VI. Topical Studies

Finkelstein, Sydney. Composer and Nation: The Folk Heritage of Music, 237-243. London, United Kingdom: Lawrence & Wishart, 1960.

Yates, Peter. “Lou Harrison.” American Composers Alliance Bulletin 9/2: 2-6.

Harding, Walter. “Thoreau’s Fame.” In A Thoreau Handbook. New York, NY: New York Univer-sity Press, 1959.

Copland, Aaron. “The Twentieth Century: Reorientation and Experi-ment.” Music and Western Man, edited by Peter Garvie, 285-286. London, United Kingdom: J.M. Dent, 1958.

Mellers, Wilfrid H. “Postlude: Charles Ives and the New World.” In Romanticism and the 20th Century (from 1800), 218-225. Fair Lawn, NJ: Essential Books, 1957.

Highet, Gilbert. “The Fascination of What’s Difficult.” In Talents and Geniuses: The Pleasures of Appreciation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press: 48-55.

Sessions, Roger. Reflections on the Music Life in the United States. New York, NY: Merlin Press, 1956.

“Notes of the Day (Value of Technical Skill in Composing Music).” Monthly Musical Record 85/968 (July-August): 141-144.

Copland, Aaron. “Modern Music: Fresh and Different.” New York Times Magazine (March 13, 1955): 15, 60, 62.

Pleasants, Henry. The Agony of Modern Music. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.