky' Two-Piano Concerto and Other Parisian Novelties"
**Pages 39-42: Colin McPhee, "New York's Spring Season, 1936"
**Pages 43-44: Israel Citkowitz, "Biblical Texts Set to Music"
**Pages 44-46: Edwin Denby, "Revival of Diaghilev's Noces"
**Pages 46-47: E.D., "Thomson Scores for a New Deal Film" [''The Plow That Broke the Plains'']
**Pages 48-49: Herbert Elwell, "Premieres in Cleveland"
**Pages 49-52: Goddard Lieberson, "Rochester's Sixth Festival"
**Pages 52-53: Cecil Michener Smith, "Modern Works in Chicago"
**Pages 53-56: George Antheil, "Good Russian Advice About Movie Music" [review of Leonid Sabaneyeff, ''Music for the Films'', published by the Pitman Publishing Corporation]
**Pages 56-57: E.D., "'Compiling' the Dance" [review of Lincoln Kirstein, ''Dance'', published by G.P. Putnam]
**Pages 57-58: Virgil Thomson, "The Official Stravinsky" [review of Stravinsky, ''Chroniques de ma Vie'' Volume II, published by Denoël et Steel]
*Page 59: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 60: Table of Contents: Volume XIII, Numbers 1-3
== Volume 14: November 1936 – June 1937 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1936 – December 1936) ===
*Pages 3-11: Alfred Einstein, "National and Universal Music"
*Pages 12-17: Davidson Taylor, "To Order, For Radio"
*Pages 18-23: Roy D. Welch, "The College, the Composer, and Music"
*Pages 24-27: Felix Roderic Labunski, "A New Generation in Poland"
*Pages 28-38: Forecast and Review
**Pages 28-31: Colin McPhee, "New York, Autumn of 1936"
**Pages 31-33: David Diamond, "Paradise Lost and the Fourteenth of July" [includes a review of Igor Markevitch's oratorio ''Le Paradis Perdu'']
**Pages 33-36: Isadore Freed, "Forum Portraits: Saminsky, Josten, Finney"
**Pages 36-37: Robert Sabin, "Recording Premieres at Rochester" [including George F. McKay's ''Sinfonietta No. 2'', Erik Leidzen's ''Fugue with Chorale'', David Diamond's ''Psalm for Orchestra'', and Victor Alessandro's and Robert McBride's ''Rhapsody on Mexican Themes'']
**Pages 37-38: Marion Bauer, "More Pessimism by Cecil Gray" [review of ''Predicaments or Music and the Future'' by Cecil Gray, published by Oxford University Press]
**Page 38: Marion Bauer, "Composite Stravinsky" [brief review of Merle Armitage, ed., ''Stravinsky'', published by Schirmer]
*Pages 39-42: Scores and Records (reviewed by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 42-46: In the Theatre
**Pages 42-44: Frederick Jacobi, "WPA Shows with Music"
**Pages 44-46: Marc Blitzstein, "Weill Scores for ''Johnny Johnson''"
*Pages 46-49: On the Hollywood Front (reviews by George Antheil)
*Pages 49-53: With the Dancers (reviews by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 53-54: Over the Air (remarks by Cecil Michener Smith)
*Page 55: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 56: Table of Contents, Volume 13, Nos. 1-4
=== Number 2 (January 1937 – February 1937) ===
*Page 58: Richard Heinisch, Portrait of Paul Hindemith [image]
*Pages 59-66: Roger Sessions, "The New Musical Horizon"
*Pages 67-75: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Hindemith Today"
*Pages 76-81: Irma Goebel Labastille, "Americanismo Musical"
*Pages 82-86: George Antheil, "Breaking Into the Movies"
*Pages 87-97: Forecast and Review
**Pages 87-89: Colin McPhee, "Winter Season, New York, 1936"
**Pages 90-92: Elliott Carter, "The New York Season - (Continued), 1937"
**Pages 92-93: Goddard Lieberson, "More One-Man Shows"
**Pages 93-95: Gerald Strang, "Moderns on the Pacific Coast"
**Pages 95-96: Richard Sabin, "Works by Jacobi, Diamond, McBride" [Jacobi's ''Concerto for Piano and Orchestra'', Diamond's ''Psalm for Orchestra'', and McBride's ''Mexican Rhapsody'' etc.]
**Pages 96-97: Cecil Michener Smith, "Chicago Novelties"
*Pages 98-101: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 101-105: In the Theatre (reviews by Virgil Thomson of Erika Mann's  ''The Pepper-Mill'', Kurt Weill's music for ''The Eternal Road'', and Paul Bowles's music for ''Dr. Faustus'']
*Pages 105-108: On the Hollywood Front (reviews by George Antheil)
*Pages 108-112: With the Dancers (reviews by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 113-114: Over the Air (remarks by Cecil Michener Smith)
*Page 115: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 116: Table of Contents, Volume 13, Nos. 1-4/Volume 14, No. 1
=== Number 3 (March 1937 – April 1937) ===
*Pages 119-123: Alfred Einstein, "Will Modern Music Endure?"
*Pages 124-131: David Diamond, "American Composers, XIII: Frederick Jacobi"
*Pages 132-135: Willi Reich, "Swiss Panorama"
*Pages 136-142: Hans Nathan, "The Viennese Lied, 1910-1937"
*Pages 143-146: Lincoln Kirstein, "Working With Stravinsky"
*Pages 147-166: Forecast and Review
**Pages 147-154: Elliott Carter, "Late Winter, New York, 1937"
**Pages 154-157: Goddard Lieberson, "Concerts Free and Paid For"
**Pages 157-158: Arthur V. Berger, "Boston Hears a New Russian Work" [Yuri Shaporin's Symphony in C Minor]
**Pages 159-161: Ray Brown, "Saminsky's Pueblo and Other News  from Washington" [Saminsky's ''Pueblo: A Moon Epic'']
**Pages 161-162: Cecil Michener Smith, "New Music in Chicago"
**Pages 162-164: Jerzy Fitelberg, "Parisian Novelties"
**Pages 164-166: Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Chavez  on Music and Electricity" [review of Carlos Chavez, ''Toward a New Music'', published by Norton]
*Pages 167-170: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 170-173: In the Theatre (Virgil Thomson on Robert Simon's and Albert Stoessel's ''Garrick'', and remarks on Juilliard operas)
*Pages 173-176: With the Dancers
**Pages 173-175: Edwin Denby on Dollar and Balanchine's ''Classic Ballet''
**Pages 175-176: Elliott Carter on Catherine Littlefield's production of Tchaikovsky's ''Sleeping Beauty''
*Pages 176-178: Over the Air (reviews by Goddard Lieberson)
*Page 179: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 180: Table of Contents: Volume 13, Nos. 1-4/Volume 14, Nos. 1-2
=== Number 4 (May 1937 – June 1937) ===
*Pages 183-188: Kurt Weill, "The Future of Opera in America"
*Pages 189-192: Edwin Gerschefski, "To the Brass Band"
*Pages 193-197: Mark Brunswick, "Suicide in Vienna"
*Pages 198-199: Frederick Jacobi, "Homage to Arthur Foote"
*Pages 200-203: Ernst Krenek, "The New Music and Today's Theatre"
*Pages 204-207: Nicolai Lopatnikoff, "England's Young Composers"
*Pages 208-228: Forecast and Review
**Pages 208-215: Cecil Michener Smith, "Hindemith and the Coolidge Festival"
**Pages 215-217: Elliott Carter, "Season's End in New York"
**Pages 217-220: Goddard Lieberson, "Spring Fancies, 1937"
**Pages 221-223: Frederick Yeiser, "Whithorne's Symphony; Dett's Moses" [Emerson Whithorne's Second Symphony, and Nathaniel Dett's ''The Ordering of Moses''
**Pages 223-224: Gerald Strang, "Schönberg, Mahler, and Others in Los Angeles"
**Pages 224-225: Cecil Michener Smith, 'What Chicago Needs"
**Pages 225-228: Robert Sabin, "American Festival at Rochester, 1937"
*Page 229: Scene Sketches for Marc Blitzstein's opera ''The Cradle Will Rock'' [images]
*Pages 230-233: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 233-237: In the Theatre (reviews by Virgil Thomson)
*Pages 237-239: With the Dancers (reviews and remarks by Elliott Carter
*Pages 239-240: Films Seen in New York (reviews by Virgil Thomson)
*Pages 241-242: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
*Page 243: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 244: Tables of Contents for Vol. 13, Nos. 1-4 and Vol. 14, Nos. 1-3 
== Volume 15: November 1937 – June 1938 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1937 – December 1937) ===
*Page 2: George Gershwin as Seen By Alfred Frueh [drawings]
*Pages 3-7: Frederick Jacobi, "The Future of Gershwin"
*Pages 8-12: Kurt List, "Lulu, After the Premiere"
*Pages 13-16: Goddard Lieberson, "Britannia Rules the Air"
*Pages 17-23: Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Electicity Becomes Music: Introducing The 'Emino'"
*Pages 24-26: Raymond Petit, "Roussel—Ave, Vale"
*Pages 27-44: Forecast and Review
**Pages 27-32: Lazare Saminsky, "Europe Takes Fresh Bearings"
**Pages 32-36: Mark Brunswick, "Paris, 1937—The I.S.C.M."
**Pages 36-37: Elliott Carter, "Opening Notes, New York"
**Pages 37-40: Alma Goudy, "Coolidge Fiesta in Mexico"
**Pages 40-44: Alfred Einstein, "Internationalism à la Venice and Florence"
*Pages 45-48: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland) [here with some interesting remarks on Mahler, Sibelius, and others]
*Pages 48-51: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
*Pages 51-53: In the Theatre (reviews by Elliott Carter) [reviews of Milhaud's ''Le Pauvre Matelot'', Ibert's ''Angélique'', Samuel Barlow's music for ''Amphitryon 38'' etc.]
*Pages 53-55: Over the Air (reviews by Goddard Lieberson)
*Pages 55-56: With the Dancers (remarks by Elliott Carter)
*Pages 57-67: Recent Books
**Pages 57-63: Roger Sessions, "Hindemith on Theory" [review of ''Unterweisung im Tonsatz'' by Paul Hindemith, published by B. Schott's Söhne]
**Pages 63-65: Marion Bauer, "Hither and Yon in the 20th Century" [review of ''Twentieth Century Composers'' by David Ewen, published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company]
**Pages 65-67: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Memorial to Berg" [review of ''Alban Berg'' by Willi Reich et al., published by Herbert Reichner Verlag]
*Page 68: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1938 – February 1938) ===
*Page 70: Clarence A. Brodeur, pen-and-ink sketch of Nadia Boulanger [image]
*Pages 71-75: Carlos Chavez, "The Function of the Concert"
*Pages 76-80: Herbert Elwell, "Nadia Boulanger: A Tribute"
*Pages 81-85: Marc Blitzstein, "On Writing Music for the Theatre"
*Pages 86-91: Davidson Taylor, "Why Not Try the Air?"
*Pages 92-95: Temporary Executive Board of the American Composers' Alliance, "The Composers Organize: A Proclamation"
*Pages 96-108: Forecast and Review
**Page 96: Elliott Carter, "Homage to Ravel"
**Pages 96-103: E.C., "Vacation Novelties, New York"
**Pages 103-106: Leonard Bernstein, "Season of Premieres in Boston"
**Pages 106-108: [Unsigned], "New Works for the Mid-West"
*Pages 109-111: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 112-114: In the Theatre (remarks by Virgil Thomson) [a response to Alfred Einstein and notes on Marc Blitzstein's ''The Cradle Will Rock'']
*Pages 115-117: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
*Pages 117-118: On the Hollywood Front (brief reviews by George Antheil)
*Pages 118-122: With the Dancers (report by Elliott Carter)
*Pages 123-131: Recent Books
**Pages 123-128: Roger Sessions, "Exposition by Krenek" [review of ''Ṻber Neue Musik'' by Ernst Krenek, published by Verlag der Ringbuchhandling]
**Pages 128-130: William Schuman, "A Novel One-Volume Encyclopedia" [review of ''Music Since 1900'' by Nicolas Slonimsky, published by Norton]
**Pages 130-131: Herbert Weinstock, "Neither Fish, Flesh Nor Fowl" [review of ''La Musica Contemporanea'' by Herbert Fleischer, published by Ulrico Hoepli)
*Page 132: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1938 – April 1938) ===
*Pages 135-139: Alfred Einstein, "Cycle of Three Centuries"
*Pages 140-144: Charles C. Cushing, "Maurice Ravel: 1875-1937"
*Pages 145-152: Roger Sessions, "To Revitalize Opera"
*Pages 153-159: Paul Rosenfeld, "The Newest American Composers"
*Pages 160-166: Virgil Thomson, "Swing Again"
*Pages 167-178: Forecast and Review
**Pages 167-171: Elliott Carter, "Orchestras and Audiences; Winter, 1938"
**Pages 171-174: Lazare Saminsky, "Electric Marvels in Pittsburgh" [new electronic instruments]
**Pages 174-176: Grigori Schneerson, "Shostakovich Rehabilitated" [on the January premiere of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony in Moscow]
**Pages 176-178: Cecil Michener Smith, "Composers Of and In Chicago"
*Pages 179-182: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 183-184: In the Theatre (review of Paul Bowles's opera ''Denmark Vesey'' by Virgil Thomson)
*Pages 184-187: With the Dancers (Edwin Denby, "Balanchine Again' Debut of the Caravan")
*Pages 187-189: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
*Pages 189-191: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
*Pages 192-199: Recent Books
**Pages 192-197: Roger Sessions, "Escape by Theory" [review of ''Der Freie Satz: Das Erste Lehrbuch der Musik'' by Heinrich Schenker, published by Universal Edition]
**Pages 197-198: Edward Burlingame Hill, "Composers in America" [review of ''Composers in America: Bibliographical Sketches of Living Composers With a Record of Their Works'' by Claire Reis, published by The Macmillan Company]
**Page 199: Elliott Carter, "Musical Reactions—Bold and Otherwise" [brief review of ''Of Men and Music'' by Deems Taylor, published by Simon and Schuster]
*Page 200: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1938 – June 1938) ===
*Page 202: Roman Clemens, Decors for Paul Hindemith's ''Mathis der Maler'' [images]
*Pages 203-208: "Vienna – Vale, Ave: A Letter from Roger Sessions"
*Pages 209-215: Raymond Hall, "The Macbeth of Bloch"
*Pages 216-221: John A. Gutman, "Casting the Film Composer"
*Pages 222-227: William Schuman, "Unconventional Case History"
*Pages 228-243: Forecast and Review
**Pages 228-233: Elliott Carter, "Season's End, New York, Spring, 1938"
**Pages 233-235: Kurt List, "Political Art—Notes on Krenek's ''Karl V''"
**Pages 235-238: Arthur Cohn, "How News Comes to Philadelphia"
**Pages 238-239: Pauline Konstantin, "Third Service for the Temple"
**Pages 239-241: Leonard Bernstein, "Boston Carries On"
**Pages 241-243: Elliott Carter, "Recent Festival in Rochester"
*Pages 244-248: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 248-251: Theatre and Dance (Edwin Denby, "World's Fair and Other Shows)
*Pages 251-254: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
*Pages 255-256: Over the Air (remarks and reviews by Goddard Lieberson)
*Pages 257-263: Recent Books
**Pages 257-262: Roger Sessions, "The Function of Theory" [discussion of three volumes: Paul Hindemith, ''Unterweisung im Tonsatz''; Ernst Krenek, ''Ueber die Neue Musik''; and Heinrich Schenker, ''Der Freie Satz'']
**Pages 262-263: Ernest Lubin, "Tovey's Analysis" [review of ''Essays in Musical Analysis Volume 5'' by Donald Tovey, published by Oxford University Press]
*Page 264: Contributors to this Issue
== Volume 16: November 1938 – June 1939 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1938 – December 1938) ===
*Page 2: Jan Tichacek, Set Design for Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre production of Georg Büchner's drama ''Danton's Tod'' [image]
*Pages 3-9: Mark Brunswick, "After Munich"
*Page 10: Kathryn Nason, portrait of Edward Burlingame Hill [image]
*Pages 11-16: George Henry Lovett Smith, "American Composers, XIV: Edward Burlingame Hill"
*Pages 17-22: Virgil Thomson, "French Landscape With Figures"
*Pages 23-27: Ernst Krenek, "The Transplanted Composer"
*Pages 28-32: Hans Heinsheimer, "Challenge of the New Audience"
*Pages 33-49: Forecast and Review
**Pages 33-38: Elliott Carter, "Coolidge Crusade; WPA; New York Season"
**Pages 38-41: Arno Huth, "Forbidden Opus—Protestant" [on Hindemith's ''Mathis der Mahler'']
**Pages 41-44: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Forbidden Opus—Catholic" [on Krenek operatic music]
**Pages 44-49: Pitts Sanborn, "Strauss in Munich; Blum in Paris"
*Pages 50-54: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 54-58: In the Theatre (remarks by John Gutman) [discusses theater music by Weill, Engel, and Blitzstein]
*Pages 58-61: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 62-65: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
*Pages 65-69: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
*Pages 70-71: Recent Books
**Pages 70-71: Marion Bauer, "The Last Hundred Years" [review of Gerald Abraham, ''A Hundred Years of Music'', published by Alfred Knopf]
*Page 72: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1939 – February 1939) ===
*Pages 75-81: Adolfo Salazar, "America, North and South"
*Pages 82-85: Henry Pleasants, "First-Time Fever" [on premieres and subsequent performances of new works]
*Page 86: Mahonri Young, Portrait of Arthur Shepherd [image]
*Pages 87-93: Denoe Leedy, "American Composers XV: Arthur Shepherd"
*Pages 94-98: Davidson Taylor, "Long Range Policy for Radio"
*Pages 99-121: Forecast and Review
**Pages 99-103: Elliott Carter, "Once Again Swing; Also 'American Music'" [bemoans critical ignorance about new music, and the lack of performances of it]
**Pages 104-109: Virgil Thomson, "More From Paris"
**Pages 109-112: Paul Rosenfeld, "Ives' Concord Sonata"
**Pages 112-114: Arno Huth, "Triumph of Reaction, Belgium, 1938"
**Pages 114-116: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Boston News"
**Pages 116-119: Arthur Cohn, "Americans in the Fleisher Collection"
**Pages 119-121: Joan Pack, "Youth Movement"
**Page 121: Q------N, "Czech Twilight"
*Pages 122-125: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 125-128: In the Theatre (remarks by John Gutman) [treats among other things Milhaud's ''Christophe Colomb'' and Cole Porter's music for ''Leave It to Me'']
*Pages 128-130: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [discusses La Argentinita, George Balanchine's choreography for ''The Boys from Syracuse'', etc.]
*Pages 130-133: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil) [praises Adolphe Borchard's music for ''The Story of a Cheat'', etc.]
*Pages 133-134: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
*Pages 135-139: Recent Books
**Pages 135-137: William Schuman, "Layman's Guide and Student Opera" [review of ''What To Listen For in Music'' by Aaron Copland; and ''The Second Hurricane'' by Aaron Copland, score published by C.C. Birchard and Co.]
**Pages 137-139: Roger Sessions, "A Lesson From Mozart" [review of ''Mozart: the Man and his Works'' by W.J. Turner, published by Alfred Knopf]
*Page 140: Notes on Contributors
=== Number 3 (March 1939 – April 1939) ===
*Page 142: Robert Edmond Jones, Preliminary Sketch for Douglas Moore's and Stephen Vincent Benet's ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'' [image]
*Pages 143-149: Charles Louis Seeger, "Grass Roots for American Composers"
*Pages 150-155: Alfred Einstein, "Universality and Music Today"
*Pages 156-159: Stefan Wolpe, "Music, Old and New, in Palestine"
*Pages 160-167: Colin McPhee, "The Decline of the East"
*Pages 168-171: Ceicao de Barros-Barreto, "Brazil Mirrors its Own Nature"
*Pages 172-184: Forecast and Review
**Pages 172-179: Elliott Carter, "The Case of Mr. Ives" and "Further Notes on the Winter Season"
**Pages 180-182: Paul Rosenfeld, "Lukas Foss - A New Talent"
**Pages 182-184: Leonard Bernstein, "The Latest From Boston"
*Pages 185-188: New Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
*Pages 188-190: In the Theatre (reviews by John Gutman) [includes material on Gilbert & Sullivan's ''The Mikado'', Noel Coward's ''Set to Music'', etc.]
*Pages 190-194: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 194-196: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
*Pages 197-199: Recent Books
**Pages 197-199: George Herzog, "Music Cyclopedias–New Style" [review of the ''Oxford Companion to Music'' by Percy A. Scholes, published by Oxford University Press; and ''The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians'' edited by Oscar Thompson, published by Dodd, Mead and Company]
*Page 200: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1939 – June 1939) ===
*Page 202: Decors for ''Railroads on Parade'', set to music by Kurt Weill [images]
*Pages 203-213: Fugitivus [pseudonym of a German critic], "Inside Germany" [a description of musical life inside Nazi Germany]
*Pages 214-219: Paul Rosenfeld, "Variation on the Grass Roots Theme" [a response to Charles Louis Seeger's piece in the previous issue]
*Pages 220-224: Humphrey Searle, "Growing Pains in England"
*Pages 225-228: Minna Lederman, "Fan Mail for Mr. [Grover] Whalen"
*Pages 229-237: Virgil Thomson, "More and More from Paris"
*Pages 238-263: Forecast and Review
**Pages 238-243: Elliott Carter, "O Fair World of Music!" [argues that there is much worth hearing outside of the standard repertoire, and discusses recent performance examples]
**Pages 243-249: Emilia Elsner, "Troubled Warsaw is Host to the Nations"
**Pages 249-254: E.C., "Season of Hindemith and Americans" [Hindemith performances, Roy Harris's Third Symphony, etc.]
***Page 254: Colin McPhee, "Further Seasonal Note" [on a choir festival directed by Lazare Saminsky at Temple Emanuel]
**Pages 254-256: John N. Burk, "Bloch Revisits Boston"
**Pages 256-259: Cecil Michener Smith, "Chicago Moves Forward" [on the 1938-1939 season and its "most varied experience in contemporary music of past years"]
***Page 259: René Devries, "Jacobi's Concerto" [Frederick Jacobi's Violin Concerto]
**Pages 259-261: Henry Pleasants, "New Music for Philadelphia" [review of Nicolai Berezowsky's ''Toccata, Variations and Finale'' etc.]
**Pages 261-263: Moses Smith, "Bowdoin College Series" [remarks on performances of Copland's ''Piano Variations'', Robert McBride's ''Hot-Shot Divertimento'', and the premiere of Walter Piston's ''Sonata for Violin and Piano'']
*Pages 264-267: Scores and Records (reviews by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 268-271: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [particularly positive remarks on the Broadway musical ''Mexicana'']
*Pages 271-275: Over the Air (remarks by David Diamond) [includes substantial material on Gian-Carlo Menotti's ''The Old Maid and the Thief'']
*Pages 276-278: In the Theatre (remarks by John Gutman)
*Pages 278-280: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil) [includes material on Prokofiev's music for ''Alexander Nevsky'', Georges Auric's music for ''The Love of Paris'', and mention of Stokowski beginning work on what would become Disney's ''Fantasia'']
*Pages 281-287: Recent Books
**Pages 281-285: Paul Bowles, "Anatomy of Jazz" [review of ''Jazz, Hot and Hybrid'' by Winthrop Sargeant, published by Arrow Editions; and ''American Jazz Music'' by Wilder Hobson, published by Norton]
**Pages 285-287: Kurt List, "The Social Approach" [review of ''Music and Society'' by Elie Siegmeister, published by the Critic's Group Press]
*Page 288: Contributors to this Issue
== Volume 17: October 1939 – June 1940 ==
=== Number 1 (October 1939 – November 1939) ===
*Page 2: Henri Matisse, "Head of Dancer" Sketch [image]
*Pages 3-9: Alfred Einstein, "War, Nationalism, Tolerance"
*Pages 10-17: Burle Marx, "Brazilian Portrait—Villa-Lobos"
*Pages 18-24: Paul Rosenfeld, "Folksong and Culture-Politics"
*Pages 25-28: Arthur Mendel, "The Quintet of Roy Harris"
*Pages 29-33: Isadore Freed, "The Teacher Needs the Composer"
*Pages 34-51: Forecast and Review
**Pages 34-38: Elliott Carter, "The New Season Opens"
**Pages 38-40: Humphrey Searle, "News From Britain"
**Pages 40-41: Arno Huth, "Letter from France"
**Pages 41-43: Arno Huth, "Switzerland Carries On"
**Pages 43-45: George Henry Lovett Smith, "American Festival in Boston"
**Pages 45-46: Paul Bowles, "Negro and Non-Negro Music"
**Pages 47-48: Frederick Jacobi Jr., "Harvard Soirée"
**Pages 48-49: Henry Pleasants, "Philadelphia Greets Thompson" [review of performance of Randall Thompson's Second Symphony]
**Pages 49-51: George Herzog, "Musicology Steps Out" [report on the International Congress of the American Musicological Society]
*Pages 52-54: Scores and Records (reviews by Colin McPhee) [recordings of music by Chavez, Griffes, Ives, Ravel, and others; scores by Bloch, Harries, Sowerby etc.]
*Page 55: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
*Pages 56-60: With the Dances (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 60-62: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [on film scores by Honegger for ''Harvest'', Copland for ''The City'', etc.]
*Pages 63-66: New Books
**Pages 63-65: Aaron Copland, "Thomson's Musical Taste" [review of ''The State Of Music'' by Virgil Thomson]
**Pages 65-66: Ray Brown, "Saminsky Revises Music of Our Day" [review of ''Music of Our Day'' by Lazare Saminsky, published by Thomas Y. Crowell]
*Page 67: Invitation to Readers [to submit correspondence that will be included in future issues]
*Page 68: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1940 – February 1940) ===
*Pages 71-75: Roger Sessions, "On the American Future" [letter]
*Pages 76-80: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Caturla of Cuba" [Alejandro García Caturla]
*Pages 81-83: Frederick Jacobi, "Bloch's Violin Concerto"
*Pages 84-86: Henry Pleasants, "New Note on a Familiar Theme" [discusses the balance between orchestras programming old and new repertoire]
*Pages 87-92: Carlos Chavez, "Music for the Radio"
*Pages 93-109: Forecast and Review
**Pages 93-101: Elliott Carter, "American Music in the New York Scene" [contains remarks on Roy Harris's Third Symphony, and various works by Roger Sessions, Walter Piston, and Edward Burlingame Hill, etc.]
**Pages 101-103: Guido M. Gatti, "A Strenuous Italian Season"
**Pages 103-104: Paul Bowles, "From Spirituals to Swing"
**Pages 104-106: Herbert Elwell, "Cleveland First-Times" [remarks on the world premiere of William Walton's Violin Concerto, etc.]
**Pages 106-108: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Boston Looks West" [significant remarks on Nicolai Lopatnikoff's Second Symphony, Bloch's Violin Concerto, etc.]
**Pages 108-109: Humphrey Searle, "British Pickp-Up"
*Pages 110-113: Scores and Records (reviews by Colin McPhee) [Hindemith, Bax, Shostakovich, etc.]
*Pages 113-115: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [discusses film scores by Toch, Kabalevsky, and others]
*Pages 115-116: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
*Pages 116-120: With the Dancers (remarks by David Diamond) [discusses ballet music by Copland, Ray Green, Paul Nordoff, Henry Brant, etc.]
*Pages 121-125: New Books
**Pages 121-123: Marion Bauer, "Krenek on Music Here and Now" [review of ''Music Here and Now'' by Ernst Krenek and translated by Barthold Fles, published by Norton)
**Pages 123-125: Paul Rosenfeld, "An Idea for a Biography" [reviews of ''Men and Music'' by Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock, published by Simon and Schuster; and ''How Music Grew'', revised edition, by Marion Bauer and Ethel Peyser, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons]
*Page 126: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1940 – April 1940) ===
*Page 130: Baccio M. Bacci, Decors for a Contemporary Opera: ''Volo di Notte'' by Luigi Dallapiccola [image]
*Pages 131-140: Henry Pleasants and Tibor Serly, "Bartok's Historic Contribution"
*Pages 141-147: Aaron Copland, "Second Thoughts on Hollywood"
*Pages 148-153: Ernst Krenek, "Teaching Composition"
*Pages 154-159: Paul Bowles, "Calypso – Music of the Antilles"
*Pages 160-163: Paul Nettl, "Czechs at Home and Far Away"
*Pages 164-178: Forecast and Review
**Pages 164-170: Elliott Carter, "Stravinsky and Other Moderns in 1940"
**Pages 171-173: Cecil Michener Smith, "Contemporary Music, Chicago Style"
**Pages 173-174: Ray Brown, "Villa-Lobos in Washington"
**Pages 174-175: Henry Pleasants, "Philadelphia Premiere of Bartok Work" [''Deux Images'', and Edward Burlingame Hill's ''Sinfonietta for String Orchestra'']
**Pages 175-176: Humphrey Searle, "More About Music in Britain"
**Pages 176-178: Arno Huth, "Swiss War-Season"
*Pages 179-181: Records and Scores (reviews by Colin McPhee) [treats Hindemith's Four-Hand Piano Sonata, McBride pops, Leuning's Suite for Soprano and Flute, Chavez's Ten Preludes for Piano, etc.]
*Pages 181-184: Theatre Music (reviews by Marc Blitzstein) [some shows covered: ''Too Many Girls'', ''Pins and Needles'', ''Night Music'', ''Reunion in New York'', etc.]
*Pages 184-187: On the Film Front (reviews of film music by Paul Bowles) [treats scores by Luis Gruenberg and Alfred Newman, etc.]
*Pages 187-191: With the Dancers (remarks by Peter Lindamood)
*Pages 191-193: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
*Pages 194-199: Recent Books
**Pages 194-196: Minna Lederman, "Star-Spangled Orchestras" [review of ''America's Symphony Orchestras'' by Margaret Grant and Herman S. Hettinger, published by Norton]
**Pages 196-197: Marc Blitzstein, "Pierrot Lunaire in Lindy's" [review of ''A Smattering of Ignorance'' by Oscar Levant, published by Doubleday Doran in 1940]
**Pages 197-199: William Schuman, "Taylor-Made Topics" [review of ''The Well-Tempered Listener'' by Deems Taylor, published by Simon & Schuster]
*Page 200: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1940 – June 1940) ===
*Page 202: Sketch of Carlos Chavez by Miguel Covarrubias [image]
*Pages 203-209: Virgil Thomson, "Paris, April 1940" [letter]
*Pages 210-213: Ross Lee Finney, "Piston's Violin Sonata"
*Pages 214-220: Donald Duff, "Flamenco"
*Pages 221-225: Frederick Jacobi, "In Defense of Modernism"
*Pages 226-232: Paul Rosenfeld, "'Americanism' in American Music"
*Pages 233-236: Marion Bauer, "Stefan Wolpe"
*Pages 237-259: Forecast and Review
**Pages 237-241: Elliott Carter, "The Changing Scene, New York 1940"
**Pages 241-245: Harrison Kerr, "More on the Spring Season"
**Pages 245-246: Colin McPhee, "South America Once More"
**Pages 246-250: Arno Huth, "Dance of Death in Basle" [premiere of Honegger's ''La Danse des Morts'' etc.]
**Pages 250-254: Charles Seeger, "New Works at the Coolidge Festival" [Malipiero's ''Quattro vecchi canzoni;'' Pizzetti's ''Epithalamium''; Fitelberg's ''Sonata for Two Violins and Two Pianos''; Harris's Viola Quintet; and Berezowsky's ''Sextet for Three Violins, Two Violas and Violincello'']
**Pages 254-255: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Boston Premieres" [American premieres of Hindemith's Viola Concerto and Prokofiev's Cello Concerto etc.]
**Pages 255-258: Arthur Cohn, "Americans at Rochester" [music by Bernard Rogers, Kent Kennan, Frederick Jacobi, Roy Harris, etc.]
**Pages 258-259: Humphrey Searle, "Music, Dance, Theatre in England"
*Pages 260-263: Records and Scores (reviews by Colin McPhee) [Hanson's ''Romantic'' Symphony, Piston's ''The Incredible Flutist'', Ravel, Sibelius, etc.]
*Pages 263-265: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
**Pages 263-264: "Swing, Jazz, Boogie-Woogie"
**Page 265: "Back to the 'Long-Hairs'"
*Pages 265-267: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [brief treatment of Waxman's score for ''Rebecca'', Janssen's score for ''Lights Out in Europe'', Milhaud's score for ''The Mayor's Dilemma'', and Kosma's music for ''The Human Beast'']
*Pages 267-270: With the Dancers (remarks by Peter Lindamood) [discussion of ''Zunguru'' by Asadata Dafora, etc.]
== Volume 18: November 1940 – June 1941 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1940 – December 1940) ===
*Page 2: Darius Milhaud, Self Portrait (1940) [image]
*Pages 3-7: Douglas Moore, "Our Lyric Theatre"
*Pages 8-11: Roy Harris, "Folksong—American Big Business"
*Pages 12-14: Paul Bowles, "Sylvestre Revueltas"
*Pages 15-17: Virgil Thomson, "Chaplin Scores"
*Pages 18-21: Aaron Copland, "The Composers Get Wise"
*Pages 22-26: Alfred Einstein, "Affinities of the Ages"
*Pages 27-30: Paul Rosenfeld, "Griffes on Grand Street"
*Pages 31-36: Lazare Saminsky, "In the Argentine"
*Pages 37-54: Forecast and Review
**Pages 37-41: Donald Fuller, "New York, 1940 – The Season Opens"
**Pages 41-43: Colin McPhee, "Jungles of Brazil" [report on the Festival of Brazilian Music and the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos]
**Pages 43-44: Remi Gassmann, "Milhaud, Carpenter, Harris in Chicago"
**Pages 45-46: Darius Milhaud, "Paris Opera Just Before the Occupation"
**Pages 46-49: Henry Cowell, "Drums Along the Pacific"
**Pages 49-52: Arthur Cohn, "New Works at Yaddo" [i.e. Richard Donovan's ''Serenade'', David Diamond's ''Concerto for Chamber Orchestra'', etc.]
**Pages 52-54: John Kirkpatrick, "Bennington's Festival of the Arts"
*Pages 55-58: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 58-61: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [some of the film scores commented upon: Richard Hageman - ''The Long Voyage Home'', Marc Blitzstein - ''Valley Town'', Douglas Moore - ''Power and the Land'', Fred Stewart - ''Children Must Learn'' etc.]
*Pages 61-64: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [treats Balanchine's ''Poker Game'' etc.]
*Pages 64-65: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [treats broadcasts of works by Villa-Lobos, Henry Cowell, Ernest Bloch, Constant Lambert, etc.]
*Pages 66-67: Recent Books
**Page 66: Henry Cowell, "Music in History" [review of ''Music in History'' by Howard D. McKinney and W.R. Anderson, published by the American Book Company]
**Pages 66-67: Edwin Denby, "A Dancer Who Thinks" [review of ''Serge Diaghilev'' by Serge Lifar, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons] 
*Page 68: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1941 – February 1941) ===
*Page 70: Howard Bay, "No for an Answer," Project for Marc Blitzstein's Opera [image]
*Pages 71-75: Benjamin Britten, "England and the Folk-Art Problem"
*Pages 76-80: Frederick Jacobi, "America's Popular Music"
*Pages 81-83: Samuel L.M. Barlow, "Blitzstein's Answer" [treats Marc Blitzstein's ''No For an Answer'']
*Pages 84-89: Martha Alter, "American Composers, XVI: Howard Hanson"
*Pages 90-97: Columbia University's Office of Radio Research, "Making A Hit"
*Pages 98-99: Henry Cowell, "Roldan and Caturla of Cuba"
*Pages 100-106: Paul Nettl, "Alexandrian America"
*Pages 107-123: Forecast and Review
**Pages 107-113: Donald Fuller, "Mid-Season, New York, 1940-41"
**Pages 113-114: Herbert Elwell, "[Roy]Harris' Folksong Symphony"
**Pages 114-116: Remi Gassmann, "The New Stravinsky"
**Pages 116-118: Arno Huth, "Paris – By Grace of Goering"
**Pages 118-120: Grosvenor Cooper, "Three Milhauds"
**Pages 120-121: Henry Pleasants, "Schönberg, Shostakovich, Stokowski"
**Pages 121-123: Arno Huth, "Swiss Premiere – Honegger's ''Nicolas de Flue''"
*Pages 124-125: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 125-127: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 128-131: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 131-133: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills)
*Pages 133-134: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles)
*Pages 135-139: Recent Books
