Includes index.

The meaning of music / Wilfrid Mellers -- Sound in nature / Robert Gould -- The voice / Jane Manning -- Percussion / James Blades -- The harp / David Watkins -- Lute and guitar / Robert Spencer -- Bowed strings / Philip Wilby -- Wind instruments / Philip Bate -- Bagpipes / Roderick D. Cannon -- Pree-reed instruments / Julian Pilling -- Keyboard instruments / Christopher Kite -- The organ / Noel Mander -- Electro-acoustic music / Simon Emmerson -- Melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre / Peter Williams -- Notation at work / Hugo Cole -- The European tradition / Robert Sherlaw Johnson -- Today's music : a choice of philosophies / Martin Bresnick -- American vernacular : a meeting of two worlds / Christopher Small -- The potential of pop / Meirion Bowen -- Eastern approaches / Eric Taylor -- Performer and audience / Basil Tschaikov -- The composer's world / Michael Tippett -- The conductor / Raymond Leppard -- Revival of old music / Jeremy Montagu -- Recording / Mark Sutton -- Music and broadcasting / Anthony Dean -- Sound and vision / Christopher Palmer -- Music for all / John Paynter.