REFLECTIONS
on the MUSIC LIFE
in the UNITED STATES

This is Volume VI of the MERLIN MUSIC BOOKS (8 volumes).

Published in this series thus far:

  1. I. Bach: The Conflict Between the Sacred and the Secular, by Leo Schrade, Professor of The History of Music, Yale University.
  2. II. Tudor Church Music, by Denis Stevens, British Broadcasting Corporation, London.
  3. III. Stravinsky, Classic Humanist, by Heinrich Strobel, Director, Music Division, Southwest German Radio System, Baden-Baden.
  4. IV. Musicians and Poets of the French Renaissance, by François Lesure, Librarian, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Chief, Central Secretariat of “Répertoire International des Sources Musicales.”
  5. V. Greek Music, Verse and Dance, by Thrasybulos Georgiades, Professor of Musicology, University of Munich.
  6. VI. Reflections on the Music Life in the United States, by Roger Sessions, Professor of Composition, Princeton University.

REFLECTIONS
on the MUSIC LIFE
in the United States

ROGER SESSIONS

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