**Pages 135-137: Minna Lederman, "Radio Blueprint" [review of ''Radio and the Printed Page'' by Paul Lazarsfeld; published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in 1940]
**Pages 137-139: Alan Lomax, "Songs of the American Folk" [review of ''A Treasury of American Song'' by Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister; published by Howell, Soskin and Company in 1940]
*Page 140: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1941 – April 1941) ===
*Page 142: Costume Designs by José Guadalupe Posada for Silvestre Revueltas's ballet ''La Coronela'' [images]
*Pages 143-146: Ernst Krenek, "The Survival of Tradition"
*Pages 147-154: Paul Rosenfeld, "Language and Modern Music"
*Pages 155-158: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Composers of Peru"
*Pages 159-163: Edward T. Cone, "Roger Sessions' String Quartet"
*Pages 164-167: Karol Rathaus, "To Study With a Master"
*Pages 168-187: Forecast and Review
**Pages 168-173: Donald Fuller, "Season's Height, New York, 1941"
**Pages 173-175: Robert Ward, "More Seasonal Notes" [remarks on Copland's ''Quiet City'', Bloch's ''Evocations'', Emil Koehler's Piano Sonata etc.]
**Pages 175-176: Humphrey Searle, "Music in Britain, Come What May"
**Pages 176-178: Henry Cowell, "The League's Evening of Films"
**Page 179: Paul Bowles, "Dance Memorial to Revueltas"
**Pages 179-181: Henry Pleasants, "Opera and Orchestra in Philadelphia" [remarks on Bartok's ''Divertimento'', Barber's Violin Concerto, and Nordoff's ''The Masterpiece'', etc.]
**Pages 181-183: Remi Gassmann, "Chicago Still in the Jubilee" [remarks on Kodaly's ''Concerto for Orchestra'', Rudolph Ganz's Piano Concerto, etc.]
**Pages 183-185: Josephine Metcalf, "Quickening the Dead"
**Pages 185-187: Alfred Frankenstein, "San Francisco Rejuvenated"
*Pages 188-189: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 189-193: In the Theatre (reviews by Samuel L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 193-195: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [treats film scores by Louis Gruenberg, Miklos Rozsa, Lev Schwartz, etc.]
*Pages 195-199: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 199-202: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills)
*Pages 203-207: Recent Books
**Pages 203-205: Paul Henry Lang, "The Middle and Modern Ages" [review of ''Music in the Middle Ages'' by Gustave Reese, published by Norton in 1940]
**Pages 205-206: Colin McPhee, "Tools of Musical Culture" [review of ''The History of Musical Instruments'' by Dr. Curt Sachs, published by Norton in 1940]
**Pages 206-207: Herbert Weinstock, "Charting the Course of Western Music" [review of ''A Rosa de los Vientos en la Musica Europea'' by Adolfo Salazar, published by Ediciones de la O.S.M. in 1940]
*Page 208: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1941 – June 1941) ===
*Pages 211-217: Roger Sessions, "American Music and the Crisis" [letter]
*Pages 218-224: Aaron Copland, "Five Post-Romantics" [a chapter from the author's book ''Our New Music'']
*Pages 225-230: Paul Bowles, "On Mexico's Popular Music"
*Page 231: Charlotte Trowbridge, drawing of Martha Graham [image]
*Pages 232-234: Theodore Chanler, "Poetry and Music"
*Pages 235-241: Charles Edward Smith and William Russell, "New Orleans Style"
*Pages 242-249: Samuel L.M. Barlow, "American Composers, XVII: Virgil Thomson"
*Pages 250-254: Hanns Eisler, "Film Music—Work in Progress"
*Pages 255-266: Forecast and Review
**Pages 255-259: Donald Fuller, "Season's Close—New York, Spring, 1941"
**Pages 259-261: Arthur Cohn, "Rochester's Eleventh U.S.A. Festival"
**Pages 261-263: Jerome Moross, "Hollywood Music Without Movies"
**Pages 263-264: Remi Gassmann, Jubilee Wind-Up"
**Pages 264-266: Minna Lederman, "Museum Pieces"
*Pages 267-269: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 269-270: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 271-274: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [works discussed: Boris Koutzen, ''Concerto for Five Solo Instruments and String Orchestra''; David Diamond, ''Aria and Hymn for Orchestra''; Gardner Read, ''Prelude and Toccata for Orchestra''; Herbert Haufreucht, ''Three Fantastic Marches for Orchestra''; Edmund Haines, ''Three Dances for Orchestra'', etc.]
*Pages 275-278: New Books
**Pages 275-277: Alfred Einstein, "Grove Salutes New Music" [review of the supplement to ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' edited by H.C. Colles, published by The Macmillan Company in 1940]
**Pages 277-278: Alex North, "Music for Dancing" [review of ''Choreographic Music'' by Verna Arvey, published by E.P. Dutton in 1941]
*Page 279: Contributors to this Issue
== Volume 19: November 1941 – June 1942 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1941 – December 1941) ===
*Page 2: B. Dolbin, Composers of Soviet Russia [sketches of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Miaskovsky]
*Pages 3-9: Arthur Lourié, "Notes on the 'New Order'"
*Pages 10-15: Paul Rosenfeld, "A Plea for Improvisation"
*Pages 16-20: x-1941, "The Nazis Draft Music for Total War"
*Pages 21-25: Lazare Saminsky, "Canadian Youth" [discusses Godfrey Ridout, Louis Applebaum, John J. Weinzweig, André Mathieu, Maurice Blackburn, Hector Gratton, Alexander Brott, Barbara Pentland, and Robert Fleming]
*Pages 26-31: Carleton Sprague Smith, "The Composers of Chile" [discusses Enrique Soro, Melo Cruz, Humberto Allende, Domingo Santa Cruz, Alfonso Leng, Alfonso Letelier Llona, and René Amengual among others]
*Pages  32-46: Forecast and Review
**Pages 32-36: Donald Fuller, "Fall Openings, 1941 – I.S.C.M. Date Model"
**Pages 36-39: Paul Bowles, "Letter from Mexico"
**Pages 39-42: Ralph Hawkes, "Publishing Music in a Time of World War"
**Pages 42-44: Henry Cowell, "Summer Festivals in the U.S.A."
**Pages 44-46: Arno Huth, "Swiss News"
*Pages 47-49: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 50-53: At the Opera (remarks by Douglas Moore)
*Pages 53-58: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 58-59: On the Film Front (remarks by John Latouche)
*Pages 59-62: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses David Diamond's ''Elegy in Memory of Ravel'', Bernard Herrmann's Symphony No. 1, Charles Jones's ''Suite for Small Orchestra'', and other works by Roy Harris, Julian Herbage, Adam Carse, Robert Russell Bennett, and Charles Naginski etc.]
*Pages 63-71: Recent Books
**Pages 63-65: Walter Piston, "Music in the Setting of World History" [review of ''Music in Western Civilization'' by Paul Henry Lang, published by Norton in 1941]
**Pages 65-67: Theodore Chanler, "The New Romanticism" [review of ''Our New Music'' by Aaron Copland, published by Whittlesey House in 1941]
**Pages 67-69: Conlon Nancarrow, "Mexican Music – A Developing Nationalism" [review of ''Panorama de la Música Mexicana – Desde la Independencia Hasta la Actualidad'' by Otto Mayer-Serra, published by El Colegio de México in 1941]
**Pages 69-70: Ross Lee Finney, "Piston's Manual of Harmonic Practice" [review of ''Harmony'' by Walter Piston, published by Norton in 1941]
**Pages 70-71: Elliott Carter, "Composers by the Alphabet" [review of ''Great Modern Composers'' edited by Oscar Thompson; published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1941]
*Page 72: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1942 – February 1942) ===
*Pages 75-82: Aaron Copland, "The Composers of South America"
*Pages 83-87: Henry Cowell, "In Time of Bitter War"
*Pages 88-91: Ernst Krenek, "Busoni—Then and Now"
*Pages 92-95: Paul [Henry] Lang, "Musicology for Music"
*Page 96: B. Dolbin sketch of William Schuman [image]
*Pages 97-99: Leonard Bernstein, "Young American - William Schuman"
*Pages 100-101: Benjamin Britten, "Au Revoir to the U.S.A."
*Pages 102-107: Bernhard Heiden, "Hindemith's 'System' — A New Approach"
*Page 108: Marian Greenwood, drawing of David Diamond [image]
*Pages 109-123: Forecast and Review
**Pages 109-115: Donald Fuller, "Americans to the Fore – New York, 1941-42" [brief reviews of William Schuman's ''Third Symphony'', Virgil Thomson's ''Second Symphony'', Carlos Chavez's ''Piano Concerto'', Shostakovich's ''Cello Sonata'' etc.]
**Pages 115-117: Charles Ives, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" [description of his own Fourth Violin Sonata]
**Pages 117-120: Ernest Chapman, "Britain Calls Music to the Colors" [discusses British musical activity in support of the war effort and also reviews new works such as William Walton's ''Violin Concerto'' and Alan Bush's ''Meditation on a German Song of 1848'']
**Pages 120-122: Ross Lee Finney, "Artists Find a Way—Minneapolis M.T.N.A."
**Pages 122-123: David Van Vactor, "New Works in Chicago" [Arthur Benjamin's ''Overtire to an Italian Comedy,'' Rachmaninoff's ''Symphonic Dances'', Leo Sowerby's ''String Quartet in G Minor'', etc.]
*Pages 124-126: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 126-129: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 129-132: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 132-134: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [discusses Hanns Eisler's score for ''Forgotten Village'' etc.]
*Pages 134-138: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Dai-Keong Lee's ''Introduction and Allegro'', Quincy Porter's music for ''Anthony and Cleopatra'', Henry Hadley's ''In Bohemia'' overture, Russell Bennett's ''Nocturne and Appassionata for Piano and Orchestra'', Juan José Castro's ''Symphony of the Fields'', Hindemith's ''Sonata for English Horn and Piano'' etc.]
*Pages 139-143: Recent Books
**Pages 139-140: Marc Blitzstein, "Singing Country" [review of ''Our Singing Country'', Volume II of ''American Ballads and Folk Songs''; collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax; published by The Macmillan Company]
**Pages 140-142: Frederick Jacobi, "The Approach to 'Greatness'" [review of ''Greatness in Music'' by Alfred Einstein, published by Oxford University Press in 1941]
**Pages 142-143: Robert Ward, "Quick-Sketch of Spain" [review of ''The Music of Spain'' by Gilbert Chase, published by Norton]
*Page 144: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1942 – April 1942) ===
*Pages 147-152: Lehman Engel, "Songs of the American Wars"
*Pages 153-155: Bela Bartok, "Race Purity in Music"
*Pages 156-162: Roger Sessions, "No More Business-As-Usual" [critique of American musical life during wartime]
*Pages 163-166: Colin McPhee, "The Green Earth Scorched" [on Bali and colonialism]
*Pages 167-168: Robert Ward, "In the Army Now" [on the status of the musician in the army]
*Pages 169-172: Richard Franko Goldman, "Bands in War-Time"
*Pages 173-189: Forecast and Review
**Pages 173-178: Donald Fuller, "Winter to Spring, New York, 1942" [remarks on Robert Russell Bennett's ''Eight Etudes for Orchestra'', Jaromir Weinberger's ''Lincoln Symphony'', Martinu's ''Concerto Grosso for Chamber Orchestra'', Poulenc's ''Two Piano Concerto'', Douglas Moore's ''A Symphony of Autumn'' etc.]
**Pages 178-181: Alfred Frankenstein, "Stravinsky in Beverley Hills"
**Pages 181-185: Arno Huth, "Collaboration in France–Swiss News"
**Pages 185-189: Arthur Cohn, "Chavez and the Chicago Drouth," and "Philadelphia Story"
*Pages 190-192: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 192-194: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [treats war films and scores by Antheil for ''Once in a Blue Moon'' and by Korngold for ''King's Row'' etc.]
*Pages 194-197: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow) [discusses ''Porgy and Bess'' by George Gershwin, and ''The Island God'' by Gian-Carlo Menotti etc.]
*Pages 197-201: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [Martha Graham's ''Punch and the Judy'' etc.]
*Pages 201-205: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses William Schuman's Fourth Symphony, Wayne Barlow's ''The Winter Passed'', Shostakovich's ''Piano Quintet'', Paul Creston's ''Pastorale and Tarantella for Orchestra'' etc.]
*Pages 206-211: Recent Books
**Pages 206-208: Minna Lederman, "American Way" [review of ''Who, What and Why is Radio?'' by Robert Landry, published by the George W. Stewart Company]
**Pages 208-210: Roy Welch, "Further Initiation Rites" [review of ''From Madrigal to Modern Music'' by Douglas Moore, published by Norton in 1942]
**Pages 210-211: Leonard Feather, "Nostalgic Guide to Jazz" [review of ''Jazz Record Book'' by Charles Edward Smith et al., published by Smith and Durell]
*Page 212: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1942 – June 1942) ===
*Pages 215-221: Paul Rosenfeld, "One of the Parents" [on Horatio Parker]
*Pages 222-227: Pedro Sanjuan, "Cuba's Popular Music"
*Pages 228-229: Theodore Chanler, "Arctic Arcadian" [critique of Jean Sibelius]
*Pages 233-235: Minna Lederman, "A Letter from Paris" [''La Revue Musicale'' etc.]
*Page 236: John Canaday, drawing of Randall Thompson [image]
*Pages 237-242: Quincy Porter, "American Composers, XVIII: Randall Thompson"
*Pages 243-245: John Cage, "For More New Sounds" [a call for sounds beyond conventional instruments, and the means to notate/represent them]
*Pages 246-248, 250: John Kirkpatrick, "Aaron Copland's Piano Sonata"
*Page 249: Jo Mielziner, "Pilar of Fire" – design for Anthony Tudor's ballet set to Arnold Schönberg's ''Verklärte Nacht'' (a spring production of the Ballet Theatre) [image]
*Pages 251-253: Edwin Hughes, "Blackout for the Music Industries"
*Pages 254-270: Forecast and Review
**Pages 254-260: Donald Fuller, "New York, Spring, '42; Music of the Americas" [remarks on William Schuman's Fourth Symphony, Samuel Barber's ''Second Essay for Orchestra'', Prokofiev's ''Scythian Suite'', etc.]
**Pages 260-263: John Cage, "South Winds in Chicago" [remarks on Harl McDonald's ''Overture (1941)'' and especially Hindemith's ''Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra'']
**Pages 263-265: Henry Cowell, "Improving Pan-American Music Relations"
**Page 266: Quincy Porter, "''Solomon and Balkis'' in Cambridge" [Randall Thompson's opera]
**Pages 267-270: Arthur Cohn, "Rogers, Diamond and Others at Rochester"
*Pages 271-272: Scores and Records (Remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 272-275: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [reviews of Fokine-Prokofiev-Dobujinski, ''Russian Solider''; and Tudor-Schönberg-Mielziner, ''Pillar of Fire'' etc.]
*Pages 275-278: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [remarks on Chaplin's ''Gold Rush'' and Marc Blitzstein's score for ''Native Land'' etc.]
*Pages 279-282: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Quincy Porter's ''Music for Strings'', Richard Arnell's ''Sonata for Chamber Orchestra'', Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, Rudolph Forst's ''Concerto for Cello and Orchestra'' etc.]
*Page 283: Contents of Recent Back Issues
*Page 284: Contributors to this Issue
*Pages 285-289: Index to Back Issues
== Volume 20: November 1942 – June 1943 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1942 – December 1942) ===
*Pages 3-7: Roger Sessions, "Artists and this War: A Letter to an Imaginary Colleague"
*Pages 8-12: Richard Franko Goldman, "Music for the Army"
*Pages 13-16: Germaine Tailleferre, "From the South of France"
*Pages 17-22:Theodore Chanler, "Stravinsky's Apologia"
*Pages 23-26: Lazare Saminsky, "Composers of the Pacific"
*Pages 27-32: Léon Kochnitzky, "Musical Portraits"
*Pages 33-36: Back Issues of Modern Music
*Pages 37-50: Forecast and Review
**Pages 37-40: Donald Fuller, "New York '42: Soviet Tribute: Stadium: Ballet"
**Pages 40-43: Arno Huth, "News from Paris and Elsewhere in Europe"
**Pages 43-46: Charles Cushing, "The I.S.C.M. in California" [premiere of Ellis Kohs' ''Concerto for Orchestra'' etc.]
**Pages 46-48: Carl Buchman, "Composers Dedicate Works to the Band" [Pedro Sanjuan's ''Canto Yorubá'', Morton Gould's ''Jericho'', William Schuman's ''News-Reel'', Percy Grainger's ''Lads of Wamphray'' etc.]
**Pages 49-50: James Sykes, "Native Notes in Colorado"
*Pages 51-52: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 53-57: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [includes remarks on Copland ballets]
*Pages 57-61: Films and Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles) [discusses some war films, Miklos Rosza's music for ''Jacare'' etc.]
*Pages 62-63: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [treats Shostakovich's newly broadcast Seventh Symphony, Copland's ''Lincoln Portrait'' and ''Music for Radio'' etc.]
*Pages 64-67: Recent Books
**Pages 64-66: Arthur Berger, "On Modern Music, But for Whom?" [review of ''This Modern Music'' by John Tasker Howard, published by Crowell]
**Pages 66-67: Minna Lederman, "Round the World with Radio" [review of ''Radio Today'' by Arno Huth, published by the Geneva Research Center]
*Page 68: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1943 – February 1943) ===
*Pages 71-77: Eugene Goossens, "The Public—Has It Changed?"
*Pages 78-82: Aaron Copland, "From the '20s to the '40s and Beyond"
*Pages 83-89: Paul Rosenfeld, "When New York Became Central"
*Pages 90-94: Paul Nettl, "The West Faces East"
*Pages 95-101: Howard Hanson, "Twenty Years; Growth in America"
*Pages 102-111: Ernst Krenek, "Opera Between the Wars"
*Pages 112-125: Forecast and Review
**Pages 112-115: Donald Fuller, "New York Mid-Season, 1942–'43" [premiere of Martinu's First Symphony in Boston, Bernard Herrman's First Symphony, remarks on frequent Shostakovich symphony performances, new Two-Piano Sonata by Hindemith, etc.]
**Pages 115-117: Israel Citkowitz, "Birthday Pieces" [treats Piston's Flute/Strings Quintet, Milhaud's Eleventh String Quartet, Arthur Shepherd's ''Praeludium Salutorium,'' etc.]
**Pages 117-120: Marc Blitzstein, "London: Fourth Winter of the Blackout" [describes musical/cultural life here at the height of the war]
**Pages 121-124: Leopoldo Hurtado, "Inter-American Reviews"
**Pages 124-125: Leah Brenner, "Below the Rio Grande"
*Pages 126-129: Scores and Records, "1923-1943" [remarks by Colin McPhee on music publishing and recording during this span, with some discussion of particular works]
*Pages 129-132: Films and Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles)
*Pages 132-137: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 137-139: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Bernard van Dieren's ''Sonnet Amoretti'', Charles Martin Loeffler's ''Pagan Poem'', Harold Triggs' ''The Bright Land'', etc.]
*Pages 140-142: Recent Books
**Pages 140-142: Paul Bowles, "Once Again, Le Jazz Hot" [review of ''The Real Jazz'' by Hugues Panassié, published by Smith and Durrell]
*Page 143: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 144: "Leading Figures Hail the League" [short tributes by Serge Koussevitszky, Leopold Stokowsi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Darius Milhaud, Olin Downes, Charles Seeger, Howard Hanson, Oscar Thompson, and Eugene Goossens]
=== Number 3 (March 1943 – April 1943) ===
*Pages 147-151: Israel Citkowitz, "Abstract Method and the Voice"
*Pages 152-156: John Peatman, "'Non-Militant, Sentimental...'"
*Pages 157-160: Willard Rhodes, "On the Warpath, 1942"
*Pages 161-169: Robert Horan, "American Composers, XIX: Samuel Barber"
*Pages 170-174: Robert Ward, "Letter from the Army"
*Pages 175-203: Forecast and Review
**Pages 175-182: Arthur Berger, "Once Again, the One-Man Show, 1943"
**Pages 182-185: Donald Fuller, "More on the New York Season"
**Pages 185-187: S. Schlifstein, "News from Russia (By Cable to Modern Music from Moscow): On 'War and Peace'" [Prokofiev]
**Pages 187-189: Igor Boelza, "Shebalin's Overture, Glière's Concerto"
**Pages 189-191: Howard Hess, "Fanfares by Americans"
**Pages 191-193: Ingolf Dahl, "'Tough Concerts' in Los Angeles"
**Pages 193-195: Alfred Frankenstein, "For San Francisco, Orchestral Moderns"
**Pages 195-197: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Bartok's Latest, 'American Repertory'"
**Pages 197-199: Carlos Raygada, "Inter-American Reviews: The Curse of the Virtuoso Routine" [contemporary music in Lima]
**Pages 199-202: R.U.A., "Politics and International Influence" [contemporary music in Montevideo]
**Pages 202-203: Myron Schaeffer, "At the World's Crossroads" [musical life in Panama]
*Pages 204-205: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [David Diamond's ''Quintet in B Minor'', Virgil Thomson's ''Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripedes'', etc.]
*Pages 205-207: Films and Theatre (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Louis Gruenberg's music for ''Commandos Strike At Dawn'', etc.]
*Pages 207-209: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 209-213: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [comments on Roy Harris's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's ''Symphony in C'', etc.]
*Pages 214-215: Recent Books
**Pages 214-215: Gilbert Chase, "Americanismo Musical" [review of ''Boletín Latino American de Música'' Vol. 5, edited by Francesco Curt Lange]
*Page 216: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1943 – June 1943) ===
*Page 218: Frank Waldo Murray, Portrait of Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert [image]
*Pages 219-225: Elliott Carter, "American Figure, With Landscape" [discusses Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert]
*Pages 226-228: Theodore Chanler, "Words and Musical Form"
*Pages 229-234: Edwin Denby, "About Words for Singing"
*Pages 235-242: Colin McPhee, "Eight to the Bar" [on rhythm in jazz and world music]
*Pages 243-247: Henry and Sidney Robertson Cowell, "Our Country Music"
*Pages 248-253: Otto Luening, "American Composers, XX: Douglas Moore"
*Pages 254-276: Forecast and Review
**Pages 254-257: Arthur Berger, "Spring Season, 1943"
**Pages 257-260: Donald Fuller, "Society Notes in New York"
**Pages 260-262: Winthrop P. Tryon, "First in Boston" [a group of premieres]
**Pages 262-264: George Frederick McKay, "War Boom in the Northwest"
**Pages 264-266: Paul Rosenfeld, "Robert Palmer and Charles Mills"
**Pages 267-268: Stewart B. Sabin, "Thirteen at Rochester" [13th annual Rochester School Festival of Music; treats premiere of Sowerby's Violin Concerto, etc.]
**Pages 268-270: G. Michailov, "As They See Us in Russia"
**Pages 270-273: Samuel L.M. Barlow, "Inter-American Reviews: Chilean Travels"
**Pages 273-276: Luis Sandi, "Struggle in Mexico" [difficulties with music education there]
*Pages 277-278: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [discusses Copland's ''A Lincoln Portrait'', Paul Hindemith's ''Six Chansons'', Henry Cowell's ''How Ols is Song'', etc.]
*Pages 279-282: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 282-284: Theatre and Films (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Roy Webb's score for ''The Human Comedy'', etc.]
*Pages 284-286: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, Prokofiev's cantata ''Alexander Nevsky'', William Schuman's ''A Free Song'', Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony, Hindemith's Symphony in E-Flat, Vladimir Dukelsky's Violin Concerto, etc.]
*Pages 286-287: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure") [new section on jazz, blues, and popular tunes for this periodical; mentions Brad Gowan's band, Lil Green, Duke Ellington, etc.]
*Pages 288-291: Recent Books
**Pages 288-290: Minna Lederman, "Pamphlets and Pamphleteers" [short reviews of various booklets on Russian music]
**Pages 290-291: Israel Citkowitz, "Interpretive Style" [review of ''History of Music in Performance'' by Frederick Dorian, published by Norton in 1942]
*Page 292: Contributors to this Issue
== Volume 21: November 1943 – June 1944 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1943 – December 1943) ===
*Pages 3-5: Theodore Chanler, "Poetry, Music and Time"
*Pages 6-9: Alfred Frankenstein, "How to Make Friends by Radio"
*Pages 10-15: Sidney Robertson Cowell, "White Spirituals"
*Pages 16-17: Vissarion Shebalin, "Dean of Soviet Composers" [on Nikolai Miaskovsky]
*Pages 16-22: Keith Thompson, "Opera in America Today"
*Pages 23-26: Douglas Moore, "Young Composers After the War"
*Pages 27-30: Kurt List, "Anton von Webern"
*Pages 31-47: Forecast and Review
**Pages 31-34: Colin McPhee, "The Season Opens–1943" [discusses Bartok's Violin Concerto, Bernard Rogers' ''Invasion'', Douglas Moore's ''Prayer for the Nation'', etc.]
**Pages 34-36: Lou Harrison, "Summer and Early Fall, New York" [discusses Henry Cowell's ''Shoonthree'', Wallingford Riegger's ''Prelude and Fugue'', Stanley Bate's Piano Sonatina, etc.]
**Pages 37-39: Lawrence Morton, "American Conductor and Works for L.A."
**Pages 39-41: Arno Huth, "Where Nations Still Meet" [cultural activity in Switzerland]
**Pages 41-42: Eleanor Wakefield, "Red Star Over the Southwest" [Soviet music concert in Houston]
**Pages 42-44: Robert Evett, "Lively Conference in Colorado" [annual Fine Arts Conference at Colorado Springs]
**Pages 44-45: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Martinu's Second Symphony"
**Pages 45-47: Norman Nairn, "Informal Symposium at Rochester" [David Diamond's Second Symphony, etc.]
**Page 47: "Joshua at Jericho—Soviet Style" [Leon Himmelfarb's jazz band music heard over the German battlefield]
*Pages 48-50: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [discusses Bartok piano works, Copland's ''Danzon Cubano'', Douglas Moore's ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'', etc.]
*Pages 50-53: Theatre and Films (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Kurt Weill's music for ''One Touch of Venus'', Copland's music for ''North Star'', Alexandre Tansman's score for Duvivier's ''Flesh and Fantasy'', etc.]
*Pages 53-57: Dancing on Broadway (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 57-60: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [negative comments on Edmund Rubbra's Third Symphony, discussion of Stravinsky's ''Ode for Orchestra'' and Leroy Robertson's ''Piano Quintet'', etc.]
*Pages 60-61: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
*Pages 62-63: Recent Books
**Pages 62-63: Arthur Berger, "Why Not Write a Book?" [review of ''The Music Lover's Handbook'' by Elie Siegmeister, published by William Morrow and Company]
*Page 64: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1944 – February 1944) ===
*Page 66: M. Larionov, Sketch of Prokofiev, Diaghilev, and Larionov "At a Rehearsal of the Ballet Russe in Paris during the 'twenties" [image]
*Pages 67-69: Serge Prokofiev, "My Cinderella"
*Pages 70-75: Marcelle de Manziarly, "On Rhythm, Complex and Simple"
*Pages 76-81: Jacques de Menasce, "Berg and Bartok"
*Pages 82-84: William Strickland, "The Army Way Today"
*Pages 85-88: "What Makes a Good War Song? Report from V.O.K.S. on the Moscow Meeting of Composers"
*Pages 89-95: Darius Milhaud, "Through My California Window"
*Pages 96-111: Forecast and Review
**Pages 96-97: Colin McPhee, "Winter Stars and Lesser Lights"
**Pages 98-100: Lou Harrison, "Composers, Singers and Chamber Music" [comments on Britten's ''Seven Sonnets'', Douglas Moore's ''Three Divine Sonnets'', songs by John Edmunds, Miklos Rosza's ''Variations'', Anis Fuleihan's ''Piano Sonata Number Two'', etc.]
**Pages 100-102: Lawrence Morton, "American Symphonists in Los Angeles" [William Schuman's Third, Paul Creston's First, Robert Russell Bennett's ''Four Freedoms'', etc.]
**Pages 102-104: Moses Smith, "Boston Goes All Out on Premieres" [Berezovsky's Fourth Symphony, William Schuman's ''Symphony for Strings'', Howard Hanson's Fourth Symphony, etc.]
**Pages 104-106: Vincent Persichetti, "Philadelphia Takes a Flier" [world premieres of Martinu's ''Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra'', and Hindemith's ''Cupid and Psyche'', etc.]
**Pages 107-108: Cecil Smith, "Breaking Trails in Chicago"
**Pages 108-110: Alfred Frankenstein, "Milhaud's 'Midian' in Orchestral Debut"
**Pages 110-111: Frederick Dorian, "Music Boom in War-Time Pittsburgh"
*Pages 112-113: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [Hindemith's ''Ludus Tonalis'', Piston's ''Passacaglia'' for piano, etc.]
*Pages 113-116: Dancing on Broadway (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 116-118: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton)
*Pages 118-119: In the Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles)
*Pages 120-121: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [Schoenberg orchestration of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, Villa-Lobos's ''Choros Number 1'', etc.]
*Pages 121-123: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
*Pages 124-127: Recent Books
**Pages 124-125: Israel Citkowitz, "And Now, Basic Music" [reviews of ''Models for Beginners in Composition'' by Arnold Schoenberg, published by Schirmer; and ''Traditional Harmony'' by Paul Hindemith, published by Associated Music Publishers]
**Pages 126-127: Donald Fuller, "Biography, Premature or Overdone" [reviews of ''Dmitri Shostakovich, the Life and Background of a Soviet Composer'' by Victor Ilyich Seroff with Nadejda Galli-Shohat, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943; and ''Charles T. Griffes, the Life of an American Composer'' by Edward M. Maisel, published by A. Knopf in 1943]
*Page 128: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1944 – April 1944) ===
*Page 130: Arnold Schönberg, Self-Portrait (March 1944) [image]
*Pages 131-145: "Homage to Schönberg" [Schoenberg]
**Pages 131-134: Ernst Krenek, "The Idiom and the Technic"
**Pages 135-138: Lou Harrison, "The Late Works"
**Pages 139-145: Kurt List: "Ode to Napoleon"
*Pages 146-149: S.L.M. Barlow, "The Artist in South America"
*Pages 150-154: André Breton (translated by Louise Varèse), "Silence is Golden"
*Pages 155-158: Paul Nettl, "Music as a Weapon of War"
*Pages 159-182: Forecast and Review
**Pages 159-164: Lou Harrison, "Mid-Winter in New York, 1944" [discusses Hindemith performances, Dukelsky's Violin Concero, Miaskovsky's Second Sinfonietta, Stanlet Bate's Second String Quartet, etc.]
**Pages 164-169: Donald Fuller, "Style in Recent Chamber Music" [discusses chamber works by Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Vladimir Dukelsky, Benjamin Britten, etc.]
**Pages 169-171: Lawrence Morton, "The Harris Third and Other Works in L.A." [Menotti's ''The Old Maid and the Thief'', Tchemberdji's ''Dance Suite'', Harold Shapero's Violin Sonata, etc.]
**Pages 171-173: Moses Smith, "Stravinsky Meets the Boston Censor"
**Pages 173-175: Alfred Frankenstein, "Reviving Henry F. Gilbert"
**Pages 175-177: Vincent Persichetti, "Revueltas Reaches Philadelphia"
**Pages 177-179: George H. Lovett Smith, "Americana, New and Old"
**Pages 179-180: Ray Brown, "Piston's New Symphony in Washington" [Second Symphony]
**Pages 180-182: Roberto Garcia Morillo, "Argentine Season"
*Pages 183-184: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [mentions increasing American interest in Mahler, discusses Virgil Thomson's Third Piano Sonata, etc.]
*Pages 184-186: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton) [discusses Bernard Herrmann's score to ''Jane Eyre'', etc.]
*Pages 186-188: With the Dancers (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 188-191: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Stravinsky's Symphony in C, Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Antheil's Fourth Symphony, Hanson's Fourth Symphony, Persichetti's Piano Trio, Diamond's Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, etc.]
*Pages 191-193: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure") [comments on the singing of Mildred Bailey, etc.]
*Pages 194-195: Recent Books
**Pages 194-195: Arthur Berger, "The Rediscovery of Consonance" [review of ''The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West'' by Curt Sachs, published by Norton]
**Page 195: Colin McPhee, "One More for the Record" [review of ''Jazz, from the Congo to the Metropolitan'' by Robert Goffin, published by Doubleday Doran]
*Page 196: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1944 – June 1944) ===
*Pages 199-202: Elliott Carter, "Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge"
*Pages 203-207: Arthur Lourié, "The Approach to the Masses"
*Pages 208-211: Theodore Chanler, "Rhythm and Habit"
*Pages 212-216: W.H. Mellers, "New Trends in Britain: A Note on Rubbra and Tippett"
*Pages 217-220: Aaron Copland, "On the Notation of Rhythm"
*Pages 221-224: E. Power Biggs, "Organ Revival: Music Old and New"
*Pages 225-232: Donald Fuller, "American Composers, XXI: Bernard Wagenaar"
*Pages 233-258: Forecast and Review
**Pages 233-237: Lou Harrison, "Season's End, May 1944" [includes a negative review of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, as well as brief reviews of Barber's Second and William Schuman's Fifth Symphonies; also includes remarks on music by Harry Partch and John Cage, etc.]
**Pages 237-240: Donald Fuller, "Bernstein, Ballet, and Chamber Music"
**Pages 240-243: Gail Kubik, "London Letter" [contains significant remarks on Michael Tippett's music, etc.]
**Pages 243-246: Cecil Smith, "Composers to Chicago" [recounts performances of music by Copland, Gassmann, Thomson, Hindemith, Prokofiev, etc.]
**Pages 246-248: Bernard Rogers, "The New Works at Rochester" [treats William Bergsma's Second Symphony, Burrill Phillips's ''Declaratives'', Douglas Moore's ''In Memorium'', Gardner Read's ''Night Flight'', Elliott Carter's First Symphony, etc.]
**Pages 248-251: Vincent Persichetti, "Some Firsts in Philadelphia" [remarks on Eugene Zador's ''Biblical Triptych'', etc.]
**Pages 251-253: Moses Smith, "Americans and Shostakovich in Boston" [remarks on Shostakovich Eighth, Roy Harris's music, Barber's Second Symphony, Piston's Second Symphony, etc.]
**Pages 253-255: Frederick Dorian, "The New and Contemporary in Pittsburgh"
**Pages 255-257: Lawrence Morton, "Diminuendo in the West" [remarks on William Schuman's ''A Free Song'', etc.]
**Pages 257-258: Ray C.B. Brown, "War Brings More Music to the Capital"
*Pages 259-260: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 261-264: With the Dancers (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 264-266: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton)
*Pages 266-267: In the Theatre (Paul Bowles)
*Pages 268-270: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [more remarks on Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, remarks on Harris's Sixth Symphony, etc.]
*Pages 270-271: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
*Page 272: Contributors to this Issue
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Volume 3: November 1925 – June 1926

