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Virgil Thomson had already established himself as one of the nations leading composers when he published The State of Music (1939); the book that made his name as a writer and won him a fourteen-year stint as chief music reviewer at the New York Herald Tribune. This feisty; often hilarious polemic; presented here in the extensively revised edition of 1962; surveys the challenges confronting the American composer in a hide-bound world where performance and broadcast outlets are controlled by institutions shocked by the new and suspicious of homegrown talent. For Aaron Copland; The State of Music was not just ldquo;the most original book on music that America has produced;rdquo; but ldquo;the wittiest; the most provocative; the best written.rdquo;