MUSIC: BOOKS

Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers (1982) co-author: Tracy Caras

Interviews with Robert Ashley, Milton Babbitt, Henry Brant, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, George Crumb, Mario Davidovsky, Charles Dodge, Jacob Druckman, Morton Feldman, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Philip Glass, Lejaren Hiller, Ben Johnston, Barbara Kolb, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, George Rochberg, Roger Sessions, Ralph Shapey, and Charles Wuorinen, PLUS introductory essays by Gilbert Chase and Nicolas Slonimsky, with photographs by Gene Bagnato and Don C. Gillespie

Sonic Transports: New Frontiers in Our Music (1990)

Interviews with and essays on Glenn Branca, Fred Frith, and “Blue” Gene Tyranny, PLUS essays on The Residents, with photographs by Gene Bagnato

Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers (1993)

Interviews with Glenn Branca, Anthony Braxton, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, Anne LeBaron, Moondog, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Ned Rorem, Laurie Spiegel, Morton Subotnick, Sun Ra, James Tenney, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, and John Zorn, with photographs by Gene Bagnato and Lona Foote

Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition (2019)

This dictionary contains a chronology, an historical-survey introduction, an extensive bibliography, and more than 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide.