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"Bibliography of published writings of Virgil Thomson": p. [556]-562.
Table of Contents
Virgil Thomson, a Franco-Missourian American / John Rockwell -- Missouri landscape with figures -- Early articles. Jazz -- Aaron Copland -- George Gershwin -- Swing music -- Swing again -- Paris. Antheil, Joyce, and Pound -- Langlois, Butts, and Stein -- Paris, April 1940 -- A portrait of Gertrude Stein -- From "The state of music." A 1961 preface -- Our island home, or what it feels like to be a musician -- The neighbors, or chiefly about painters and painting -- Survivals of an earlier civilization, or shades of poets dead and gone -- Life among the natives, or musical habits and customs -- How composers eat, or who does what to whom and who gets paid -- Why composers write how, or the economic determinism of musical style -- How to write a piece, or functional design in music -- A 1961 postlude -- On the "New York Herald Tribune." The paper -- Articles and reviews, 1940-1945 -- Articles and reviews, 1946-1954 --