Number 1 (November 1925 – 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 1926 – 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 1926 – 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 1926 – 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 1926 – 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 1927 – 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 1927 – 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 1927 – 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 1927 – 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 1928 – 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 1928 – 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 1928 – 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 1928 – 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 1929 – 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 1929 – 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 1929 – 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 3-8: Paul Rosenfeld, "The Destiny of Exile"
  • Pages 9-13: Hugh Ross, "Szymanowski and His Stabat Mater"
  • Pages 14-19: Hans Heinsheimer, "A New Patron for Music"
  • Pages 20-22: Mary Wigman, "Composition in Pure Movement"
  • Pages 23-28: Richard Hammond, "American Composers. IV: Emerson Whithorne"
  • Pages 29-38: Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno, "Berg and Webern–Schönberg's Heirs"
  • Pages 39-47: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 39-42: Marc Blitzstein, "New York Chronicle of New Music"
    • Pages 42-45: Walter Piston, "Stravinsky as Psalmist—1931"
    • Pages 45-47: Henry Cowell, "The 'Sones' of Cuba"
  • Page 48: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1931 – April 1931)

  • Page 2: Lee Simonson, "Figure from The Age of Steel" [Prokofiev]
  • Pages 3-9: Boris de Schloezer, "Man, Music and the Machine"
  • Pages 10-14: Hans Heinsheimer, "Film Opera – Screen vs. Stage"
  • Pages 15-19: Max Butting, "Music of and for the Piano"
  • Pages 20-24: Charles Weyl, "The Orchestra on the Air"
  • Page 25: Robert Edmond Jones, design of The Barracks' Scene in Wozzeck [image]
  • Pages 26-31: Joseph Schillinger, "Electricity, A Musical Liberator"
  • Pages 32-34: Henry Cowell, "Music of and for the Records"
  • Pages 35-47: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 35-38: Richard Hammond, "Pioneers of Movie Music"
    • Pages 38-42: Marc Blitzstein, "Dancers of the Season"
    • Pages 42-45: Colin McPhee, "Winter Chronicle New York"
    • Pages 45-46: Alfred Einstein, "Schönberg's Super-Film Musik"
    • Pages 46-47: Marion Bauer, "World Almanac of Radio" [review of Andre Coeuroy, Panorama de la Radio]
  • Page 48: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1931 – June 1931)

