The Musical Experience proposes a new concept - musical experience - as the most effective framework for navigating the shifting terrain of educational policy a

One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of th

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On the Nature of Musical Experience discusses the shared beliefs of twenty prominent aestheticians, composers, theorists, and educators, and identifies fourteen