Roger Sessions: Journal Articles


Black, Peter. "Inroads for analysis: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard 
Bloom'd by Roger Sessions." Sonus: A Journal of Investigations Into 
Global Musical Possibilities, vol. 18, no.2 (spring 1998): 1-17.

Boretz, Benjamin. "Current Chronicle." The Musical Quarterly, xlvii 
(1961): 386-93. 

Brunswick, Mark. "American Composers, X: Roger Huntington Sessions." 
Modern Music, x (1932-3): 182-7. 

Burge, David. "Contemporary Piano: Piano Music of Roger Sessions." 
Contemporary Keyboard, vi/10 (1980): 61.

Carter, Elliot. "Current Chronicle." The Musical Quarterly, 45 (1959): 
375-81.

-----. "In Memoriam Roger Sessions (1896-1985)." Perspectives of New 
Music, xxiii/2 (1985): 110-65.
 
-----. "Roger Sessions: a Commemorative Tribute." Tempo, no.156 (1986)
: 4-6.

Cogan, Robert. "Toward a Theory of Timbre: Verbal Timbre and Musical 
Line in Purcell, Sessions, and Stravinsky." Perspectives of New Music, 
viii/1 (1969-70): 75-81. 

Cone, Edward T. "Conversation with Roger Sessions." Perspectives of New 
Music, 4:2 (1965-6): 29-46. [Reprinted in Perspectives on American 
Composers (New York, 1971): 90-107.]

-----. "In Honor of Roger Sessions." Perspectives of New Music, x/2 
(1971-2): 130-41.

-----. "In Defense of Song: the Contribution of Roger Sessions." 
Critical Inquiry, ii (1975-6): 93-112. 

-----. "Sessions's Concertino." Tempo, no.115 (1975-6): 2-10.

-----. "Sessions: Second String Quartet." The Musical Quarterly, 43 
(1957), 140-41.

-----. "A tribute to Roger Sessions." Kent Quarterly V/2 (winter 1986): 
29-31.

Cone, Edward T. and F. Rounds. "The Reminiscences of Roger Sessions." 
US-NYcu, Oral History Collection, 1962 [2 vols. of transcripts of 
interviews] 

Copland, Aaron. "The American Composer Gets a Break." American Mercury 
34 (April 1935): 190-91. 

-----. "America's Young Men of Promise." Modern Music 3 (March 1926): 
13-20.

-----. "Contemporaries at Oxford, 1931." Modern Music, 9 (1931-2): 
22-3.

Diamond, David. "Roger Sessions: Symphony No.2." Notes, 7 (1949-50): 
438-9. 

Harbison, John. "Roger Sessions and Montezuma." New Boston Review, 
ii/1 (1976): 5; [reprinted in Tempo, no.121 (1977): 2-5.]

Imbrie, Andrew. "Current Chronicle." The Musical Quarterly, 44 (1958)
: 370-71.

-----. "The Symphonies of Roger Sessions." Tempo, no.103 (1972): 24-32. 

-----. "Remembering Roger and his second symphony." Kent Quarterly Vol. 
V/2 (winter 1986): 11-16.

-----. "Roger Sessions: in Honor of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday." 
Perspectives of New Music, i/1 (1962-3): 117-47. [reprinted in 
Perspectives on American Composers, eds. B. Boretz and E.T. Cone, New 
York, 1971.]  

-----. "The Symphonies of Roger Sessions." Tempo, no.103 (1972): 24-32. 

Laufer, E.C. "Roger Sessions: Montezuma." Perspectives of New Music, 
iv/1 (1965-6): 95-108.  

Lochhead, Judy. "Temporal Processes of Form: Sessions's Third Piano 
Sonata." Contemporary Music Review, vii/2 (1993): 163-83. 

-----. "A Question of Technique: The Second and Third Piano Sonatas of 
Roger Sessions." The journal of musicology, vol. 14, no.4 (fall 1996): 
544-578.

Nott, Michael "Roger Sessions's Fugal Studies with Ernest Bloch: a Glimpse 
into the Workshop." American Music, 7:3 (1989): 245-59.

Oja, Carol J. "The Copland-Sessions Concerts and their Reception in the 
Contemporary Press." The Musical Quarterly, 65 (1979): 212-29.

Olmstead, Andrea. "The Copland-Sessions Letters." Tempo, no.175 (1990): 
2-5.

-----. "The Correspondence between Arnold Schoenberg and Roger Sessions" 
Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, 13:1 (1990): 47-62.  

-----. "Roger Sessions and His Influence." Essays on Modern Music, 2 
(1985): 23-6. 

-----. "Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays." Perspectives of New 
Music, xix/2 (1981): 491-500. 

-----. "Roger Sessions's Ninth Symphony." Tempo, no.133 (1980): 79-81. 

-----. "Roger Sessions: a Personal Portrait." Tempo, no.127 (1978): 
10-16.

Olmstead, Andrea. "Roger Sessions and Twentieth Century Music." Kent 
Quarterly Vol. V/2 (winter 1986): 6-10.

-----. "The Plum'd Serpent: Antonio Borgese's and Roger Sessions's 
Montezuma." Tempo, no.152 (1985): 12-22.  

Olmstead, Andrea and others. "An Appreciation: Roger Sessions, 1896-
1985." Kent Quarterly, v/2 (1986). 

Pintchman, Tracy. "Sessions' Vocal Music." Kent Quarterly Vol. V/2 
(winter 1986): 17-20. 

Porter, Andrew. "Sessions' Passionate and Profound Lilacs." High 
Fidelity, xxviii/2 (1978): 70-71. 

Rapoport, Paul. "Roger Sessions: a Discography." Tempo, no.127 
(1978): 17-20.

Rosenfeld, Paul. "Roger Sessions." Port of New York (1924): 145-52. 

Schubart, Mark A. "Roger Sessions: Portrait of an American Composer." 
The Musical Quarterly, 32 (1946): 196-214.

Sessions Festschrift "An appreciation, Roger Sessions, 1896-1985." 
Kent Quarterly Vol. V/2 (winter 1986).

Sessions, Roger, "Art, Freedom and the Individual." Sewanee Review 
66 (1958): 382-396).

Sirota, Victoria. "The Keyboard Works of Roger Sessions." Kent 
Quarterly Vol. V/2 (winter 1986): 21-28.

Slonimsky, Nocholas. "Composers of New England." Modern Music 7 
(February 1930): 24-27.

_____.  Music Since 1900

_____. "The Six of American Music." Christian Science Monitor Weekly 
Magazine (17 March 1937): 8-9.

Tsontakis, George. "Primary Sources." The Musical Quarterly, lxxvii 
(1993): 769-80. 

Welch, R.D. "A Symphony Introduces Roger Sessions." Modern Music, iv/4 
(1926-7): 27-30.

Wright, Lesley A., Anne Bagnall, ed. "Roger Huntington Sessions: a 
Selective Bibliography and a Listing of His Compositions." Current 
Musicology, USA Vol. 15 (1973): 107-25.

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