  • Pages 3-11: Arthur Lourie, "The Crisis in Form"
  • Pages 12-16: Alfred Schlee, "Expressionism in the Dance"
  • Pages 17-28: Randall Thompson, "American Composers V. George Antheil"
  • Pages 29-32: Nikolai Lopatnikoff, "Independents in Central Europe"
  • Pages 33-47: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 33-39: Marc Blitzstein, "Spring Season in the East"
    • Pages 39-42: Bernard Rogers, "Rochester's American Series"
    • Pages 42-44: Alfred V. Frankenstein, "The Coolidge Festival—Music and Dance"
    • Pages 44-47: Wladimir Vogel, "New Drift in Germany's I.S.C.M."
  • Page 48: Notes on Contributors

Volume 9: November 1931 – June 1932

Number 1 (November 1931 – December 1931)

  • Pages 3-7: Hans Heinsheimer, "Youth Leaves the Vanguard"
  • Pages 8-16: John Tasker Howard, "American Composers VI: John Alden Carpenter"
  • Pages 17-23: Aaron Copland, "Contemporaries at Oxford, 1931"
  • Pages 24-27: Alfred Schlee, "Laban and the Berlin Staatsoper"
  • Pages 28-30: Jerzy Fitelberg, "Aspects of Instrumentation Today"
  • Pages 31-45: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 31-33: Randall Thompson, "The Bartered Cow" [review of Louis Gruenberg's opera Jack and the Beanstalk]
    • Pages 33-35: Hans Gutman, "Janacek's House of the Dead"
    • Pages 35-38: Arthur Mendel, "Source Book of American Music" [review of John Tasker Howard, Our American Music]
    • Page 38-41: Lazare Saminsky, "Encounters Stimulating and Otherwise"
    • Pages 41-44: Hans Gutman, "Standstill at Bremen"
    • Pages 44-45: Paul Pisk, "The Bacchantes of Wellesz" [review of Wellesz's Die Bakchantinnen]
  • Page 46: Contributors to this Issue
  • Pages 47-48: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music

Number 2 (January 1932 – February 1932)

  • Pages 51-61: Arthur Hoeree, "The Renaissance of Choral Music"
  • Pages 63-66: Willi Reich, "Schönberg's New Männerchor"
  • Pages 67-73: Virgil Thomson, "American Composers VII: Aaron Copland"
  • Pages 74-78: Raymond Petit, "Latin Gaiety Today"
  • Pages 79-93: Forecast and Review
    • Pages: 79-85: Marc Blitzstein, "Tame Season in New York"
    • Pages 85-88: Aaron Copland, "Stravinsky and Hindemith Premieres" [Stravinsky's Violin Concerto and Hindemith's oratorio Das Unaufhörliche]
    • Pages 88-89: Richard Hammond, "Paris Notes"
    • Pages 90-92: Nikolai Lopatnikoff, "America in Berlin"
    • Pages 92-93: Henry Boys, "America in London"
  • Page 94: Notes on Contributors
  • Pages 95-96: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music

Number 3 (March 1932 – April 1932)

  • Pages 98,147: 114: Diego Rivera, Costume Designs for a ballet by Carlos Chavez [images]
  • Pages 99-107: Adolph Weiss, "The Lyceum of Schönberg"
  • Pages 108-113: Alfred Schlee, "Under the Red Flag"
  • Pages 115-120: Hans Heinsheimer, "German Music on the Breadline"
  • Pages 121-139: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 121-127: Marc Blitzstein, "Premieres and Experiments—1932"
    • Pages 127-130: Paul Stefan, "Vienna Resists the Depression"
    • Pages 130-133: Jeffrey Mark, "The 'Organic' Approach to Music" [review of Arthur Lourie, Serge Koussevitzsky and His Epoch; and Cecil Gray, Sibelius]
    • Pages 134-137: Alexander Smallens, "The Professor Looks at Music" [review of Daniel Gregory Mason, Tune In, America: A Study of Our Coming Musical Independence]
    • Pages 137-138: Lazare Saminsky, "Mediterranean Stravinsky—A New Myth" [brief review of Domenico de Paoli, Igor Stravinski]
    • Pages 138-139: Lazare Saminsky, "A Conductor on the Modern Orchestra" [brief review of Herman Scherchen, Lehrbuch des Dirigieren]
  • Page 140: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1932 – June 1932)

  • Pages 143-147: Aaron Copland, "The Composer and His Critic"
  • Pages 148-152: Robert Russell Bennett, "Orchestrating for Broadway"
  • Pages 153-159: Paul Rosenfeld, "American Composers VIII: Carlos Chavez"
  • Pages 160-163: Guido M. Gattti, "Opera Advances in Italy"
  • Pages 164-187: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 164-168: Marc Blitzstein, "Music and Theatre - 1932"
    • Pages 168-172: Israel Citkowitz, "Spring Concerts in New York"
    • Pages 172-176: Alfred H. Meyer, "Yaddo—A May Festival"
    • Pages 176-178: Pitts Sanborn, "All-America on the Air"
    • Pages 178-182: Harrington Shortall, "Chicago's Season in Review"
    • Pages 182-184: Emanuel Balaban, "Progress At Rochester"
    • Pages 184-187: Jerzy Fitelberg, "More Americans and Kurt Weill in Berlin"
  • Page 188: Contributors to this Issue

Modern Music Monographs No.2: Dr. Willi Reich, Wozzeck: A Guide to the Words and Music of the Opera (25 Pages)

Volume 10: November 1932 – June 1933

Number 1 (November 1932 – December 1932)

  • Page 2: Jo Mielziner, Sketch for Louis Gruenberg's opera The Emperor Jones [image]
  • Pages 3-9: Gilbert Seldes, "An Open Letter to Roxy"
  • Pages 10-17: Boris de Schloezer, "The Enigma of Stravinsky"
  • Page 18: Pavel Tchelitchev, Portrait of Igor Markevitch [image]
  • Pages 19-23: Virgil Thomson, "Igor Markevitch: Little Rollo in Big Time"
  • Pages 24-33: Henry Cowell, "American Composers IX: Charles Ives"
  • Pages 34-39: Frederick Jacobi, "Reflections on the Vienna Festival"
  • Pages 40-57: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 40-42: André Schaeffner, "The Russians in Paris"
    • Pages 42-46: Alfred Schlee, "The Germans in Paris"
    • Pages 46-48: Paul Stefan, "Italy Glances at the New World of Music"
    • Pages 49-52: Ashley Pettis, "Musical Flashlights from Moscow"
    • Pages 52-54: Isaac Goldberg, "A Composer on the Music of Our Day" [review of Lazare Saminsky, Music Of Our Day, published by Thomas Crowell Company]
    • Pages 54-56: Richard Donovan, "American Music, 1912 - 1932" [review of American Composers, published by the United States section of the International Society for Contemporary Music]
    • Pages 56-57: Lazare Saminsky, "New Tonal Horizons" [review of Joseph Yasser, A Theory of Evolving Tonality, published by the American Library of Musicology]
  • Pages 58-59: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music
  • Page 60: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1933 – February 1933)

  • Pages 63-78: Roger Sessions, "Music in Crisis: Some Notes on Recent Musical History"
  • Pages 79-86: Eugen Braudo, "The Russian Panorama"
  • Pages 87-92: Aaron Copland, "The Composer in America, 1923-1933"
  • Pages 93-95: Lazare Saminsky, "Europe and America in Music Today"
  • Pages 96-102: Marc Blitzstein, "Popular Music–An Invasion: 1923-1933"
  • Pages 103-106: Irving Kolodin, "Ten Years of Modern Music Recording"
  • Pages 107-117: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 107-109: Virgil Thomson, "Home Thoughts"
    • Pages 109-110: Randall Thompson, "The Emperor at the Opera" [review of Louis Gruenberg's opera The Emperor Jones]
    • Pages 110-114: Israel Citkowitz, "Experiment and Necessity—New York, 1932"
    • Pages 114-115: I.[srael] C.[itkowitz], "Birthday and Baptism"
    • Pages 115-117: Hans Heinsheimer, "Nightmare in Germany" [discusses the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany and its effect upon the arts]
  • Pages 118-119: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music
  • Page 120: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1933 – April 1933)

  • Page 2: Robert Edmond Jones, Preliminary Sketch of Pierrot Lunaire [image]
  • Pages 123-129: Eric Blom, "The Twentieth Century Slump"
  • Pages 130-139: Hugo Leichtentritt, "Bartok and the Hungarian Folk-Song"
  • Page 140: Oscar Walleck, Design for World Premiere of a Malipiero work [image]
  • Pages 141-148: Virgil Thomson, "Now in Paris"
  • Pages 149-153: Henry Cowell, "Towards Neo-Primitivism"
  • Pages 154-171: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 154-157: Israel Citkowitz, "Winter Music—New York, 1933"
    • Pages 157-160: Paul Love, "False Dawn for the Dance"
    • Pages 160-162: Theodore Chanler, "All-American"
    • Pages 162-163: Nicolas Slonimsky, "The Gaiety and Sadness of Harris" [review of premiere of Roy Harris's Overture from the Gaiety and Sadness of the American Scene]
    • Pages 163-167: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "German Season Under the Crisis"
    • Pages 167-170: André Schaeffner, "Paris Season Under the Crisis"
    • Pages 170-171: Irving Kolodin, "A Book and Two Chapters on New Music" [reviews of Guido Pannian, Modern Composers; and Marion Bauer and Ethel Peyser, appendage to Music through the Ages]
    • Page 172: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1933 – June 1933)

  • Pages 175-181: Serge Tchemodanoff, "An Economic Approach to Music"
  • Pages 182-187: Mark Brunswick, "American Composers, X: Roger Huntington Sessions"
  • Pages 188-191: Virgil Thomson, "A Little About Movie Music"
  • Pages 192-196: Julius Hijman, "Dutch Contemporaries"
  • Pages 197-227: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 197-199: Israel Citkowitz, "Spring Finale in New York"
    • Pages 199-203: Paul Love, "Dance Premiere and Season's End"
    • Pages 203-207: Alfred V. Frankenstein, "Washington—Festival and Experiment"
    • Pages 207-209: Adelaide Hooker, "Crusading for Americans at Rochester"
    • Pages 209-213: X.T., "Kultur - Terror" [more on the effect of Nazism on the arts in Germany]
    • Pages 213-219: Eugen Braudo, "Concerts, Opera, Ballet in Russia Today"
    • Pages 219-223: H.T. Parker, "Boston's First Times"
    • Pages 223-225: A.F., "New Music in Chicago"
    • Pages 226-227: Irving Kolodin, "Composers About Composers" [review of Henry Cowell, ed., American Composers on American Music]
  • Page 228: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 11: November 1933 – June 1934

