First Published in 2007. This volume is a collection of a series of six illustrated lectures that demonstrate a picture of the author's evolved thinking about the composing of music: both from a more general, overall perspective and from that of the particular moment-to-moment decision making that, gradually accumulating, brings a whole into being.

Roger Reynolds University of California, San Diego, USA , Stephen McAdams Ircam-CNRS, Paris, France

Part 1 Form and Method: Composing Music; INTRODUCTORY REMARKS; Chapter 1 FORM; Chapter 2 METHOD; Chapter 3 CONCLUDING REMARKS; Chapter 4 BIBLIOGRAPHY/DISCOGRAPHY; Part 2 The Examples; Chapter 5 FORM; Chapter 6 METHOD;