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Below is a hyperlinked Table of Contents for a complete MUSA edition: MUSA 8, Lou Harrison: Selected Keyboard and Chamber Music, 1937-1994. This online publication (copyrighted by the American Musicological Society) contains the complete text from the print edition and the first page of each musical score. Printable PDF versions of each section can be downloaded and viewed or printed using Acrobat Reader. To order a copy of the print edition and/or performance parts for this and other MUSA volumes, please visit the website of MUSA's publisher, A-R Editions, Inc.

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Front Matter
Cover
i MUSA Volumes List
ii Frontispiece
iii Title Pages and Dedication
vi Contents
viii Foreword
ix Preface & Acknowledgments
 
Essay Section
"Solemn Play: A Life of Cross-Cultural Synthesis"
xii Introduction
xvi Early West Coast Years (1917–1943)
xx San Francisco Period Works
xxx New York, Black Mountain College, and Early Years in Aptos (1943–1960)
xxxv Middle Period Works
xlv Mature Style (1961–1998)
xlviii Two Works from the 1980s
lvi Conclusion
 
Plates
lviii Plate 1 (France 1917–Spain1937)
lix Plate 2 (Second page of Changing Moment)
lx Plates 3, 4 (Vestiunt Silve, Sketch page from Cinna)
lxi Plates 5, 6 (Instruments of "Old Granddad", Lou Harrison & William Colvig)
 
Music—performance notes and first page of music
1 France 1917–Spain1937
4 Tributes to Charon
7 Praises for Michael the Archangel
13 Vestiunt Silve
16 Incidental Music for Corneille's Cinna
20 Varied Trio
23 Grand Duo
 
Apparatus
26 Apparatus—Sources, Notes on Performance, Editorial Methods, Critical Commentary

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