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NEWS SECTION 'Electronic Music Synthesis' by Hubert S. Howe, PP.39-4J. Elmer Schonberger, George 'Bad Jr., pp.178-181. John Rahn, On Pitch or Boy of Music' Antheil and the 1976 Holland Fes- Rhythm: Interpretations of Orderings of and in tival, pp.46-ji. 'Composers' Corner'— Pitch and Time, pp.182-203. Hubert S. Howe, further comments on Kees van Baaren from Jr., The 197J 1SCM World Music Days, pp.204- Hans Kox, Ton de Leeuw, Theo Loevendie, 210. Tristan Keuris, Jacques Bank, pp.j4-jj. Marius Flothuis on himself, pp.J7-J9. Hans CONTACT. Editor: Keith Potter; editorial Henkemans, Essay towards an autobiography, address: Department of Music, University of pp.j9-6o. London, Goldsmith's College, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW. MUSIC A. Editor: Hanspeter Krellmann; Issue IJ, Winter 1976/77. published bimonthly by Barenreiter-Verlag, Composers Today: Malcolm Barry/Richard 3j Heinrich-Schiitz-Allee, 3J00 Kassel- Witts, David Bedford, pp.3-7. Richard Witts, Wilhelmshohe. Jean-Yves Bosseur, pp.8-11. Richard Steinitz, November/December 1976. George Crumb, pp. 11 -13. Glyn Perrin, Mauricio Wulf Konold, Distanz wegen Nahe. Gesprach Kagel, pp.13-16. John Schneider, New Instru- mit dem Komponisten Helmut Lachenmann, ments through Frequency Division, pp. 18-21. Jim pp.48 1-484. Christian Mollers, Schonbergs Sharpe, Music and Society—2: The Impact of Zwolftontechnik—rationale uberwindung der Ex- Industrial Society on English Folk Song—some pressionistischen Anarchie?, PP.48J-489. observations, pp.23-27. Hugh Davies, Electronic January/February 1977 Music Studios in Britain—4: Goldsmiths' College, Klaus Kirchberg, Die Grenzen durchlassiger University' of London, pp.289-31. machen. Ein Gesprach mit dem Komponisten Juan Allende-Blin, pp. 2 2-28. KEY NOTES. Editorial address: Donemus, Jacob Obrechtstraat JI, Amsterdam, Holland; MELOS/NEUE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR MUSIK. published by the Donemus Foundation. Editors: Carl Dalhaus, Hans Oesch, Ernst No.4, 1976/2. Thomas, Otto Tomek; published by B. Hein Kien, The Composer Kees van Baaren— Schott's Sohne (Mainz), Weihergarten, Post- Towards a Revaluation of Sound Material, pp.4-18. fach 3640. Rudy Koopmans, On Music and Politics— January/February 1977. Activism of Five Dutch Composers, pp. 19-3 g (the Roland Kayn, Komponieren Zwischen Computer composers—all pupils of Kees van Baaren— und Kybernetik, pp. 22-27. Klaus Fessmann, are Louis Andriessen, Reinbert de Leeuw, Bergson zu Klang gebracht, Beobachtungen zur Misha Mengelberg, Peter Schat, and Jan 'Bergsoniana' von Boguslaw Schaffer, pp.28-32. van Vlijmen). Elmer Schonberger, From a Wolfgang Hufschmidt, 'fur orchester'. Die Personal Point of View, pp.36-38. Peter Schat, Entstehung einer Gemeinschaftskomposition, pp.32- The Dream of Reason—The Reason of a Dream, 34- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR from JOHN CRUFT THE 'discussion' of the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network you published in your Decem- ber issue gave a generous picture of this scheme. May I emphasize how greatly the comments of audience members on concerts they have attended, or programmes they would welcome, will be appreciated, whether as published letters in your quarterly, or to Miss Morreau or myself at the Council? Arts Council of Great Britain, IOJ Piccadilly, London W1V0AU. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 27 Sep 2021 at 00:15:07, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200029090.

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