France. FRYDEL ( Antoine ) , manœuvre , né le 9 août 1901 à Krakow ( Pologne ) ... Brunoy ( Seine - et - Oise ) . BROGNOLI ( Pietro - Paolo ) , électricien ... PIGNATTA ( Guillaume ) , ouvrier plâtrier , né le 31 décembre 1897 à Servigliano ...

This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning.

The book is lucid, powerful, varied, self-aware, and courageous. It is the very best work being done today, not just in musicology, but in any discipline."—Michael Beckerman, author of New Worlds of Dvorák

He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended to include the then-novel Copernican model.

John Cage: Composed in America is the first book-length work to address the "other" John Cage, a revisionist treatment of the way Cage himself has composed and been "composed" in America.