Chou Wen-chung’s answer to Peter Chang’s question on Basic Principles of Variable Modes

Excerpt from Musical Heritage Review, Vol. 1, No. XVIII, January 1978

Excerpt from speech given at the Asian Composers Conference and Festival in Hong Kong, March 6, 1981

Excerpt from The Musical Quarterly, April 1971

Excerpt from The Musical Quarterly, April 1976

Excerpt from keynote speech given at UNESCO International Music Symposium, Manila, Philippines 1966

Excerpt from lecture at Concert Symposium, The Music Research Center, Hanyang University; Seoul, Korea, 1988

Originally an address to the Festival Europe-Asia in Kazakstan, Tartarstan, 1993; later published in World New Music Magazine No. 4., Cologne, Germany, October 1994

Originally published in Die Reihe, 1978; later published in Monograph, Institute for Studies in American Music, 1979

Excerpt from speech given at The ISCM-ACL World Music Days Festival, Hong Kong, 1988

Excerpt from keynote speech, Chou Wen-chung Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003

Excerpt from Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall-Winter 1966

Excerpts from Minds for History, the Minds for History Institute, Arcosanti, Arizona, October 1990

Excerpt from The Journal of the American Society of University Composers, Vol. III, 1970

Excerpt from an interview on WBAI radio, New York, 1965. Published in Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967

Excerpts from a speech at the International Symposium, “Music in the Dialogue of Cultures, Traditional Music and Cultural Policy,” Berlin 1988

Excerpt from The Musical Quarterly, Vol. LII No. 2, April 1966

Excerpt from Grand Street 63, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1998

Excerpt from opening statement at the Pacific Rim Music Festival, May 2, 2005