Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-vii

Illustrations

pp viii-x

Preface

pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

Events in the Life of Dane Rudhyar

pp xvii-xxx

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part 1 - Autumnal Decay: Seed Ideas

pp 13-14

Chapter One - Earliest Influences

pp 15-26

Chapter Two - Aesthetic Origins

pp 27-43

Chapter Three - Approaches to Contemporary Aesthetics

pp 44-66

Part 2 - Wholeness: The Scope of the Orient

pp 67-70

Chapter Four - Philosophical and Psychological Outlook

pp 71-94

Chapter Five - Aesthetic Principles

pp 95-117

Chapter Six - Toward Artistic Practice

pp 118-134

Part 3 - Rawness and Vigor, Innocence and Experience: An American Synthesis

pp 135-138

Chapter Seven - Beginnings and Branchings

pp 139-149

Chapter Eight - Adaptation

pp 150-159

Chapter Nine - New World

pp 160-198

Epilogue

pp 199-204

Notes

pp 205-240

Abbreviations

pp 241-242

Bibliography

pp 243-260

Index

pp 261-276

Endmatter

pp 277-278

Eastman Studies in Music

pp 279-282