Composer

No. 1 (October 1958)

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

No. 2 (March 1959)

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

No. 3 (October 1959)

• Pages 1-3: Editorial