Table of Contents

	Preface	p. ix
	Introduction: Witold Lutoslawski's Life and Music	p. xiii
	On Beauty, Musical Form, Compositional Technique, and Perception	p. 1
	On Beauty	p. 1
	Notes on the Construction of Large-Scale Forms	p. 2
	Problems of Musical Form	p. 12
	Pitch, the Interval, and Harmonic Aggregate	p. 21
	Some Problems in the Area of Rhythm	p. 26
	Aleatorism	p. 41
	About the Element of Chance in Music	p. 48
	Rhythm and Organization of Pitch in Composing Techniques Employing a Limited Element of Chance	p. 55
	Tonal System	p. 70
	Seminar on Instrumentation	p. 72
	Theory and Practice in the Work of the Composer	p. 82
	Reflecting upon the Art of Composing	p. 87
	The Composer and the Listener	p. 89
	Some Thoughts on the Perception of Music	p. 92
	Sound Language	p. 95
	On His Own Works	p. 103
	Comments on Early Works (1934-1954)	p. 103
	Concerto for Orchestra (1950-1954)	p. 107
	Five Songs to Poems of Kazimiera Illakowicz (1956-1957)	p. 109
	Musique funebre (1954-1958): Improvisations on a Given Theme	p. 110
	Jeux venitiens (1961)	p. 114
	Trois poemes d'Henri Michaux (1961-1963)	p. 115
	String Quartet (1964)	p. 117
	Paroles tissees (1965)	p. 123
	Symphony No. 2 (1965-1966)	p. 131
	Cello Concerto (1969-1970)	p. 148
	Preludes and Fugue (1970-1972)	p. 152
	Les espaces du sommeil (1975)	p. 160
	Sacher Variation (1975)	p. 167
	Mi-parti (1975-1976)	p. 168
	Double Concerto (1979-1980)	p. 176
	Symphony No. 3 (1972-1983)	p. 177
	Chain 1 (1983)	p. 184
	Partita (1984)	p. 185
	Chain 2 (1984-1985)	p. 185
	Piano Concerto (1987-1988)	p. 186
	Chantefleurs et chantefables (1989-1990)	p. 187
	On Composers and Musicians	p. 189
	On J. S. Bach	p. 189
	On W. A. Mozart	p. 190
	On Beethoven and Bartok	p. 190
	On Messiaen	p. 191
	On Ravel	p. 192
	On Roussel's Symphony No. 3	p. 193
	On Shostakovich	p. 197
	On Sibelius	p. 199
	On Stravinsky	p. 204
	On Webern	p. 204
	On Chopin	p. 205
	On Grazyna Bacewicz	p. 206
	On Grzegorz Fitelberg	p. 210
	On Witold Maliszewski	p. 217
	On Constantin Regamey	p. 220
	On Michal Spisak	p. 223
	On Karol Szymanowski	p. 224
	On Hermann Abendroth	p. 228
	On Anne-Sophie Mutter	p. 229
	Miscellaneous Items on Contemporary Music in Poland and Abroad	p. 231
	Opening Address at the General Assembly of the Polish Composers' Union (1957)	p. 231
	Reflections on the ISCM Festival of Contemporary Music in Rome (1959)	p. 232
	About Radio (1959)	p. 236
	Reflections on Ballet (1962)	p. 237
	Is This Music? (1963)	p. 238
	Sounds in No Matter What Scale (1971)	p. 242
	Reflections on the Future of Music (1972)	p. 244
	Today's Moment	p. 247
	The London Sinfonietta (1973)	p. 248
	Conducting the London Sinfonietta (1973)	p. 249
	On the Occasion of the Twentieth Warsaw Autunm (1976)	p. 250
	The Philharmonia of My Youth (1976)	p. 252
	Speech at the Twenty-first General Assembly of Polish Composers' Union Meeting (1981)	p. 255
	About the Issue of Truth in a Work of Art (1981)	p. 257
	One Hundredth Anniversary of Parsifal (1982)	p. 261
	An Answer to Young Composers (1987)	p. 262
	Music Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1983)	p. 263
	An Attitude toward French Culture	p. 270
	On Silence	p. 271
	Occasional Speeches	p. 273
	On the Hundredth Anniversary of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna	p. 273
	To the Forty-sixth Graduating Class of the Cleveland Institute of Music, 1971	p. 275
	On Receiving an Honorary Doctorate from Warsaw University, 1973	p. 281
	On Receiving Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music, 1976	p. 282
	On Receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the Nicolaus Copernicus University, 1980	p. 283
	On Receiving the Siemens Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, 1983	p. 284
	On Receiving an Honorary Doctorate from Jagiellonian University, 1984	p. 285
	On Receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the Warsaw Academy of Music, 1988	p. 286
	On Receiving the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, 1993	p. 287
	On Receiving the Kyoto Prize, October 1993	p. 288
	Notebook of Ideas, 1959-1984	p. 291
	Select Bibliography	p. 331
	Name and Title Index	p. 339
	About the Editor	p. 347