Preface to the Sixth Edition

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Preface to the Fourth Edition

PART ONE Descriptive Chronology 1900--2000

PART TWO Letters and Documents

Moto Proprio of Pope Pius X on Sacred Music

Mediator Dei of Pope Pius XII on the Sacred Liturgy

The Black List of Disapproved Music

Three Anti-Modernist Poems: 1884, 1909, 1924

Manifesto of Futurist Musicians

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music

The Art of Noises

Down with the Tango and Parsifal!

Futurist Manifesto of Aeromusic

History of the Dalcroze Method of Eurhythmics

Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna

What Is Atonality?

Letter from Arnold Schoenberg on the Origin of the Twelve-Tone Method of Composition

Letter from Anton Von Webern

Gebrauchsmusik and Gemeinschaftsmusik

Letter from George Bernard Shaw

Letters from Charles E. Ives

Letters from Edgar Varese

Letter from the Japanese League of Composers

The Ideological Platform of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians

Resolution of the Union of Soviet Composers Condemning Anti-Soviet Activities

Soviet Musical Policy, 1948

Discussion at a General Assembly of Soviet Composers, Moscow, 17--26 February 1948

Letter of Protest from Four Soviet Composers

Declaration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Amending and Canceling the Resolution of 10 February 1948 and Restoring the Dignity and Integrity of Soviet Composers Attacked in That Resolution

Declaration of the Second International Congress of Composers and Musicologists in Prague, 29 May 1948

Declaration Made by Nikita Khrushchev on 8 March 1963 Stating His Views on Music in Soviet Society

Charter of the Union of Soviet Composers

Appeal for Peace Addressed to Musicians of the World at the International Manifestation Held in East Berlin on 2 November 1961

Musical Ideology of the Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Party

Hearings Regarding Hanns Eisler: Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 24, 25, and 26 September 1947

The Birth of Jazz

Unclassified Document, Department of the Army: Communist Vulnerabilities to the Use of Music in Psychological Warfare

Resolution of the Fire and Police Research Association of Los Angeles on the Subversive Perils of American Folk Music

Debate on Folk Music at the United States Senate

Letter from Ralph Nader Sounding Alarm at the Noise Pollution of the Aural Environment by the Rock-`n'-Roll Bands

Statement on the Mobilization of the Masses to Use Mao Tsetung's Thought to Transform the Literary, Musical, Art and Theater Front in China

Has Absolute Music No Class Character?

Criticize the Revisionist Viewpoint in Music

Record Labeling: Hearing Before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

PART THREE Dictionary of Terms

PART FOUR Index