Number 1 (November 1933 – December 1933)

  • Pages 3-12: Roger Sessions, "Music and Nationalism: Some Notes on Dr. Göbbel's Letter to Furtwängler"
  • Pages 13-17: Virgil Thomson, "Most Melodious Tears"
  • Pages 18-23: Israel Citkowitz, "The Role of Heinrich Schenker"
  • Pages 24-27: Alfred Schlee, "Decline of the Prima Ballerina"
  • Pages 28-29: André Derain, [image designs for various stage works]
  • Pages 30-33: Frederick Jacobi, "Festival Impressions—Amsterdam, 1933"
  • Pages 34-52: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 34-40: Marc Blitzstein, "Talk - Music - Dance; New York, 1933"
    • Pages 40-42: Randall Thompson, "The Second Year at Yaddo"
    • Pages 42-46: Virgil Thomson, "Paris News"
    • Pages 46-49: Eugen Braudo, "Preparations in Moscow and Leningrad"
    • Pages 49-52: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Under the Swastika"
  • Page 53: Contributors to this Issue
  • Pages 54-56: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music

Number 2 (January 1934 – February 1934)

  • Page 58: Pablo Picasso, Décor for De Falla's El Sombrero [image]
  • Pages 59-64: Aaron Copland, "One Hundred and Fourteen Songs" [on Charles Ives's songs]
  • Pages 65-72: Alfred Einstein, "German Opera, Past and Present"
  • Pages 73-83: Walter Piston, "American Composers, XI: Roy Harris"
  • Page 84: Pablo Picasso, Costume Designs for De Falla's El Sombrero de Tres Picos [images]
  • Pages 85-88: Nikolai Lopatnikoff, "Finnish Youth Movement"
  • Pages 89-94: George Antheil, "Opera – A Way Out"
  • Pages 95-111: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 95-99: Guido Gatti, "Italy's Newest Recruits"
    • Pages 99-103: Marc Blitzstein, "Mid-Season in New York "
    • Pages 103-106: Alfred V. Frankenstein, "Chicago Premieres"
    • Pages 106-109: John Weatherwax, "On the Pacific Coast"
    • Pages 109-111: Irving Kolodin, "Books of the Month" [reviews of Marion Bauer, Twentieth Century Music, published by G.B. Putnam's Sons; and From Bach to Stravinsky—The History of Music by Its Foremost Critics, published by Norton]
  • Page 112: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1934 – April 1934)

  • Pages 115-120: Roger Sessions, "New Vistas in Musical Education"
  • Pages 121-127: Charles Seeger, "On Proletarian Music"
  • Pages 128-133: Irving Kolodin, "American Composers and the Phonograph"
  • Pages 134-137: Irving Kolodin, "A Tabulation of Contemporary Music on Records (As of March 1st, 1934)"
  • Pages 138-141: Gilbert Seldes, "Delight in the Theatre"
  • Pages 142-159: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 142-147: Theodore Chanler, "New York, 1934"
    • Pages 147-149: Alfred Schlee, "German Opera in Transition"
    • Pages 149-153: Paul Love, "Dance Invasion of America"
    • Pages 153-156: Gerth-Wolfgang Baruch, "Czech and Other Novelties in Prague"
    • Pages 156-159: Guido Gatti, "More Italian Opera"
  • Page 160: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1934 – June 1934)

  • Pages 167-187: Arnold Schönberg (translated by Adolph Weiss), "Problems of Harmony" [this article was first presented as a lecture at the Berlin Akademie der Künste]
  • Page 188: Drawing of Arnold Schoenberg by [Alfred Joseph] Frueh [image]
  • Pages 189-194: Lincoln Kirstein, "In Defense of the Ballet"
  • Page 195: Cipriano Osso, Settings for the Roman Premiere of Malipiero's Opera The Prodigal Son [images]
  • Pages 196-199: Paul Stefan, "Vienna Menaced But Not Doomed" [Nazi activity]
  • Pages 200-203: Raymond Petit, "Exotic and Contemporary Music"
  • Pages 204-223: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 204-209: Theodore Chanler, "New York, Spring, 1934"
    • Pages 209-213: Frederick Jacobi, "The I. S. C. M. at Florence"
    • Pages 213-216: Guido Gatti, "Malipiero and Pirandello at the Opera"
    • Pages 216-218: Alfred V. Frankenstein, "New Music and the Monte Carlo in Chicago"
    • Pages 218-221: Adelaide Hooker, "Rochester Sees 'Anthony Comstock'"
    • Pages 221-223: Irving Kolodin, "Recordings of the Last Months"
  • Page 224: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 12: November 1934 – June 1935

Number 1 (November 1934 – December 1934)

  • Page 2: Pablo Picasso, Drawing of Stravinsky [image]
  • Pages 3-7: André Schaeffner, "On Stravinsky, Early and Late"
  • Pages 8-11: Paul Bekker, "Dream at Twilight"
  • Page 12: Portrait of Paul Hindemith by Richard Heinisch [image]
  • Pages 13-17: Roger Sessions, "Hindemith's Mathis der Mahler"
  • Page 18: Nicolas Remisoff, Design for Aaron Copland's Ballet Hear Ye! Hear Ye! [image]
  • Pages 19-22: Alfredo Casella, "Modern Music in Modern Italy"
  • Pages 23-30: Dmitri Shostakovitch [Shostakovich], "My Opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk"
  • Pages 31-38: David Josef Bach, "New Music by Berg, Webern, Krenek"
  • Pages 39-48: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 39-41: Luis Sandi, "Music in Mexico, 1934"
    • Pages 41-43: Alfred V. Frankenstein, "Festival at Pittsfield"
    • Pages 43-44: Frederick Jacobi, "Nabokoff's Oratorio, Job"
    • Pages 44-47: Hans Gutman, "Literature, Music and the Ballet in Paris"
    • Pages 47-48: Arthur Mendel, "Orchestral Version of [Roy] Harris' Chorale"'
  • Page 49: Contributors to this Issue
  • Pages 50-52: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music

Number 2 (January 1935 – February 1935)

  • Page 54: Serge Soudeikine, Decor for Stravinsky's Ballet Mavra
  • Pages 55-61: Alfred Einstein, "Art and Technology"
  • Pages 62-68: George Antheil, "Composers in Movieland"
  • Pages 69-72: Nicolas Slonimsky,"Lazare Saminsky"
  • Pages 73-78: Frederick Jacobi, "Reflections on Ariadne and Mavra" [Richard Strauss]
  • Pages 79-81: Richard Gilbert, "Discs as a Medium for New Music"
  • Pages 82-85: Alfred Schlee, "Dancers in Germany Today"
  • Pages 86-96: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 86-89: Cecil Michener Smith, "Copland's Hear Ye, Hear Ye!; Ibert's Ballet"
    • Pages 89-90: Lazare Saminsky, "New Malipiero, New Harris and Weil[l]" [Malipiero's Symphony; Harris's Song for Occupations; Weill's Night Scenes]
    • Pages 90-92: Israel Citkowitz, "Choral Music, New York, January 1935"
    • Pages 92-94: Herbert Elwell, "Whithorne's Symphony; Josten's Serenade"
    • Pages 94-96: Aaron Copland, "Scherchen on Conducting and Ewen on Composers" [reviews of Herman Scherchen, Handbook of Conducting; and David Ewen, Composers of Today]
  • Page 97: Contributors to this Issue
  • Pages 98-100: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music

Number 3 (March 1935 – April 1935)

  • Page 102: Franz Rederer, Portrait of Alban Berg created February 1935 [image]
  • Pages 103-111: Willi Reich, "Lulu — The Text and Music"
  • Pages 112-115: Frederick Jacobi, "On Hearing Stravinsky's Perséphone
  • Pages 116-122: Arthur Farwell, "Pioneering for American Music"
  • Pages 123-126: Virgil Thomson, "Socialism at the Metropolitan"
  • Page: 127: Decor by Caspar Neher for the Dresden premiere of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny's opera Der Günstling" [images]
  • Pages 128-134: Marc Blitzstein, "Theatre-Music in Paris"
  • Pages 135-148: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 135-138: Randall Thompson, "Jacobi's Quartet and Sessions' Sonata" [Jacobi's String Quartet No. 2 and Sessions' first Piano Sonata]
    • Pages 138-141: Lehman Engel, "Les Ballets Américains"
    • Pages 141-143: Israel Citkowitz, "Symphonic Music, New York"
    • Pages 143-146: Arthur V. Berger, "Boston Hears American Works"
    • Page 146: L.E., "Dance Note"
    • Pages 146-148: Pitts Sanborn, "Music Ho! A Brilliant Survey" [review of Music Ho! by Constant Lambert]
  • Page 149: Contributors to this Issue
  • Pages 150-152: Index to Back Numbers of Modern Music

Number 4 (May 1935 – June 1935)

  • Pages 155-162: Alfred Einstein, "Music as Wish Fulfillment"
  • Pages 163-169: Colin McPhee, "The 'Absolute' Music of Bali"
  • Pages 170-178: Roger Sessions, "Heinrich Schenker's Contribution"
  • Page 179: Frederick Kiesler, Design for Act II of Malibran by Robert Russell Bennet [image]
  • Pages 180-186: Hans Eisler, "Reflections on the Future of the Composer"
  • Pages 187-207: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 187-192: Israel Citkowitz, "Symphonic and Chamber Music, New York"
    • Pages 192-194: Paul Bowles, "[Virgil] Thomson's Mass and Other Choral Works"
    • Pages 194-196: Marion Bauer, "Native Opera—Metropolitan and Juilliard"
    • Pages 196-200: Cecil Michener Smith, "Spring Festival, Washington, 1935"
    • Pages 200-201: C.E., "Americans in Chicago"
    • Pages 201-203: Adelaide V. Hooker, "Tenth Rochester Celebration"
    • Pages 203-204: Lehman Engel, "Dancers, Foreign and Home-Grown"
    • Pages 205-207: Richard Gilbert, "A 'Premiere' by Disc; More Modern Records"
    • Page 207: L.E., "Shostakovich 'Accompanies' a Film" [The Youth of Maxim
  • Page 208: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 13: November 1935 – June 1936

Number 1 (November 1935 – December 1935)

  • Pages 3-12: Alfred Einstein, "The Composer, the State and Today"
  • Pages 13-19: Virgil Thomson, "George Gershwin"
  • Pages 20-25: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Russia Revisited"
  • Pages 26-31: Edward Burlingame Hill, "Charles Martin Loeffler"
  • Pages 32-37: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Opera in Germany Today"
  • Pages 38-44: Louis Gruenberg, "Modern Youth at Prague, 1935"
  • Pages 45-58: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 45-47: Israel Citkowitz, "Schönberg's Suite for String Orchestra"
    • Pages 47-50: Marc Blitzstein, "Composers as Lecturers and in Concerts"
    • Pages 50-51: Eva Goldbeck, "A Thomson Soiree"
    • Pages 51-53: Frederick Jacobi, "Stravinsky Begins His Chronicles" [review of Volume 1 of Chroniques de ma Vie]
    • Pages 53-55: Lehman Engel, "Dancers in New York, Autumn, 1935"
    • Page 56: L.E., "Manifestoes of the Modern Dance" [brief review of Virginia Stewart, ed., Modern Dance]
    • Pages 56-58: Roger Sessions, "For the Layman" [review of Olga Samaroff, The Layman's Music Book, published by Norton]
  • Page 59: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1936 – February 1936)

  • Pages 3-11: Israel Citkowitz, "American Composers, XII: Walter Piston ― Classicist"
  • Pages 12-14: Lazare Saminsky, "The Composer and the Critic"
  • Pages 15-18: Ernst Toch, "Sound-Film and Music Theatre"
  • Pages 19-24: Grigori Schneerson, "The Changing Course of Russian Music"
  • Pages 25-28: Eva Goldbeck, "On Books About Music"
  • Pages 29-33: Adelaide F. Hooker, "Japanese Riddle ― East By West"
  • Pages 34-47: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 34-40: Marc Blitzstein, "New York Medley, Winter, 1935"
    • Pages 40-41: Lazare Saminsky, "The Work of Roger Sessions"
    • Pages 41-43: David Diamond, "Premiere in Rochester: [Bernard] Rogers' Frescoes"
    • Pages 43-45: Lehman Engel, "Dancers, European and American"
    • Pages 45-47: Aaron Copland, "Active Market in New Music Records"
  • Page 48: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1936 – April 1936)

  • Pages 3-13: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Vocal Style in the 20th Century"
  • Pages 14-21: Edwin Denby, "A Good Libretto"
  • Pages 22-28; Howard Hanson, "American Procession at Rochester"
  • Pages 29-34: Moses Smith, "Alban Berg ― Finale: A Requiem"
  • Pages 35-40: Carlos Chavez, "Revolt in Mexico"
  • Pages 41-59: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 41-46: Colin McPhee, "New York ― January, February, 1936"
    • Pages 46-49: Guido Gatti, "The Noblest Roman of Them All" [Gian Francesco Malipiero]
    • Pages 49-50: Frederick Jacobi, "Rubin Goldmark: A Tribute"
    • Pages 50-53: Lehman Engel, "New Laboratories and Gebrauchmusik"
    • Pages 53-55: Arthur V. Berger, "Rosenfeld's 'Experience and Criticism'"[review of Paul Rosenfeld, Discoveries of a Music Critic, published by Harcourt Brace]
  • Pages 55-58: Arthur W. Locke, "Festival at Hartford"
  • Pages 58-59: L.E., "New Winter Dances"
  • Page: 60: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1936 – June 1936)

  • Page 2: Natalia Gontcharova, Decors for Stravinsky's Les Noces
  • Pages 3-11: Aaron Copland, "Our Younger Generation: Ten Years Later"
  • Pages 12-17: Virgil Thomson, "Swing Music"
  • Pages 18-22: Otto Luening, "Musical Finds in the Southwest"
  • Pages 23-29: Marc Blitzstein, "Coming ― The Mass Audience!"
  • Pages 30-34: Carleton Sprague Smith, "The I.S.C.M. Meets ar Barcelona"
  • Pages 35-58: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 35-39: André Schaeffner, "Stravinsky' Two-Piano Concerto and Other Parisian Novelties"
    • Pages 39-42: Colin McPhee, "New York's Spring Season, 1936"
    • Pages 43-44: Israel Citkowitz, "Biblical Texts Set to Music"
    • Pages 44-46: Edwin Denby, "Revival of Diaghilev's Noces"
    • Pages 46-47: E.D., "Thomson Scores for a New Deal Film" [The Plow That Broke the Plains]
    • Pages 48-49: Herbert Elwell, "Premieres in Cleveland"
    • Pages 49-52: Goddard Lieberson, "Rochester's Sixth Festival"
    • Pages 52-53: Cecil Michener Smith, "Modern Works in Chicago"
    • Pages 53-56: George Antheil, "Good Russian Advice About Movie Music" [review of Leonid Sabaneyeff, Music for the Films, published by the Pitman Publishing Corporation]
    • Pages 56-57: E.D., "'Compiling' the Dance" [review of Lincoln Kirstein, Dance, published by G.P. Putnam]
    • Pages 57-58: Virgil Thomson, "The Official Stravinsky" [review of Stravinsky, Chroniques de ma Vie Volume II, published by Denoël et Steel]
  • Page 59: Contributors to this Issue
  • Page 60: Table of Contents: Volume XIII, Numbers 1-3

Volume 14: November 1936 – June 1937

Number 1 (November 1936 – December 1936)

  • Pages 3-11: Alfred Einstein, "National and Universal Music"
  • Pages 12-17: Davidson Taylor, "To Order, For Radio"
  • Pages 18-23: Roy D. Welch, "The College, the Composer, and Music"
  • Pages 24-27: Felix Roderic Labunski, "A New Generation in Poland"
  • Pages 28-38: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 28-31: Colin McPhee, "New York, Autumn of 1936"
    • Pages 31-33: David Diamond, "Paradise Lost and the Fourteenth of July" [includes a review of Igor Markevitch's oratorio Le Paradis Perdu]
    • Pages 33-36: Isadore Freed, "Forum Portraits: Saminsky, Josten, Finney"
    • Pages 36-37: Robert Sabin, "Recording Premieres at Rochester" [including George F. McKay's Sinfonietta No. 2, Erik Leidzen's Fugue with Chorale, David Diamond's Psalm for Orchestra, and Victor Alessandro's and Robert McBride's Rhapsody on Mexican Themes]
    • Pages 37-38: Marion Bauer, "More Pessimism by Cecil Gray" [review of Predicaments or Music and the Future by Cecil Gray, published by Oxford University Press]
    • Page 38: Marion Bauer, "Composite Stravinsky" [brief review of Merle Armitage, ed., Stravinsky, published by Schirmer]
  • Pages 39-42: Scores and Records (reviewed by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 42-46: In the Theatre
    • Pages 42-44: Frederick Jacobi, "WPA Shows with Music"
    • Pages 44-46: Marc Blitzstein, "Weill Scores for Johnny Johnson"
  • Pages 46-49: On the Hollywood Front (reviews by George Antheil)
  • Pages 49-53: With the Dancers (reviews by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 53-54: Over the Air (remarks by Cecil Michener Smith)
  • Page 55: Contributors to this Issue
  • Page 56: Table of Contents, Volume 13, Nos. 1-4

Number 2 (January 1937 – February 1937)

  • Page 58: Richard Heinisch, Portrait of Paul Hindemith [image]
  • Pages 59-66: Roger Sessions, "The New Musical Horizon"
  • Pages 67-75: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Hindemith Today"
  • Pages 76-81: Irma Goebel Labastille, "Americanismo Musical"
  • Pages 82-86: George Antheil, "Breaking Into the Movies"
  • Pages 87-97: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 87-89: Colin McPhee, "Winter Season, New York, 1936"
    • Pages 90-92: Elliott Carter, "The New York Season - (Continued), 1937"
    • Pages 92-93: Goddard Lieberson, "More One-Man Shows"
    • Pages 93-95: Gerald Strang, "Moderns on the Pacific Coast"
    • Pages 95-96: Richard Sabin, "Works by Jacobi, Diamond, McBride" [Jacobi's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Diamond's Psalm for Orchestra, and McBride's Mexican Rhapsody etc.]
    • Pages 96-97: Cecil Michener Smith, "Chicago Novelties"
  • Pages 98-101: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 101-105: In the Theatre (reviews by Virgil Thomson of Erika Mann's The Pepper-Mill, Kurt Weill's music for The Eternal Road, and Paul Bowles's music for Dr. Faustus]
  • Pages 105-108: On the Hollywood Front (reviews by George Antheil)
  • Pages 108-112: With the Dancers (reviews by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 113-114: Over the Air (remarks by Cecil Michener Smith)
  • Page 115: Contributors to this Issue
  • Page 116: Table of Contents, Volume 13, Nos. 1-4/Volume 14, No. 1

Number 3 (March 1937 – April 1937)

  • Pages 119-123: Alfred Einstein, "Will Modern Music Endure?"
  • Pages 124-131: David Diamond, "American Composers, XIII: Frederick Jacobi"
  • Pages 132-135: Willi Reich, "Swiss Panorama"
  • Pages 136-142: Hans Nathan, "The Viennese Lied, 1910-1937"
  • Pages 143-146: Lincoln Kirstein, "Working With Stravinsky"
  • Pages 147-166: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 147-154: Elliott Carter, "Late Winter, New York, 1937"
    • Pages 154-157: Goddard Lieberson, "Concerts Free and Paid For"
    • Pages 157-158: Arthur V. Berger, "Boston Hears a New Russian Work" [Yuri Shaporin's Symphony in C Minor]
    • Pages 159-161: Ray Brown, "Saminsky's Pueblo and Other News from Washington" [Saminsky's Pueblo: A Moon Epic]
    • Pages 161-162: Cecil Michener Smith, "New Music in Chicago"
    • Pages 162-164: Jerzy Fitelberg, "Parisian Novelties"
    • Pages 164-166: Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Chavez on Music and Electricity" [review of Carlos Chavez, Toward a New Music, published by Norton]
  • Pages 167-170: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 170-173: In the Theatre (Virgil Thomson on Robert Simon's and Albert Stoessel's Garrick, and remarks on Juilliard operas)
  • Pages 173-176: With the Dancers
    • Pages 173-175: Edwin Denby on Dollar and Balanchine's Classic Ballet
    • Pages 175-176: Elliott Carter on Catherine Littlefield's production of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty
  • Pages 176-178: Over the Air (reviews by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Page 179: Contributors to this Issue
  • Page 180: Table of Contents: Volume 13, Nos. 1-4/Volume 14, Nos. 1-2

Number 4 (May 1937 – June 1937)

