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Gunther Schuller is a conductor, composer, scholar, educator, writer, and music publisher. He is the author of several books on music, including Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, and The Compleat Conductor. He lives in Massachusetts.

• * I Jazz and the Third Stream * Jazz * The Future of Form in Jazz * What Makes Jazz Jazz? * James Reese Europe * The Orchestrator's Challenge * Happy Feet: A Tribute to Paul Whiteman * Ellington in the Pantheon * Ellington vis-a-vis the Swing Era * The Case for Ellington's Music as Living Repertory * Cecil Taylor: Two Early Recordings * Ornette Coleman * Ornette Coleman's Compositions * Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation * Lee Konitz * The Divine Sarah * Gil Evans * Alec Wilder * Third Stream * Third Stream Revisited * The Avant-Garde and Third Stream * Composing for Orchestra * II Music Performance and Contemporary Music * American Performance and New Music * Conducting Revisited * The Future of Opera * Toward a New Classicism? * The State of American Orchestras * Program Notes - Various * Still More Program Notes - on Others * Concerning My Opera The Visitation * III Music Aesthetics and Education * The Compleat Musician in the Complete Conservatory * Qualitative Evaluation in the Arts * The State of Our Art * Form, Content, and Symbol * Form and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Music