Preface xiii
1. 1952–59 (Early Works) 1
1.1. Monody (1959) 3
2. 1959–61 (Tape Music) 7
2.1. Improvisations for Medea (1960) 7
2.2. Collage #1 (“Blue Suede”) (1961) 8
3. 1961–64 (Computer Music) 9
3.1. Analog #1 (Noise Study) (1961) 9
3.2. Entrance/Exit Music (1962) 9
3.3. Five Stochastic Studies (1962) 13
3.4. Stochastic String Quartet (1963) and Stochastic Quartet (1963) 16
3.5. Dialogue (1963) 22
3.6. Radio Piece (1963) 27
3.7. Ergodos I (1963) 28
3.8. Phases (1963) 30
3.9. Music for Player Piano (1964) 30
3.10. Ergodos II (1964) 36
3.11. String Complement (1964) and Instrumental Responses (1964) 38
4. 1964–68 (Performance and the Social) 42
4.1. Choreogram (1964) 42
4.2. Chamber Music (1964) 42
4.3. Maximusic (1965) 47
4.4. Metabolic Music (1965) 47
4.5. Three Theater Pieces (1965) 49
4.6. Collage #2 (“Viet Flakes”) (1966) 51
4.7. A House of Dust (1967) and Letters to Gertrude Stein (1968) 60
4.8. Fabric for Che (1967) 66
4.9. Swell Piece (1967) 66
5. 1969–73 (Process and Continuity) 67
5.1. For Ann (rising) (1969) 67
5.2. Quiet Fan for Erik Satie (1970/1971) 67
5.3. Hey When I Sing These 4 Songs Hey Look What Happens (1971) 74
5.4. Postal Pieces (1965–71) 75
5.5. For 12 Strings (rising) (1971) 97
5.6. In the . . . Mode (1971, 1973) 99
6. 1972–79 (Canons and the Harmonic Series) 103
6.1. Clang (1972) 103
6.2. Quintext: Five Textures (1972) 103
6.3. Canon (1973) 117
6.4. The Chorales Series (1973–75) 118
6.5. Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow (1974) 124
6.6. Orchestral Study: The “Creation Field” (1974) 124
6.7. Three Harmonic Studies (1974) 126
6.8. Three Pieces for Mechanical Drum (1974–75) 134
6.9. Three Pieces for Drum Quartet (1974–75) 145
6.10. Symphony (1975) 160
6.11. Harmoniums #1, #4, and #5 (1976–78) 161
6.12. Saxony (1978) 169
6.13. Three Indigenous Songs (1979) 172
7. 1980–85 (Harmonic Spaces) 173
7.1. Harmoniums #2, #3, #6, and #7 (1980–2000) 173
7.2. Chromatic Canon (1980/1983) 178
7.3. Band (1980/1983) 190
7.4. Septet (1981) 193
7.5. Glissade (1982) 199
7.6. Two Koans and a Canon (1982) 217
7.7. Voice(s) (1982/1984) 220
7.8. deus ex machina (1982) 226
7.9. Bridge (1984) 229
7.10. Koan for String Quartet (1984) 229
7.11. Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps (1985) 229
7.12. Water on the mountain . . . Fire in heaven (1985) 257
8. 1986–94 (Transition and Tradition) 259
8.1. The Road to Ubud (1986) 259
8.2. Rune (1988) 264
8.3. Critical Band (1988) 275
8.4. Tableaux Vivants (1990) 275
8.5. Three New Seeds (1991) 288
8.6. Pika-Don (1991) 290
8.7. “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1992) 298
8.8. Flocking (1993) 300
8.9. Cognate Canons (1993) 301
8.10. Forms 1–4 (1993) 307
8.11. Ergodos III (1994) 315
9. 1994–2006 (Spectra and Diaphony) 318
9.1. In a Large, . . . (1994–95) 318
9.2. Three Pages in the Shape of a Pear (1995) 318
9.3. The Spectrum Series (1995, 2001) 320
9.4. Diapason (1996) 333
9.5. ’Scend for Scelsi (1996) 337
9.6. Diaphonic Study (1997) 340
9.7. Diaphonic Toccata (1997) 341
9.8. Diaphonic Trio (1997) 342
9.9. Song ’n’ Dance for Harry Partch (1999) 343
9.10. Seegersong #1 and Seegersong #2 (1999) 349
9.11. Last Spring in Toronto (2000) 352
9.12. Prelude and Toccata (2001) 357
9.13. (Fontana) Mix for Six (Strings) (2001) 359
9.14. To Weave (a meditation) (2003) 361
9.15. Essay (after a sonata) (2004) 364
9.16. Just Another Bagatelle (2004) 367
9.17. For Piano and . . . (2005) 368
9.18. Panacousticon (2005) 370
9.19. Arbor Vitae (2006) 372
10. Music in Popular Styles 373
10.1. Three Rags for Pianoforte (1969) 373
10.2. “Listen . . . !” (1981/1984) 375
10.3. Blues Canon (from “Listen . . . !”) (1981) 376
10.4. Nathan’s Song (1983) 376
10.5. Sneezles (an encore) (1985/1995/2000) 376
11. Arrangements 377
11.1. Maple Leaf Rag 377
11.2. Stoptime Rag 377
11.3. General William Booth Enters into Heaven 377
11.4. Blues for Annie 378
11.5. Beatles Song Arrangements 378
11.6. Five Studies for Player Piano 378
Notes 379
References 407
Index 417