  • Pages 183-188: Kurt Weill, "The Future of Opera in America"
  • Pages 189-192: Edwin Gerschefski, "To the Brass Band"
  • Pages 193-197: Mark Brunswick, "Suicide in Vienna"
  • Pages 198-199: Frederick Jacobi, "Homage to Arthur Foote"
  • Pages 200-203: Ernst Krenek, "The New Music and Today's Theatre"
  • Pages 204-207: Nicolai Lopatnikoff, "England's Young Composers"
  • Pages 208-228: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 208-215: Cecil Michener Smith, "Hindemith and the Coolidge Festival"
    • Pages 215-217: Elliott Carter, "Season's End in New York"
    • Pages 217-220: Goddard Lieberson, "Spring Fancies, 1937"
    • Pages 221-223: Frederick Yeiser, "Whithorne's Symphony; Dett's Moses" [Emerson Whithorne's Second Symphony, and Nathaniel Dett's The Ordering of Moses
    • Pages 223-224: Gerald Strang, "Schönberg, Mahler, and Others in Los Angeles"
    • Pages 224-225: Cecil Michener Smith, 'What Chicago Needs"
    • Pages 225-228: Robert Sabin, "American Festival at Rochester, 1937"
  • Page 229: Scene Sketches for Marc Blitzstein's opera The Cradle Will Rock [images]
  • Pages 230-233: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 233-237: In the Theatre (reviews by Virgil Thomson)
  • Pages 237-239: With the Dancers (reviews and remarks by Elliott Carter
  • Pages 239-240: Films Seen in New York (reviews by Virgil Thomson)
  • Pages 241-242: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Page 243: Contributors to this Issue
  • Page 244: Tables of Contents for Vol. 13, Nos. 1-4 and Vol. 14, Nos. 1-3

Volume 15: November 1937 – June 1938

Number 1 (November 1937 – December 1937)

  • Page 2: George Gershwin as Seen By Alfred Frueh [drawings]
  • Pages 3-7: Frederick Jacobi, "The Future of Gershwin"
  • Pages 8-12: Kurt List, "Lulu, After the Premiere"
  • Pages 13-16: Goddard Lieberson, "Britannia Rules the Air"
  • Pages 17-23: Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Electicity Becomes Music: Introducing The 'Emino'"
  • Pages 24-26: Raymond Petit, "Roussel—Ave, Vale"
  • Pages 27-44: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 27-32: Lazare Saminsky, "Europe Takes Fresh Bearings"
    • Pages 32-36: Mark Brunswick, "Paris, 1937—The I.S.C.M."
    • Pages 36-37: Elliott Carter, "Opening Notes, New York"
    • Pages 37-40: Alma Goudy, "Coolidge Fiesta in Mexico"
    • Pages 40-44: Alfred Einstein, "Internationalism à la Venice and Florence"
  • Pages 45-48: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland) [here with some interesting remarks on Mahler, Sibelius, and others]
  • Pages 48-51: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
  • Pages 51-53: In the Theatre (reviews by Elliott Carter) [reviews of Milhaud's Le Pauvre Matelot, Ibert's Angélique, Samuel Barlow's music for Amphitryon 38 etc.]
  • Pages 53-55: Over the Air (reviews by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Pages 55-56: With the Dancers (remarks by Elliott Carter)
  • Pages 57-67: Recent Books
    • Pages 57-63: Roger Sessions, "Hindemith on Theory" [review of Unterweisung im Tonsatz by Paul Hindemith, published by B. Schott's Söhne]
    • Pages 63-65: Marion Bauer, "Hither and Yon in the 20th Century" [review of Twentieth Century Composers by David Ewen, published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company]
    • Pages 65-67: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Memorial to Berg" [review of Alban Berg by Willi Reich et al., published by Herbert Reichner Verlag]
  • Page 68: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1938 – February 1938)

  • Page 70: Clarence A. Brodeur, pen-and-ink sketch of Nadia Boulanger [image]
  • Pages 71-75: Carlos Chavez, "The Function of the Concert"
  • Pages 76-80: Herbert Elwell, "Nadia Boulanger: A Tribute"
  • Pages 81-85: Marc Blitzstein, "On Writing Music for the Theatre"
  • Pages 86-91: Davidson Taylor, "Why Not Try the Air?"
  • Pages 92-95: Temporary Executive Board of the American Composers' Alliance, "The Composers Organize: A Proclamation"
  • Pages 96-108: Forecast and Review
    • Page 96: Elliott Carter, "Homage to Ravel"
    • Pages 96-103: E.C., "Vacation Novelties, New York"
    • Pages 103-106: Leonard Bernstein, "Season of Premieres in Boston"
    • Pages 106-108: [Unsigned], "New Works for the Mid-West"
  • Pages 109-111: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 112-114: In the Theatre (remarks by Virgil Thomson) [a response to Alfred Einstein and notes on Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock]
  • Pages 115-117: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Pages 117-118: On the Hollywood Front (brief reviews by George Antheil)
  • Pages 118-122: With the Dancers (report by Elliott Carter)
  • Pages 123-131: Recent Books
    • Pages 123-128: Roger Sessions, "Exposition by Krenek" [review of Ṻber Neue Musik by Ernst Krenek, published by Verlag der Ringbuchhandling]
    • Pages 128-130: William Schuman, "A Novel One-Volume Encyclopedia" [review of Music Since 1900 by Nicolas Slonimsky, published by Norton]
    • Pages 130-131: Herbert Weinstock, "Neither Fish, Flesh Nor Fowl" [review of La Musica Contemporanea by Herbert Fleischer, published by Ulrico Hoepli)
  • Page 132: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1938 – April 1938)

  • Pages 135-139: Alfred Einstein, "Cycle of Three Centuries"
  • Pages 140-144: Charles C. Cushing, "Maurice Ravel: 1875-1937"
  • Pages 145-152: Roger Sessions, "To Revitalize Opera"
  • Pages 153-159: Paul Rosenfeld, "The Newest American Composers"
  • Pages 160-166: Virgil Thomson, "Swing Again"
  • Pages 167-178: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 167-171: Elliott Carter, "Orchestras and Audiences; Winter, 1938"
    • Pages 171-174: Lazare Saminsky, "Electric Marvels in Pittsburgh" [new electronic instruments]
    • Pages 174-176: Grigori Schneerson, "Shostakovich Rehabilitated" [on the January premiere of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony in Moscow]
    • Pages 176-178: Cecil Michener Smith, "Composers Of and In Chicago"
  • Pages 179-182: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 183-184: In the Theatre (review of Paul Bowles's opera Denmark Vesey by Virgil Thomson)
  • Pages 184-187: With the Dancers (Edwin Denby, "Balanchine Again' Debut of the Caravan")
  • Pages 187-189: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
  • Pages 189-191: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Pages 192-199: Recent Books
    • Pages 192-197: Roger Sessions, "Escape by Theory" [review of Der Freie Satz: Das Erste Lehrbuch der Musik by Heinrich Schenker, published by Universal Edition]
    • Pages 197-198: Edward Burlingame Hill, "Composers in America" [review of Composers in America: Bibliographical Sketches of Living Composers With a Record of Their Works by Claire Reis, published by The Macmillan Company]
    • Page 199: Elliott Carter, "Musical Reactions—Bold and Otherwise" [brief review of Of Men and Music by Deems Taylor, published by Simon and Schuster]
  • Page 200: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1938 – June 1938)

  • Page 202: Roman Clemens, Decors for Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler [images]
  • Pages 203-208: "Vienna – Vale, Ave: A Letter from Roger Sessions"
  • Pages 209-215: Raymond Hall, "The Macbeth of Bloch"
  • Pages 216-221: John A. Gutman, "Casting the Film Composer"
  • Pages 222-227: William Schuman, "Unconventional Case History"
  • Pages 228-243: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 228-233: Elliott Carter, "Season's End, New York, Spring, 1938"
    • Pages 233-235: Kurt List, "Political Art—Notes on Krenek's Karl V"
    • Pages 235-238: Arthur Cohn, "How News Comes to Philadelphia"
    • Pages 238-239: Pauline Konstantin, "Third Service for the Temple"
    • Pages 239-241: Leonard Bernstein, "Boston Carries On"
    • Pages 241-243: Elliott Carter, "Recent Festival in Rochester"
  • Pages 244-248: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 248-251: Theatre and Dance (Edwin Denby, "World's Fair and Other Shows)
  • Pages 251-254: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
  • Pages 255-256: Over the Air (remarks and reviews by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Pages 257-263: Recent Books
    • Pages 257-262: Roger Sessions, "The Function of Theory" [discussion of three volumes: Paul Hindemith, Unterweisung im Tonsatz; Ernst Krenek, Ueber die Neue Musik; and Heinrich Schenker, Der Freie Satz]
    • Pages 262-263: Ernest Lubin, "Tovey's Analysis" [review of Essays in Musical Analysis Volume 5 by Donald Tovey, published by Oxford University Press]
  • Page 264: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 16: November 1938 – June 1939

Number 1 (November 1938 – December 1938)

  • Page 2: Jan Tichacek, Set Design for Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre production of Georg Büchner's drama Danton's Tod [image]
  • Pages 3-9: Mark Brunswick, "After Munich"
  • Page 10: Kathryn Nason, portrait of Edward Burlingame Hill [image]
  • Pages 11-16: George Henry Lovett Smith, "American Composers, XIV: Edward Burlingame Hill"
  • Pages 17-22: Virgil Thomson, "French Landscape With Figures"
  • Pages 23-27: Ernst Krenek, "The Transplanted Composer"
  • Pages 28-32: Hans Heinsheimer, "Challenge of the New Audience"
  • Pages 33-49: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 33-38: Elliott Carter, "Coolidge Crusade; WPA; New York Season"
    • Pages 38-41: Arno Huth, "Forbidden Opus—Protestant" [on Hindemith's Mathis der Mahler]
    • Pages 41-44: H.H. Stuckenschmidt, "Forbidden Opus—Catholic" [on Krenek operatic music]
    • Pages 44-49: Pitts Sanborn, "Strauss in Munich; Blum in Paris"
  • Pages 50-54: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 54-58: In the Theatre (remarks by John Gutman) [discusses theater music by Weill, Engel, and Blitzstein]
  • Pages 58-61: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 62-65: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
  • Pages 65-69: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Pages 70-71: Recent Books
    • Pages 70-71: Marion Bauer, "The Last Hundred Years" [review of Gerald Abraham, A Hundred Years of Music, published by Alfred Knopf]
  • Page 72: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1939 – February 1939)

  • Pages 75-81: Adolfo Salazar, "America, North and South"
  • Pages 82-85: Henry Pleasants, "First-Time Fever" [on premieres and subsequent performances of new works]
  • Page 86: Mahonri Young, Portrait of Arthur Shepherd [image]
  • Pages 87-93: Denoe Leedy, "American Composers XV: Arthur Shepherd"
  • Pages 94-98: Davidson Taylor, "Long Range Policy for Radio"
  • Pages 99-121: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 99-103: Elliott Carter, "Once Again Swing; Also 'American Music'" [bemoans critical ignorance about new music, and the lack of performances of it]
    • Pages 104-109: Virgil Thomson, "More From Paris"
    • Pages 109-112: Paul Rosenfeld, "Ives' Concord Sonata"
    • Pages 112-114: Arno Huth, "Triumph of Reaction, Belgium, 1938"
    • Pages 114-116: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Boston News"
    • Pages 116-119: Arthur Cohn, "Americans in the Fleisher Collection"
    • Pages 119-121: Joan Pack, "Youth Movement"
    • Page 121: Q------N, "Czech Twilight"
  • Pages 122-125: Scores and Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 125-128: In the Theatre (remarks by John Gutman) [treats among other things Milhaud's Christophe Colomb and Cole Porter's music for Leave It to Me]
  • Pages 128-130: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [discusses La Argentinita, George Balanchine's choreography for The Boys from Syracuse, etc.]
  • Pages 130-133: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil) [praises Adolphe Borchard's music for The Story of a Cheat, etc.]
  • Pages 133-134: Over the Air (remarks by Goddard Lieberson)
  • Pages 135-139: Recent Books
    • Pages 135-137: William Schuman, "Layman's Guide and Student Opera" [review of What To Listen For in Music by Aaron Copland; and The Second Hurricane by Aaron Copland, score published by C.C. Birchard and Co.]
    • Pages 137-139: Roger Sessions, "A Lesson From Mozart" [review of Mozart: the Man and his Works by W.J. Turner, published by Alfred Knopf]
  • Page 140: Notes on Contributors

Number 3 (March 1939 – April 1939)

  • Page 142: Robert Edmond Jones, Preliminary Sketch for Douglas Moore's and Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster [image]
  • Pages 143-149: Charles Louis Seeger, "Grass Roots for American Composers"
  • Pages 150-155: Alfred Einstein, "Universality and Music Today"
  • Pages 156-159: Stefan Wolpe, "Music, Old and New, in Palestine"
  • Pages 160-167: Colin McPhee, "The Decline of the East"
  • Pages 168-171: Ceicao de Barros-Barreto, "Brazil Mirrors its Own Nature"
  • Pages 172-184: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 172-179: Elliott Carter, "The Case of Mr. Ives" and "Further Notes on the Winter Season"
    • Pages 180-182: Paul Rosenfeld, "Lukas Foss - A New Talent"
    • Pages 182-184: Leonard Bernstein, "The Latest From Boston"
  • Pages 185-188: New Records (reviews by Aaron Copland)
  • Pages 188-190: In the Theatre (reviews by John Gutman) [includes material on Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, Noel Coward's Set to Music, etc.]
  • Pages 190-194: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 194-196: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil)
  • Pages 197-199: Recent Books
    • Pages 197-199: George Herzog, "Music Cyclopedias–New Style" [review of the Oxford Companion to Music by Percy A. Scholes, published by Oxford University Press; and The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians edited by Oscar Thompson, published by Dodd, Mead and Company]
  • Page 200: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1939 – June 1939)

  • Page 202: Decors for Railroads on Parade, set to music by Kurt Weill [images]
  • Pages 203-213: Fugitivus [pseudonym of a German critic], "Inside Germany" [a description of musical life inside Nazi Germany]
  • Pages 214-219: Paul Rosenfeld, "Variation on the Grass Roots Theme" [a response to Charles Louis Seeger's piece in the previous issue]
  • Pages 220-224: Humphrey Searle, "Growing Pains in England"
  • Pages 225-228: Minna Lederman, "Fan Mail for Mr. [Grover] Whalen"
  • Pages 229-237: Virgil Thomson, "More and More from Paris"
  • Pages 238-263: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 238-243: Elliott Carter, "O Fair World of Music!" [argues that there is much worth hearing outside of the standard repertoire, and discusses recent performance examples]
    • Pages 243-249: Emilia Elsner, "Troubled Warsaw is Host to the Nations"
    • Pages 249-254: E.C., "Season of Hindemith and Americans" [Hindemith performances, Roy Harris's Third Symphony, etc.]
      • Page 254: Colin McPhee, "Further Seasonal Note" [on a choir festival directed by Lazare Saminsky at Temple Emanuel]
    • Pages 254-256: John N. Burk, "Bloch Revisits Boston"
    • Pages 256-259: Cecil Michener Smith, "Chicago Moves Forward" [on the 1938-1939 season and its "most varied experience in contemporary music of past years"]
      • Page 259: René Devries, "Jacobi's Concerto" [Frederick Jacobi's Violin Concerto]
    • Pages 259-261: Henry Pleasants, "New Music for Philadelphia" [review of Nicolai Berezowsky's Toccata, Variations and Finale etc.]
    • Pages 261-263: Moses Smith, "Bowdoin College Series" [remarks on performances of Copland's Piano Variations, Robert McBride's Hot-Shot Divertimento, and the premiere of Walter Piston's Sonata for Violin and Piano]
  • Pages 264-267: Scores and Records (reviews by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 268-271: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [particularly positive remarks on the Broadway musical Mexicana]
  • Pages 271-275: Over the Air (remarks by David Diamond) [includes substantial material on Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief]
  • Pages 276-278: In the Theatre (remarks by John Gutman)
  • Pages 278-280: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil) [includes material on Prokofiev's music for Alexander Nevsky, Georges Auric's music for The Love of Paris, and mention of Stokowski beginning work on what would become Disney's Fantasia]
  • Pages 281-287: Recent Books
    • Pages 281-285: Paul Bowles, "Anatomy of Jazz" [review of Jazz, Hot and Hybrid by Winthrop Sargeant, published by Arrow Editions; and American Jazz Music by Wilder Hobson, published by Norton]
    • Pages 285-287: Kurt List, "The Social Approach" [review of Music and Society by Elie Siegmeister, published by the Critic's Group Press]
  • Page 288: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 17: October 1939 – June 1940

Number 1 (October 1939 – November 1939)

  • Page 2: Henri Matisse, "Head of Dancer" Sketch [image]
  • Pages 3-9: Alfred Einstein, "War, Nationalism, Tolerance"
  • Pages 10-17: Burle Marx, "Brazilian Portrait—Villa-Lobos"
  • Pages 18-24: Paul Rosenfeld, "Folksong and Culture-Politics"
  • Pages 25-28: Arthur Mendel, "The Quintet of Roy Harris"
  • Pages 29-33: Isadore Freed, "The Teacher Needs the Composer"
  • Pages 34-51: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 34-38: Elliott Carter, "The New Season Opens"
    • Pages 38-40: Humphrey Searle, "News From Britain"
    • Pages 40-41: Arno Huth, "Letter from France"
    • Pages 41-43: Arno Huth, "Switzerland Carries On"
    • Pages 43-45: George Henry Lovett Smith, "American Festival in Boston"
    • Pages 45-46: Paul Bowles, "Negro and Non-Negro Music"
    • Pages 47-48: Frederick Jacobi Jr., "Harvard Soirée"
    • Pages 48-49: Henry Pleasants, "Philadelphia Greets Thompson" [review of performance of Randall Thompson's Second Symphony]
    • Pages 49-51: George Herzog, "Musicology Steps Out" [report on the International Congress of the American Musicological Society]
  • Pages 52-54: Scores and Records (reviews by Colin McPhee) [recordings of music by Chavez, Griffes, Ives, Ravel, and others; scores by Bloch, Harries, Sowerby etc.]
  • Page 55: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
  • Pages 56-60: With the Dances (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 60-62: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [on film scores by Honegger for Harvest, Copland for The City, etc.]
  • Pages 63-66: New Books
    • Pages 63-65: Aaron Copland, "Thomson's Musical Taste" [review of The State Of Music by Virgil Thomson]
    • Pages 65-66: Ray Brown, "Saminsky Revises Music of Our Day" [review of Music of Our Day by Lazare Saminsky, published by Thomas Y. Crowell]
  • Page 67: Invitation to Readers [to submit correspondence that will be included in future issues]
  • Page 68: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1940 – February 1940)

  • Pages 71-75: Roger Sessions, "On the American Future" [letter]
  • Pages 76-80: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Caturla of Cuba" [Alejandro García Caturla]
  • Pages 81-83: Frederick Jacobi, "Bloch's Violin Concerto"
  • Pages 84-86: Henry Pleasants, "New Note on a Familiar Theme" [discusses the balance between orchestras programming old and new repertoire]
  • Pages 87-92: Carlos Chavez, "Music for the Radio"
  • Pages 93-109: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 93-101: Elliott Carter, "American Music in the New York Scene" [contains remarks on Roy Harris's Third Symphony, and various works by Roger Sessions, Walter Piston, and Edward Burlingame Hill, etc.]
    • Pages 101-103: Guido M. Gatti, "A Strenuous Italian Season"
    • Pages 103-104: Paul Bowles, "From Spirituals to Swing"
    • Pages 104-106: Herbert Elwell, "Cleveland First-Times" [remarks on the world premiere of William Walton's Violin Concerto, etc.]
    • Pages 106-108: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Boston Looks West" [significant remarks on Nicolai Lopatnikoff's Second Symphony, Bloch's Violin Concerto, etc.]
    • Pages 108-109: Humphrey Searle, "British Pickp-Up"
  • Pages 110-113: Scores and Records (reviews by Colin McPhee) [Hindemith, Bax, Shostakovich, etc.]
  • Pages 113-115: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [discusses film scores by Toch, Kabalevsky, and others]
  • Pages 115-116: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
  • Pages 116-120: With the Dancers (remarks by David Diamond) [discusses ballet music by Copland, Ray Green, Paul Nordoff, Henry Brant, etc.]
  • Pages 121-125: New Books
    • Pages 121-123: Marion Bauer, "Krenek on Music Here and Now" [review of Music Here and Now by Ernst Krenek and translated by Barthold Fles, published by Norton)
    • Pages 123-125: Paul Rosenfeld, "An Idea for a Biography" [reviews of Men and Music by Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock, published by Simon and Schuster; and How Music Grew, revised edition, by Marion Bauer and Ethel Peyser, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons]
  • Page 126: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1940 – April 1940)

