Revealing much about the workings of the musical world, these conversations will not only be essential reading for composers and composition students, but also contemporary music lovers more generally

Foreword by Gillian Moore
Prelude: Jeux
Origins
Enthusiasms
Training
Dance
Folk
Composing (or not)
Understandings
Beginnings (and endings)
Puzzles
Singing
Olly
Memory
Opera
Practices
Outsiders
Quartets
Advocacy
Partnerships
Coda: Multiple Choices
Catalogue of Words by Julian Anderson
List of Recordings of Julian Anderson's Music

JULIAN ANDERSON is a leading composer, teacher and writer on music. He has composed works in a wide range of media and has held prominent musical and teaching posts in Britain and the USA. He is currently Professor of Composition and Composer in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.