Stephen Walsh

Introduction To begin the introduction to an encyclopcdia with the statement that facts are overrated and often irrelevant may seem perverse and paradoxical; yet the response to music is so much a matter of emotion and intuition that it is true to say that for the average listener, at any rate,...

Dear Reader, The Hungarian Music Quarterly has been launched on its way, not without thorough preparation. Even if this event is somewhat belated considering our original intention, its chance tinning could not be more auspicious. Today, when this Central- or East-European country which has...

Tempo A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF MODERN MUSIC Edited by Colin Mason © 1968 by Boosey Hawlces Music Publisiiers Ltd. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: ^1-36700 The differences of opinion between the authors of the two articles on Xenakis in this issue add point to G. W. Hopkins's rejoinder...