This series contains drafts and published copies of essays and articles written by Edwards, from college essays to journal articles. Edwards' collected essays were published in the volume Collected Essays on Modern and Classical Music in 2008; that volume is not included in this collection, though most of the essays within it are represented here in draft form.
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"What Is My Religion" essay, 1962
(Typed manuscript with professor's comments)
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"The Role of Set Structure in Formal Articulation" essay, 1964
(Typed manuscript with professor's comments)
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Letter to New York Review of Books, 1989
(Handwritten draft (facsimile) and typed draft (contain markings) )
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"Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music" review, 1990
(Draft (computer printed) )
"Involuntary Affinities" article, 1990
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Drafts (2; computer printed)
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Published article (in Southwest Review )
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"The Pleasure of Its Being Over" article, 1990
(Draft (computer printed) )
"A 'Conversation' about New Music" article, 1990
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Draft (computer printed; contains markings)
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Published article (facsimile from Threepenny Review )
"The Nonsense of an Ending: Closure in Haydn's String Quartets" article,, 1991
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Draft (computer printed)
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Notes (computer printed)
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Published article (facsimile from The Musical Quarterly )
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"Music and the Politics of Postmodernism" article, 1991
(Drafts (3, computer printed; one contains markings) )
"A Palimpsest of Mozart in Schubert's Symphony No. 5" article, 1998
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Draft (computer printed)
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Notes (pen)
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Published article (facsimile from Current Musicology )
"Papa Doc's Recap Caper: Haydn and Temporal Dyslexia" article, 1998
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Notes (pen)
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Draft (computer printed)
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"A Golden Age?" essay, undated
(Draft (computer printed) )
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"Composition as Research" essay, undated
(Draft (computer printed) )
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"Taking the 'Cult' out of Culture" essay, undated
(Draft (computer printed) )
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"Casting Away the Yoke or How to be Just a Little Ahead of Your Time" article,, undated
(Drafts (5, computer printed; two contain markings))
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"Is Lessing More?: Problems of Time in Contemporary Music" article,, undated
(Drafts (3, computer printed; two contain markings))
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Notes for an unidentified written work or talk, undated (pen), undated