  • Page 130: Baccio M. Bacci, Decors for a Contemporary Opera: Volo di Notte by Luigi Dallapiccola [image]
  • Pages 131-140: Henry Pleasants and Tibor Serly, "Bartok's Historic Contribution"
  • Pages 141-147: Aaron Copland, "Second Thoughts on Hollywood"
  • Pages 148-153: Ernst Krenek, "Teaching Composition"
  • Pages 154-159: Paul Bowles, "Calypso – Music of the Antilles"
  • Pages 160-163: Paul Nettl, "Czechs at Home and Far Away"
  • Pages 164-178: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 164-170: Elliott Carter, "Stravinsky and Other Moderns in 1940"
    • Pages 171-173: Cecil Michener Smith, "Contemporary Music, Chicago Style"
    • Pages 173-174: Ray Brown, "Villa-Lobos in Washington"
    • Pages 174-175: Henry Pleasants, "Philadelphia Premiere of Bartok Work" [Deux Images, and Edward Burlingame Hill's Sinfonietta for String Orchestra]
    • Pages 175-176: Humphrey Searle, "More About Music in Britain"
    • Pages 176-178: Arno Huth, "Swiss War-Season"
  • Pages 179-181: Records and Scores (reviews by Colin McPhee) [treats Hindemith's Four-Hand Piano Sonata, McBride pops, Leuning's Suite for Soprano and Flute, Chavez's Ten Preludes for Piano, etc.]
  • Pages 181-184: Theatre Music (reviews by Marc Blitzstein) [some shows covered: Too Many Girls, Pins and Needles, Night Music, Reunion in New York, etc.]
  • Pages 184-187: On the Film Front (reviews of film music by Paul Bowles) [treats scores by Luis Gruenberg and Alfred Newman, etc.]
  • Pages 187-191: With the Dancers (remarks by Peter Lindamood)
  • Pages 191-193: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
  • Pages 194-199: Recent Books
    • Pages 194-196: Minna Lederman, "Star-Spangled Orchestras" [review of America's Symphony Orchestras by Margaret Grant and Herman S. Hettinger, published by Norton]
    • Pages 196-197: Marc Blitzstein, "Pierrot Lunaire in Lindy's" [review of A Smattering of Ignorance by Oscar Levant, published by Doubleday Doran in 1940]
    • Pages 197-199: William Schuman, "Taylor-Made Topics" [review of The Well-Tempered Listener by Deems Taylor, published by Simon & Schuster]
  • Page 200: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1940 – June 1940)

  • Page 202: Sketch of Carlos Chavez by Miguel Covarrubias [image]
  • Pages 203-209: Virgil Thomson, "Paris, April 1940" [letter]
  • Pages 210-213: Ross Lee Finney, "Piston's Violin Sonata"
  • Pages 214-220: Donald Duff, "Flamenco"
  • Pages 221-225: Frederick Jacobi, "In Defense of Modernism"
  • Pages 226-232: Paul Rosenfeld, "'Americanism' in American Music"
  • Pages 233-236: Marion Bauer, "Stefan Wolpe"
  • Pages 237-259: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 237-241: Elliott Carter, "The Changing Scene, New York 1940"
    • Pages 241-245: Harrison Kerr, "More on the Spring Season"
    • Pages 245-246: Colin McPhee, "South America Once More"
    • Pages 246-250: Arno Huth, "Dance of Death in Basle" [premiere of Honegger's La Danse des Morts etc.]
    • Pages 250-254: Charles Seeger, "New Works at the Coolidge Festival" [Malipiero's Quattro vecchi canzoni; Pizzetti's Epithalamium; Fitelberg's Sonata for Two Violins and Two Pianos; Harris's Viola Quintet; and Berezowsky's Sextet for Three Violins, Two Violas and Violincello]
    • Pages 254-255: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Boston Premieres" [American premieres of Hindemith's Viola Concerto and Prokofiev's Cello Concerto etc.]
    • Pages 255-258: Arthur Cohn, "Americans at Rochester" [music by Bernard Rogers, Kent Kennan, Frederick Jacobi, Roy Harris, etc.]
    • Pages 258-259: Humphrey Searle, "Music, Dance, Theatre in England"
  • Pages 260-263: Records and Scores (reviews by Colin McPhee) [Hanson's Romantic Symphony, Piston's The Incredible Flutist, Ravel, Sibelius, etc.]
  • Pages 263-265: Over the Air (remarks by Conlon Nancarrow)
    • Pages 263-264: "Swing, Jazz, Boogie-Woogie"
    • Page 265: "Back to the 'Long-Hairs'"
  • Pages 265-267: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [brief treatment of Waxman's score for Rebecca, Janssen's score for Lights Out in Europe, Milhaud's score for The Mayor's Dilemma, and Kosma's music for The Human Beast]
  • Pages 267-270: With the Dancers (remarks by Peter Lindamood) [discussion of Zunguru by Asadata Dafora, etc.]

Volume 18: November 1940 – June 1941

Number 1 (November 1940 – December 1940)

  • Page 2: Darius Milhaud, Self Portrait (1940) [image]
  • Pages 3-7: Douglas Moore, "Our Lyric Theatre"
  • Pages 8-11: Roy Harris, "Folksong—American Big Business"
  • Pages 12-14: Paul Bowles, "Sylvestre Revueltas"
  • Pages 15-17: Virgil Thomson, "Chaplin Scores"
  • Pages 18-21: Aaron Copland, "The Composers Get Wise"
  • Pages 22-26: Alfred Einstein, "Affinities of the Ages"
  • Pages 27-30: Paul Rosenfeld, "Griffes on Grand Street"
  • Pages 31-36: Lazare Saminsky, "In the Argentine"
  • Pages 37-54: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 37-41: Donald Fuller, "New York, 1940 – The Season Opens"
    • Pages 41-43: Colin McPhee, "Jungles of Brazil" [report on the Festival of Brazilian Music and the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos]
    • Pages 43-44: Remi Gassmann, "Milhaud, Carpenter, Harris in Chicago"
    • Pages 45-46: Darius Milhaud, "Paris Opera Just Before the Occupation"
    • Pages 46-49: Henry Cowell, "Drums Along the Pacific"
    • Pages 49-52: Arthur Cohn, "New Works at Yaddo" [i.e. Richard Donovan's Serenade, David Diamond's Concerto for Chamber Orchestra, etc.]
    • Pages 52-54: John Kirkpatrick, "Bennington's Festival of the Arts"
  • Pages 55-58: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 58-61: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [some of the film scores commented upon: Richard Hageman - The Long Voyage Home, Marc Blitzstein - Valley Town, Douglas Moore - Power and the Land, Fred Stewart - Children Must Learn etc.]
  • Pages 61-64: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [treats Balanchine's Poker Game etc.]
  • Pages 64-65: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [treats broadcasts of works by Villa-Lobos, Henry Cowell, Ernest Bloch, Constant Lambert, etc.]
  • Pages 66-67: Recent Books
    • Page 66: Henry Cowell, "Music in History" [review of Music in History by Howard D. McKinney and W.R. Anderson, published by the American Book Company]
    • Pages 66-67: Edwin Denby, "A Dancer Who Thinks" [review of Serge Diaghilev by Serge Lifar, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons]
  • Page 68: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1941 – February 1941)

  • Page 70: Howard Bay, "No for an Answer," Project for Marc Blitzstein's Opera [image]
  • Pages 71-75: Benjamin Britten, "England and the Folk-Art Problem"
  • Pages 76-80: Frederick Jacobi, "America's Popular Music"
  • Pages 81-83: Samuel L.M. Barlow, "Blitzstein's Answer" [treats Marc Blitzstein's No For an Answer]
  • Pages 84-89: Martha Alter, "American Composers, XVI: Howard Hanson"
  • Pages 90-97: Columbia University's Office of Radio Research, "Making A Hit"
  • Pages 98-99: Henry Cowell, "Roldan and Caturla of Cuba"
  • Pages 100-106: Paul Nettl, "Alexandrian America"
  • Pages 107-123: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 107-113: Donald Fuller, "Mid-Season, New York, 1940-41"
    • Pages 113-114: Herbert Elwell, "[Roy]Harris' Folksong Symphony"
    • Pages 114-116: Remi Gassmann, "The New Stravinsky"
    • Pages 116-118: Arno Huth, "Paris – By Grace of Goering"
    • Pages 118-120: Grosvenor Cooper, "Three Milhauds"
    • Pages 120-121: Henry Pleasants, "Schönberg, Shostakovich, Stokowski"
    • Pages 121-123: Arno Huth, "Swiss Premiere – Honegger's Nicolas de Flue"
  • Pages 124-125: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 125-127: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow)
  • Pages 128-131: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 131-133: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills)
  • Pages 133-134: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles)
  • Pages 135-139: Recent Books
    • Pages 135-137: Minna Lederman, "Radio Blueprint" [review of Radio and the Printed Page by Paul Lazarsfeld; published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce in 1940]
    • Pages 137-139: Alan Lomax, "Songs of the American Folk" [review of A Treasury of American Song by Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister; published by Howell, Soskin and Company in 1940]
  • Page 140: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1941 – April 1941)

  • Page 142: Costume Designs by José Guadalupe Posada for Silvestre Revueltas's ballet La Coronela [images]
  • Pages 143-146: Ernst Krenek, "The Survival of Tradition"
  • Pages 147-154: Paul Rosenfeld, "Language and Modern Music"
  • Pages 155-158: Nicolas Slonimsky, "Composers of Peru"
  • Pages 159-163: Edward T. Cone, "Roger Sessions' String Quartet"
  • Pages 164-167: Karol Rathaus, "To Study With a Master"
  • Pages 168-187: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 168-173: Donald Fuller, "Season's Height, New York, 1941"
    • Pages 173-175: Robert Ward, "More Seasonal Notes" [remarks on Copland's Quiet City, Bloch's Evocations, Emil Koehler's Piano Sonata etc.]
    • Pages 175-176: Humphrey Searle, "Music in Britain, Come What May"
    • Pages 176-178: Henry Cowell, "The League's Evening of Films"
    • Page 179: Paul Bowles, "Dance Memorial to Revueltas"
    • Pages 179-181: Henry Pleasants, "Opera and Orchestra in Philadelphia" [remarks on Bartok's Divertimento, Barber's Violin Concerto, and Nordoff's The Masterpiece, etc.]
    • Pages 181-183: Remi Gassmann, "Chicago Still in the Jubilee" [remarks on Kodaly's Concerto for Orchestra, Rudolph Ganz's Piano Concerto, etc.]
    • Pages 183-185: Josephine Metcalf, "Quickening the Dead"
    • Pages 185-187: Alfred Frankenstein, "San Francisco Rejuvenated"
  • Pages 188-189: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 189-193: In the Theatre (reviews by Samuel L.M. Barlow)
  • Pages 193-195: On the Film Front (remarks by Paul Bowles) [treats film scores by Louis Gruenberg, Miklos Rozsa, Lev Schwartz, etc.]
  • Pages 195-199: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 199-202: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills)
  • Pages 203-207: Recent Books
    • Pages 203-205: Paul Henry Lang, "The Middle and Modern Ages" [review of Music in the Middle Ages by Gustave Reese, published by Norton in 1940]
    • Pages 205-206: Colin McPhee, "Tools of Musical Culture" [review of The History of Musical Instruments by Dr. Curt Sachs, published by Norton in 1940]
    • Pages 206-207: Herbert Weinstock, "Charting the Course of Western Music" [review of A Rosa de los Vientos en la Musica Europea by Adolfo Salazar, published by Ediciones de la O.S.M. in 1940]
  • Page 208: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1941 – June 1941)

  • Pages 211-217: Roger Sessions, "American Music and the Crisis" [letter]
  • Pages 218-224: Aaron Copland, "Five Post-Romantics" [a chapter from the author's book Our New Music]
  • Pages 225-230: Paul Bowles, "On Mexico's Popular Music"
  • Page 231: Charlotte Trowbridge, drawing of Martha Graham [image]
  • Pages 232-234: Theodore Chanler, "Poetry and Music"
  • Pages 235-241: Charles Edward Smith and William Russell, "New Orleans Style"
  • Pages 242-249: Samuel L.M. Barlow, "American Composers, XVII: Virgil Thomson"
  • Pages 250-254: Hanns Eisler, "Film Music—Work in Progress"
  • Pages 255-266: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 255-259: Donald Fuller, "Season's Close—New York, Spring, 1941"
    • Pages 259-261: Arthur Cohn, "Rochester's Eleventh U.S.A. Festival"
    • Pages 261-263: Jerome Moross, "Hollywood Music Without Movies"
    • Pages 263-264: Remi Gassmann, Jubilee Wind-Up"
    • Pages 264-266: Minna Lederman, "Museum Pieces"
  • Pages 267-269: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 269-270: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 271-274: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [works discussed: Boris Koutzen, Concerto for Five Solo Instruments and String Orchestra; David Diamond, Aria and Hymn for Orchestra; Gardner Read, Prelude and Toccata for Orchestra; Herbert Haufreucht, Three Fantastic Marches for Orchestra; Edmund Haines, Three Dances for Orchestra, etc.]
  • Pages 275-278: New Books
    • Pages 275-277: Alfred Einstein, "Grove Salutes New Music" [review of the supplement to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by H.C. Colles, published by The Macmillan Company in 1940]
    • Pages 277-278: Alex North, "Music for Dancing" [review of Choreographic Music by Verna Arvey, published by E.P. Dutton in 1941]
  • Page 279: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 19: November 1941 – June 1942

Number 1 (November 1941 – December 1941)

  • Page 2: B. Dolbin, Composers of Soviet Russia [sketches of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Miaskovsky]
  • Pages 3-9: Arthur Lourié, "Notes on the 'New Order'"
  • Pages 10-15: Paul Rosenfeld, "A Plea for Improvisation"
  • Pages 16-20: x-1941, "The Nazis Draft Music for Total War"
  • Pages 21-25: Lazare Saminsky, "Canadian Youth" [discusses Godfrey Ridout, Louis Applebaum, John J. Weinzweig, André Mathieu, Maurice Blackburn, Hector Gratton, Alexander Brott, Barbara Pentland, and Robert Fleming]
  • Pages 26-31: Carleton Sprague Smith, "The Composers of Chile" [discusses Enrique Soro, Melo Cruz, Humberto Allende, Domingo Santa Cruz, Alfonso Leng, Alfonso Letelier Llona, and René Amengual among others]
  • Pages 32-46: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 32-36: Donald Fuller, "Fall Openings, 1941 – I.S.C.M. Date Model"
    • Pages 36-39: Paul Bowles, "Letter from Mexico"
    • Pages 39-42: Ralph Hawkes, "Publishing Music in a Time of World War"
    • Pages 42-44: Henry Cowell, "Summer Festivals in the U.S.A."
    • Pages 44-46: Arno Huth, "Swiss News"
  • Pages 47-49: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 50-53: At the Opera (remarks by Douglas Moore)
  • Pages 53-58: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 58-59: On the Film Front (remarks by John Latouche)
  • Pages 59-62: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses David Diamond's Elegy in Memory of Ravel, Bernard Herrmann's Symphony No. 1, Charles Jones's Suite for Small Orchestra, and other works by Roy Harris, Julian Herbage, Adam Carse, Robert Russell Bennett, and Charles Naginski etc.]
  • Pages 63-71: Recent Books
    • Pages 63-65: Walter Piston, "Music in the Setting of World History" [review of Music in Western Civilization by Paul Henry Lang, published by Norton in 1941]
    • Pages 65-67: Theodore Chanler, "The New Romanticism" [review of Our New Music by Aaron Copland, published by Whittlesey House in 1941]
    • Pages 67-69: Conlon Nancarrow, "Mexican Music – A Developing Nationalism" [review of Panorama de la Música Mexicana – Desde la Independencia Hasta la Actualidad by Otto Mayer-Serra, published by El Colegio de México in 1941]
    • Pages 69-70: Ross Lee Finney, "Piston's Manual of Harmonic Practice" [review of Harmony by Walter Piston, published by Norton in 1941]
    • Pages 70-71: Elliott Carter, "Composers by the Alphabet" [review of Great Modern Composers edited by Oscar Thompson; published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1941]
  • Page 72: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1942 – February 1942)

  • Pages 75-82: Aaron Copland, "The Composers of South America"
  • Pages 83-87: Henry Cowell, "In Time of Bitter War"
  • Pages 88-91: Ernst Krenek, "Busoni—Then and Now"
  • Pages 92-95: Paul [Henry] Lang, "Musicology for Music"
  • Page 96: B. Dolbin sketch of William Schuman [image]
  • Pages 97-99: Leonard Bernstein, "Young American - William Schuman"
  • Pages 100-101: Benjamin Britten, "Au Revoir to the U.S.A."
  • Pages 102-107: Bernhard Heiden, "Hindemith's 'System' — A New Approach"
  • Page 108: Marian Greenwood, drawing of David Diamond [image]
  • Pages 109-123: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 109-115: Donald Fuller, "Americans to the Fore – New York, 1941-42" [brief reviews of William Schuman's Third Symphony, Virgil Thomson's Second Symphony, Carlos Chavez's Piano Concerto, Shostakovich's Cello Sonata etc.]
    • Pages 115-117: Charles Ives, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" [description of his own Fourth Violin Sonata]
    • Pages 117-120: Ernest Chapman, "Britain Calls Music to the Colors" [discusses British musical activity in support of the war effort and also reviews new works such as William Walton's Violin Concerto and Alan Bush's Meditation on a German Song of 1848]
    • Pages 120-122: Ross Lee Finney, "Artists Find a Way—Minneapolis M.T.N.A."
    • Pages 122-123: David Van Vactor, "New Works in Chicago" [Arthur Benjamin's Overtire to an Italian Comedy, Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Leo Sowerby's String Quartet in G Minor, etc.]
  • Pages 124-126: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 126-129: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow)
  • Pages 129-132: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 132-134: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [discusses Hanns Eisler's score for Forgotten Village etc.]
  • Pages 134-138: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Dai-Keong Lee's Introduction and Allegro, Quincy Porter's music for Anthony and Cleopatra, Henry Hadley's In Bohemia overture, Russell Bennett's Nocturne and Appassionata for Piano and Orchestra, Juan José Castro's Symphony of the Fields, Hindemith's Sonata for English Horn and Piano etc.]
  • Pages 139-143: Recent Books
    • Pages 139-140: Marc Blitzstein, "Singing Country" [review of Our Singing Country, Volume II of American Ballads and Folk Songs; collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax; published by The Macmillan Company]
    • Pages 140-142: Frederick Jacobi, "The Approach to 'Greatness'" [review of Greatness in Music by Alfred Einstein, published by Oxford University Press in 1941]
    • Pages 142-143: Robert Ward, "Quick-Sketch of Spain" [review of The Music of Spain by Gilbert Chase, published by Norton]
  • Page 144: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1942 – April 1942)

  • Pages 147-152: Lehman Engel, "Songs of the American Wars"
  • Pages 153-155: Bela Bartok, "Race Purity in Music"
  • Pages 156-162: Roger Sessions, "No More Business-As-Usual" [critique of American musical life during wartime]
  • Pages 163-166: Colin McPhee, "The Green Earth Scorched" [on Bali and colonialism]
  • Pages 167-168: Robert Ward, "In the Army Now" [on the status of the musician in the army]
  • Pages 169-172: Richard Franko Goldman, "Bands in War-Time"
  • Pages 173-189: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 173-178: Donald Fuller, "Winter to Spring, New York, 1942" [remarks on Robert Russell Bennett's Eight Etudes for Orchestra, Jaromir Weinberger's Lincoln Symphony, Martinu's Concerto Grosso for Chamber Orchestra, Poulenc's Two Piano Concerto, Douglas Moore's A Symphony of Autumn etc.]
    • Pages 178-181: Alfred Frankenstein, "Stravinsky in Beverley Hills"
    • Pages 181-185: Arno Huth, "Collaboration in France–Swiss News"
    • Pages 185-189: Arthur Cohn, "Chavez and the Chicago Drouth," and "Philadelphia Story"
  • Pages 190-192: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 192-194: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [treats war films and scores by Antheil for Once in a Blue Moon and by Korngold for King's Row etc.]
  • Pages 194-197: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow) [discusses Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, and The Island God by Gian-Carlo Menotti etc.]
  • Pages 197-201: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [Martha Graham's Punch and the Judy etc.]
  • Pages 201-205: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses William Schuman's Fourth Symphony, Wayne Barlow's The Winter Passed, Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, Paul Creston's Pastorale and Tarantella for Orchestra etc.]
  • Pages 206-211: Recent Books
    • Pages 206-208: Minna Lederman, "American Way" [review of Who, What and Why is Radio? by Robert Landry, published by the George W. Stewart Company]
    • Pages 208-210: Roy Welch, "Further Initiation Rites" [review of From Madrigal to Modern Music by Douglas Moore, published by Norton in 1942]
    • Pages 210-211: Leonard Feather, "Nostalgic Guide to Jazz" [review of Jazz Record Book by Charles Edward Smith et al., published by Smith and Durell]
  • Page 212: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1942 – June 1942)

