| Acknowledgments | | vii | |
| Preface | | ix | |
| The String Quartets of Bartok (1949) |
| | 1 | |
| Review of Leibowitz, Schoenberg et son ecole (1950) |
| | 10 | |
| Review of Le Systeme Dodecaphonique (1950) |
| | 16 | |
| Review of Salzer, Structural Hearing (1952) |
| | 22 | |
| Tintinnabulation of the Crochets (Review of Halsey Stevens, The Life and Music of Bartok) (1953) |
| | 31 | |
| Musical America's Several Generations (1954) |
| | 34 | |
| Some Aspects of Twelve-Tone Composition (1955) |
| | 38 | |
| The Composer as Specialist (1958) |
| | 48 | |
| Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants (1960) |
| | 55 | |
| The Revolution in Sound: Electronic Music (1960) |
| | 70 | |
| Past and Present Concepts of the Nature and Limits of Music (1961) |
| | 78 | |
| Set Structure as a Compositional Determinant (1961) |
| | 86 | |
| Twelve-Tone Rhythmic Structure and the Electronic Medium (1962) |
| | 109 | |
| Reply to George Perle's "Babbitt, Lewin, and Schoenberg: A Critique" (1963) |
| | 141 | |
| Remarks on the Recent Stravinsky (1964) |
| | 147 | |
| The Synthesis, Perception, and Specification of Musical Time (1964) |
| | 172 | |
| An Introduction to the R.C.A. Synthesizer (1964) |
| | 178 | |
| The Structure and Function of Musical Theory (1965) |
| | 191 | |
| The Use of Computers in Musicological Research (1965) |
| | 202 | |
| Edgard Varese: A Few Observations of His Music (1966) |
| | 213 | |
| Three Essays on Schoenberg (1968) |
| | 222 | |
| | 237 | |
| Contribution to "The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky" (1970) |
| | 259 | |
| Memorial for Matyas Seiber (1970) |
| | 263 | |
| Stravinsky Memorial (1971) |
| | 264 | |
| Contemporary Music Composition and Musical Theory as Contemporary Intellectual History (1972) |
| | 270 | |
| Memorial for Stefan Wolpe (1972) |
| | 308 | |
| | 310 | |
| Celebrative Speech for the Schoenberg Centennial (1976) |
| | 335 | |
| Responses: A First Approximation (1976) |
| | 341 | |
| Introduction to Marion Bauer, Twentieth Century Music (1978) |
| | 367 | |
| Foreword to David Epstein, Beyond Orpheus (1979) |
| | 371 | |
| Memorial for Ben Weber (1979) |
| | 377 | |
| Memorial for Robert Miller (1981) |
| | 380 | |
| The More than the Sounds of Music (1984) |
| | 383 | |
| | 388 | |
| "All the Things They Are": Comments on Kern (1985) |
| | 395 | |
| Memorial for Hans Keller (1986) |
| | 399 | |
| Stravinsky's Verticals and Schoenberg's Diagonals: A Twist of Fate (1987) |
| | 404 | |
| On Having Been and Still Being an American Composer (1989) |
| | 428 | |
| A Life of Learning (1991) |
| | 437 | |
| | 459 | |
| My Vienna Triangle (1999) |
| | 466 | |
| Index | | 489 | |