Roger Sessions: Specific Books


Bernard, Jonathan W. "Roger Sessions: Violin concerto (1959)" Elliott 
Carter: Collected essays and lectures, 1997. Rochester: University of 
Rochester, 175-180.

Chapin, Schuyler. The Tin Box Collection: Letters of Roger Sessions 
and His Family and Friends [to 1925]. [printed privately, 1992.]

Cone, Edward T. ed. Roger Sessions on Music. Princeton: Princeton 
Univesity Press, 1979.

Copland, Aaron. Our New Music. New York, 1941. [enlarged 2/1968 as 
The New Music 1900-1960.]

Olmstead, Andrea. Conversations with Roger Sessions. Boston: 
Northeastern University Press, 1987.

-----. The Correspondence of Roger Sessions. Boston: Northeastern 
University Press, 1992.

-----. Roger Sessions and His Music. Ann Arbor: Umi Research Press, 
1985.

Prausnitz, Frederik. Roger Sessions: How a Difficult Composer Got 
That Way. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Schwartz, Elliott and Barney Childs, eds. Contemporary composers on 
contemporary music. New York: Holt, Rinehart a Winston, 1967.

Sessions, Roger. "The Composer and His Message." In The Intent of the 
Artist, Augusto Centeno, ed., 101-134. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton 
University Press, 1941.

-----. Harmonic Practice. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1951.

-----. The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener. 
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1950.

-----. Questions About Music. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univeristy 
Press, 1970.


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