  • Pages 215-221: Paul Rosenfeld, "One of the Parents" [on Horatio Parker]
  • Pages 222-227: Pedro Sanjuan, "Cuba's Popular Music"
  • Pages 228-229: Theodore Chanler, "Arctic Arcadian" [critique of Jean Sibelius]
  • Pages 233-235: Minna Lederman, "A Letter from Paris" [La Revue Musicale etc.]
  • Page 236: John Canaday, drawing of Randall Thompson [image]
  • Pages 237-242: Quincy Porter, "American Composers, XVIII: Randall Thompson"
  • Pages 243-245: John Cage, "For More New Sounds" [a call for sounds beyond conventional instruments, and the means to notate/represent them]
  • Pages 246-248, 250: John Kirkpatrick, "Aaron Copland's Piano Sonata"
  • Page 249: Jo Mielziner, "Pilar of Fire" – design for Anthony Tudor's ballet set to Arnold Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht (a spring production of the Ballet Theatre) [image]
  • Pages 251-253: Edwin Hughes, "Blackout for the Music Industries"
  • Pages 254-270: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 254-260: Donald Fuller, "New York, Spring, '42; Music of the Americas" [remarks on William Schuman's Fourth Symphony, Samuel Barber's Second Essay for Orchestra, Prokofiev's Scythian Suite, etc.]
    • Pages 260-263: John Cage, "South Winds in Chicago" [remarks on Harl McDonald's Overture (1941) and especially Hindemith's Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra]
    • Pages 263-265: Henry Cowell, "Improving Pan-American Music Relations"
    • Page 266: Quincy Porter, "Solomon and Balkis in Cambridge" [Randall Thompson's opera]
    • Pages 267-270: Arthur Cohn, "Rogers, Diamond and Others at Rochester"
  • Pages 271-272: Scores and Records (Remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 272-275: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [reviews of Fokine-Prokofiev-Dobujinski, Russian Solider; and Tudor-Schönberg-Mielziner, Pillar of Fire etc.]
  • Pages 275-278: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [remarks on Chaplin's Gold Rush and Marc Blitzstein's score for Native Land etc.]
  • Pages 279-282: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Quincy Porter's Music for Strings, Richard Arnell's Sonata for Chamber Orchestra, Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, Rudolph Forst's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra etc.]
  • Page 283: Contents of Recent Back Issues
  • Page 284: Contributors to this Issue
  • Pages 285-289: Index to Back Issues

Volume 20: November 1942 – June 1943

Number 1 (November 1942 – December 1942)

  • Pages 3-7: Roger Sessions, "Artists and this War: A Letter to an Imaginary Colleague"
  • Pages 8-12: Richard Franko Goldman, "Music for the Army"
  • Pages 13-16: Germaine Tailleferre, "From the South of France"
  • Pages 17-22:Theodore Chanler, "Stravinsky's Apologia"
  • Pages 23-26: Lazare Saminsky, "Composers of the Pacific"
  • Pages 27-32: Léon Kochnitzky, "Musical Portraits"
  • Pages 33-36: Back Issues of Modern Music
  • Pages 37-50: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 37-40: Donald Fuller, "New York '42: Soviet Tribute: Stadium: Ballet"
    • Pages 40-43: Arno Huth, "News from Paris and Elsewhere in Europe"
    • Pages 43-46: Charles Cushing, "The I.S.C.M. in California" [premiere of Ellis Kohs' Concerto for Orchestra etc.]
    • Pages 46-48: Carl Buchman, "Composers Dedicate Works to the Band" [Pedro Sanjuan's Canto Yorubá, Morton Gould's Jericho, William Schuman's News-Reel, Percy Grainger's Lads of Wamphray etc.]
    • Pages 49-50: James Sykes, "Native Notes in Colorado"
  • Pages 51-52: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 53-57: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [includes remarks on Copland ballets]
  • Pages 57-61: Films and Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles) [discusses some war films, Miklos Rosza's music for Jacare etc.]
  • Pages 62-63: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [treats Shostakovich's newly broadcast Seventh Symphony, Copland's Lincoln Portrait and Music for Radio etc.]
  • Pages 64-67: Recent Books
    • Pages 64-66: Arthur Berger, "On Modern Music, But for Whom?" [review of This Modern Music by John Tasker Howard, published by Crowell]
    • Pages 66-67: Minna Lederman, "Round the World with Radio" [review of Radio Today by Arno Huth, published by the Geneva Research Center]
  • Page 68: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1943 – February 1943)

  • Pages 71-77: Eugene Goossens, "The Public—Has It Changed?"
  • Pages 78-82: Aaron Copland, "From the '20s to the '40s and Beyond"
  • Pages 83-89: Paul Rosenfeld, "When New York Became Central"
  • Pages 90-94: Paul Nettl, "The West Faces East"
  • Pages 95-101: Howard Hanson, "Twenty Years; Growth in America"
  • Pages 102-111: Ernst Krenek, "Opera Between the Wars"
  • Pages 112-125: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 112-115: Donald Fuller, "New York Mid-Season, 1942–'43" [premiere of Martinu's First Symphony in Boston, Bernard Herrman's First Symphony, remarks on frequent Shostakovich symphony performances, new Two-Piano Sonata by Hindemith, etc.]
    • Pages 115-117: Israel Citkowitz, "Birthday Pieces" [treats Piston's Flute/Strings Quintet, Milhaud's Eleventh String Quartet, Arthur Shepherd's Praeludium Salutorium, etc.]
    • Pages 117-120: Marc Blitzstein, "London: Fourth Winter of the Blackout" [describes musical/cultural life here at the height of the war]
    • Pages 121-124: Leopoldo Hurtado, "Inter-American Reviews"
    • Pages 124-125: Leah Brenner, "Below the Rio Grande"
  • Pages 126-129: Scores and Records, "1923-1943" [remarks by Colin McPhee on music publishing and recording during this span, with some discussion of particular works]
  • Pages 129-132: Films and Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles)
  • Pages 132-137: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 137-139: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Bernard van Dieren's Sonnet Amoretti, Charles Martin Loeffler's Pagan Poem, Harold Triggs' The Bright Land, etc.]
  • Pages 140-142: Recent Books
    • Pages 140-142: Paul Bowles, "Once Again, Le Jazz Hot" [review of The Real Jazz by Hugues Panassié, published by Smith and Durrell]
  • Page 143: Contributors to this Issue
  • Page 144: "Leading Figures Hail the League" [short tributes by Serge Koussevitszky, Leopold Stokowsi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Darius Milhaud, Olin Downes, Charles Seeger, Howard Hanson, Oscar Thompson, and Eugene Goossens]

Number 3 (March 1943 – April 1943)

  • Pages 147-151: Israel Citkowitz, "Abstract Method and the Voice"
  • Pages 152-156: John Peatman, "'Non-Militant, Sentimental...'"
  • Pages 157-160: Willard Rhodes, "On the Warpath, 1942"
  • Pages 161-169: Robert Horan, "American Composers, XIX: Samuel Barber"
  • Pages 170-174: Robert Ward, "Letter from the Army"
  • Pages 175-203: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 175-182: Arthur Berger, "Once Again, the One-Man Show, 1943"
    • Pages 182-185: Donald Fuller, "More on the New York Season"
    • Pages 185-187: S. Schlifstein, "News from Russia (By Cable to Modern Music from Moscow): On 'War and Peace'" [Prokofiev]
    • Pages 187-189: Igor Boelza, "Shebalin's Overture, Glière's Concerto"
    • Pages 189-191: Howard Hess, "Fanfares by Americans"
    • Pages 191-193: Ingolf Dahl, "'Tough Concerts' in Los Angeles"
    • Pages 193-195: Alfred Frankenstein, "For San Francisco, Orchestral Moderns"
    • Pages 195-197: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Bartok's Latest, 'American Repertory'"
    • Pages 197-199: Carlos Raygada, "Inter-American Reviews: The Curse of the Virtuoso Routine" [contemporary music in Lima]
    • Pages 199-202: R.U.A., "Politics and International Influence" [contemporary music in Montevideo]
    • Pages 202-203: Myron Schaeffer, "At the World's Crossroads" [musical life in Panama]
  • Pages 204-205: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [David Diamond's Quintet in B Minor, Virgil Thomson's Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripedes, etc.]
  • Pages 205-207: Films and Theatre (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Louis Gruenberg's music for Commandos Strike At Dawn, etc.]
  • Pages 207-209: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 209-213: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [comments on Roy Harris's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's Symphony in C, etc.]
  • Pages 214-215: Recent Books
    • Pages 214-215: Gilbert Chase, "Americanismo Musical" [review of Boletín Latino American de Música Vol. 5, edited by Francesco Curt Lange]
  • Page 216: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1943 – June 1943)

  • Page 218: Frank Waldo Murray, Portrait of Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert [image]
  • Pages 219-225: Elliott Carter, "American Figure, With Landscape" [discusses Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert]
  • Pages 226-228: Theodore Chanler, "Words and Musical Form"
  • Pages 229-234: Edwin Denby, "About Words for Singing"
  • Pages 235-242: Colin McPhee, "Eight to the Bar" [on rhythm in jazz and world music]
  • Pages 243-247: Henry and Sidney Robertson Cowell, "Our Country Music"
  • Pages 248-253: Otto Luening, "American Composers, XX: Douglas Moore"
  • Pages 254-276: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 254-257: Arthur Berger, "Spring Season, 1943"
    • Pages 257-260: Donald Fuller, "Society Notes in New York"
    • Pages 260-262: Winthrop P. Tryon, "First in Boston" [a group of premieres]
    • Pages 262-264: George Frederick McKay, "War Boom in the Northwest"
    • Pages 264-266: Paul Rosenfeld, "Robert Palmer and Charles Mills"
    • Pages 267-268: Stewart B. Sabin, "Thirteen at Rochester" [13th annual Rochester School Festival of Music; treats premiere of Sowerby's Violin Concerto, etc.]
    • Pages 268-270: G. Michailov, "As They See Us in Russia"
    • Pages 270-273: Samuel L.M. Barlow, "Inter-American Reviews: Chilean Travels"
    • Pages 273-276: Luis Sandi, "Struggle in Mexico" [difficulties with music education there]
  • Pages 277-278: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [discusses Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, Paul Hindemith's Six Chansons, Henry Cowell's How Ols is Song, etc.]
  • Pages 279-282: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
  • Pages 282-284: Theatre and Films (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Roy Webb's score for The Human Comedy, etc.]
  • Pages 284-286: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, Prokofiev's cantata Alexander Nevsky, William Schuman's A Free Song, Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony, Hindemith's Symphony in E-Flat, Vladimir Dukelsky's Violin Concerto, etc.]
  • Pages 286-287: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure") [new section on jazz, blues, and popular tunes for this periodical; mentions Brad Gowan's band, Lil Green, Duke Ellington, etc.]
  • Pages 288-291: Recent Books
    • Pages 288-290: Minna Lederman, "Pamphlets and Pamphleteers" [short reviews of various booklets on Russian music]
    • Pages 290-291: Israel Citkowitz, "Interpretive Style" [review of History of Music in Performance by Frederick Dorian, published by Norton in 1942]
  • Page 292: Contributors to this Issue

Volume 21: November 1943 – June 1944

Number 1 (November 1943 – December 1943)

  • Pages 3-5: Theodore Chanler, "Poetry, Music and Time"
  • Pages 6-9: Alfred Frankenstein, "How to Make Friends by Radio"
  • Pages 10-15: Sidney Robertson Cowell, "White Spirituals"
  • Pages 16-17: Vissarion Shebalin, "Dean of Soviet Composers" [on Nikolai Miaskovsky]
  • Pages 16-22: Keith Thompson, "Opera in America Today"
  • Pages 23-26: Douglas Moore, "Young Composers After the War"
  • Pages 27-30: Kurt List, "Anton von Webern"
  • Pages 31-47: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 31-34: Colin McPhee, "The Season Opens–1943" [discusses Bartok's Violin Concerto, Bernard Rogers' Invasion, Douglas Moore's Prayer for the Nation, etc.]
    • Pages 34-36: Lou Harrison, "Summer and Early Fall, New York" [discusses Henry Cowell's Shoonthree, Wallingford Riegger's Prelude and Fugue, Stanley Bate's Piano Sonatina, etc.]
    • Pages 37-39: Lawrence Morton, "American Conductor and Works for L.A."
    • Pages 39-41: Arno Huth, "Where Nations Still Meet" [cultural activity in Switzerland]
    • Pages 41-42: Eleanor Wakefield, "Red Star Over the Southwest" [Soviet music concert in Houston]
    • Pages 42-44: Robert Evett, "Lively Conference in Colorado" [annual Fine Arts Conference at Colorado Springs]
    • Pages 44-45: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Martinu's Second Symphony"
    • Pages 45-47: Norman Nairn, "Informal Symposium at Rochester" [David Diamond's Second Symphony, etc.]
    • Page 47: "Joshua at Jericho—Soviet Style" [Leon Himmelfarb's jazz band music heard over the German battlefield]
  • Pages 48-50: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [discusses Bartok piano works, Copland's Danzon Cubano, Douglas Moore's The Devil and Daniel Webster, etc.]
  • Pages 50-53: Theatre and Films (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Kurt Weill's music for One Touch of Venus, Copland's music for North Star, Alexandre Tansman's score for Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy, etc.]
  • Pages 53-57: Dancing on Broadway (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
  • Pages 57-60: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [negative comments on Edmund Rubbra's Third Symphony, discussion of Stravinsky's Ode for Orchestra and Leroy Robertson's Piano Quintet, etc.]
  • Pages 60-61: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
  • Pages 62-63: Recent Books
    • Pages 62-63: Arthur Berger, "Why Not Write a Book?" [review of The Music Lover's Handbook by Elie Siegmeister, published by William Morrow and Company]
  • Page 64: Contributors to this Issue

Number 2 (January 1944 – February 1944)

  • Page 66: M. Larionov, Sketch of Prokofiev, Diaghilev, and Larionov "At a Rehearsal of the Ballet Russe in Paris during the 'twenties" [image]
  • Pages 67-69: Serge Prokofiev, "My Cinderella"
  • Pages 70-75: Marcelle de Manziarly, "On Rhythm, Complex and Simple"
  • Pages 76-81: Jacques de Menasce, "Berg and Bartok"
  • Pages 82-84: William Strickland, "The Army Way Today"
  • Pages 85-88: "What Makes a Good War Song? Report from V.O.K.S. on the Moscow Meeting of Composers"
  • Pages 89-95: Darius Milhaud, "Through My California Window"
  • Pages 96-111: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 96-97: Colin McPhee, "Winter Stars and Lesser Lights"
    • Pages 98-100: Lou Harrison, "Composers, Singers and Chamber Music" [comments on Britten's Seven Sonnets, Douglas Moore's Three Divine Sonnets, songs by John Edmunds, Miklos Rosza's Variations, Anis Fuleihan's Piano Sonata Number Two, etc.]
    • Pages 100-102: Lawrence Morton, "American Symphonists in Los Angeles" [William Schuman's Third, Paul Creston's First, Robert Russell Bennett's Four Freedoms, etc.]
    • Pages 102-104: Moses Smith, "Boston Goes All Out on Premieres" [Berezovsky's Fourth Symphony, William Schuman's Symphony for Strings, Howard Hanson's Fourth Symphony, etc.]
    • Pages 104-106: Vincent Persichetti, "Philadelphia Takes a Flier" [world premieres of Martinu's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, and Hindemith's Cupid and Psyche, etc.]
    • Pages 107-108: Cecil Smith, "Breaking Trails in Chicago"
    • Pages 108-110: Alfred Frankenstein, "Milhaud's 'Midian' in Orchestral Debut"
    • Pages 110-111: Frederick Dorian, "Music Boom in War-Time Pittsburgh"
  • Pages 112-113: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis, Piston's Passacaglia for piano, etc.]
  • Pages 113-116: Dancing on Broadway (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
  • Pages 116-118: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton)
  • Pages 118-119: In the Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles)
  • Pages 120-121: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [Schoenberg orchestration of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, Villa-Lobos's Choros Number 1, etc.]
  • Pages 121-123: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
  • Pages 124-127: Recent Books
    • Pages 124-125: Israel Citkowitz, "And Now, Basic Music" [reviews of Models for Beginners in Composition by Arnold Schoenberg, published by Schirmer; and Traditional Harmony by Paul Hindemith, published by Associated Music Publishers]
    • Pages 126-127: Donald Fuller, "Biography, Premature or Overdone" [reviews of Dmitri Shostakovich, the Life and Background of a Soviet Composer by Victor Ilyich Seroff with Nadejda Galli-Shohat, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943; and Charles T. Griffes, the Life of an American Composer by Edward M. Maisel, published by A. Knopf in 1943]
  • Page 128: Contributors to this Issue

Number 3 (March 1944 – April 1944)

  • Page 130: Arnold Schönberg, Self-Portrait (March 1944) [image]
  • Pages 131-145: "Homage to Schönberg" [Schoenberg]
    • Pages 131-134: Ernst Krenek, "The Idiom and the Technic"
    • Pages 135-138: Lou Harrison, "The Late Works"
    • Pages 139-145: Kurt List: "Ode to Napoleon"
  • Pages 146-149: S.L.M. Barlow, "The Artist in South America"
  • Pages 150-154: André Breton (translated by Louise Varèse), "Silence is Golden"
  • Pages 155-158: Paul Nettl, "Music as a Weapon of War"
  • Pages 159-182: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 159-164: Lou Harrison, "Mid-Winter in New York, 1944" [discusses Hindemith performances, Dukelsky's Violin Concero, Miaskovsky's Second Sinfonietta, Stanlet Bate's Second String Quartet, etc.]
    • Pages 164-169: Donald Fuller, "Style in Recent Chamber Music" [discusses chamber works by Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Vladimir Dukelsky, Benjamin Britten, etc.]
    • Pages 169-171: Lawrence Morton, "The Harris Third and Other Works in L.A." [Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, Tchemberdji's Dance Suite, Harold Shapero's Violin Sonata, etc.]
    • Pages 171-173: Moses Smith, "Stravinsky Meets the Boston Censor"
    • Pages 173-175: Alfred Frankenstein, "Reviving Henry F. Gilbert"
    • Pages 175-177: Vincent Persichetti, "Revueltas Reaches Philadelphia"
    • Pages 177-179: George H. Lovett Smith, "Americana, New and Old"
    • Pages 179-180: Ray Brown, "Piston's New Symphony in Washington" [Second Symphony]
    • Pages 180-182: Roberto Garcia Morillo, "Argentine Season"
  • Pages 183-184: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [mentions increasing American interest in Mahler, discusses Virgil Thomson's Third Piano Sonata, etc.]
  • Pages 184-186: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton) [discusses Bernard Herrmann's score to Jane Eyre, etc.]
  • Pages 186-188: With the Dancers (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
  • Pages 188-191: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Stravinsky's Symphony in C, Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Antheil's Fourth Symphony, Hanson's Fourth Symphony, Persichetti's Piano Trio, Diamond's Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, etc.]
  • Pages 191-193: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure") [comments on the singing of Mildred Bailey, etc.]
  • Pages 194-195: Recent Books
    • Pages 194-195: Arthur Berger, "The Rediscovery of Consonance" [review of The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West by Curt Sachs, published by Norton]
    • Page 195: Colin McPhee, "One More for the Record" [review of Jazz, from the Congo to the Metropolitan by Robert Goffin, published by Doubleday Doran]
  • Page 196: Contributors to this Issue

Number 4 (May 1944 – June 1944)

  • Pages 199-202: Elliott Carter, "Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge"
  • Pages 203-207: Arthur Lourié, "The Approach to the Masses"
  • Pages 208-211: Theodore Chanler, "Rhythm and Habit"
  • Pages 212-216: W.H. Mellers, "New Trends in Britain: A Note on Rubbra and Tippett"
  • Pages 217-220: Aaron Copland, "On the Notation of Rhythm"
  • Pages 221-224: E. Power Biggs, "Organ Revival: Music Old and New"
  • Pages 225-232: Donald Fuller, "American Composers, XXI: Bernard Wagenaar"
  • Pages 233-258: Forecast and Review
    • Pages 233-237: Lou Harrison, "Season's End, May 1944" [includes a negative review of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, as well as brief reviews of Barber's Second and William Schuman's Fifth Symphonies; also includes remarks on music by Harry Partch and John Cage, etc.]
    • Pages 237-240: Donald Fuller, "Bernstein, Ballet, and Chamber Music"
    • Pages 240-243: Gail Kubik, "London Letter" [contains significant remarks on Michael Tippett's music, etc.]
    • Pages 243-246: Cecil Smith, "Composers to Chicago" [recounts performances of music by Copland, Gassmann, Thomson, Hindemith, Prokofiev, etc.]
    • Pages 246-248: Bernard Rogers, "The New Works at Rochester" [treats William Bergsma's Second Symphony, Burrill Phillips's Declaratives, Douglas Moore's In Memorium, Gardner Read's Night Flight, Elliott Carter's First Symphony, etc.]
    • Pages 248-251: Vincent Persichetti, "Some Firsts in Philadelphia" [remarks on Eugene Zador's Biblical Triptych, etc.]
    • Pages 251-253: Moses Smith, "Americans and Shostakovich in Boston" [remarks on Shostakovich Eighth, Roy Harris's music, Barber's Second Symphony, Piston's Second Symphony, etc.]
    • Pages 253-255: Frederick Dorian, "The New and Contemporary in Pittsburgh"
    • Pages 255-257: Lawrence Morton, "Diminuendo in the West" [remarks on William Schuman's A Free Song, etc.]
    • Pages 257-258: Ray C.B. Brown, "War Brings More Music to the Capital"
  • Pages 259-260: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
  • Pages 261-264: With the Dancers (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
  • Pages 264-266: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton)
  • Pages 266-267: In the Theatre (Paul Bowles)
  • Pages 268-270: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [more remarks on Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, remarks on Harris's Sixth Symphony, etc.]
  • Pages 270-271: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
  • Page 272: Contributors to this Issue
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