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Texts and Music: A Wagnerian Wrestling Match

17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Dream

17 Lyrics of Li Po: An Encounter in the Field

17 Lyrics of Li Po: On Hearing the Flute

17 Lyrics of Li Po: The Intruder

17 Lyrics of Li Po: I am a Peach Tree

17 Lyrics of Li Po: With a Man of Leisure

17 Lyrics of Li Po: A Midnight Farewell

17 Lyrics of Li Po: Before the Cask of Wine

17 Lyrics of Li Po: On the Ship of Spicewood

17 Lyrics of Li Po: By the Great Wall

The Use of English in Serious Music

San Francisco: a Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties

Life Is Too Precious to Spend It With Important People

US Highball: a Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip

My Heart Keeps Beating Time

I'm Going to Start Right Off By Giving You Some Sounds…

2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 1. Isobel

2 Settings from Finnegans Wake: No. 2. Annah the Allmaziful

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Prelude to Talk

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Introduction to Examples Oo Intonation

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Olympos (Pentatonic)

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Enharmonic Scale of Archytas; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Scale of Pythagoras; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemaic Intense Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's; Triads

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Ptolemy's Equable Diatonic; Separated by 3/2's

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Terpander's Hexatonic

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Close Degrees

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: True and Tempered Triads

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Resolutions from p. 186 of Genesis of a Music; Resolution p. 187; "Familiar" Resolution

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Fox-Strangeways Resolutions

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Tonal Flux from Genesis, p. 188; Tonal Flux from The Letter and Third Chorus of Oedipus; Another p. 188; Tonal Flux from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Antiphony of Oedipus, "O Crowding Woods…"

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Multiple Tonal Senses from Dark Brother, "and we who were lost are found again…"

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from The Street, "Down Maxwell Street, where the prostitutes stand in the gloom…", U.S. Highball, "Back to the freights for you, boy."

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Melodic Subtleties from The Bewitched

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Instrumental Tunings: Harmonic Canon I as in Revelation; Petals; Chromelodeon two sets of reeds; Revelation

A Quarter-Saw Section of Motivations and Intonations: Dissonances and Consonance: Coda to Oedipus; Coda to Revelation

Bitter Music: June 11, 1935 — Santa Rosa, California

Bitter Music: June 12 — Federal Shelter, Stockton

Bitter Music: June 13

Bitter Music: June 14

Bitter Music: June 16 — Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta

Bitter Music: June 17

Bitter Music: July 4

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