Ana R. Alonso-Minutti is Associate Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico. Her scholarship focuses on experimental and avant-garde expressions and music traditions from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. Coeditor of Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has published extensively on the music of Mario Lavista and serves as curatorial advisor of the Mediateca Lavista.

• List of Figures List of Musical Examples Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction: The Mirrors of Sounds in Lavista's Music Chapter 2: Embracing a Cosmopolitan IdealChapter 3: Permuting Cage, Permuting Music Chapter 4: Poetic Encounters and Instrumental Affairs Chapter 5: Of Birds, Ballerinas, and Other CreaturesChapter 6: Mirrors of a Superior Order: Tradition, Memory, and Spirituality Chapter 7: The Composer as Intellectual: Mario Lavista and El Colegio Nacional Chapter 8: Epilogue: Nihil novum sub sole: Perpetual Mirrors Appendix - Chronological List of Works of Mario LavistaBibliographyIndex

Alonso-Minutti's in-depth examination of Lavista's compactional orientation is well written,...Those interested in new music genres will identify with and be inspired by the sources for Lavista's composition.

Ana R. Alonso-Minutti is Associate Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico. Her scholarship focuses on experimental and avant-garde expressions and music traditions from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. Coeditor of Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has published extensively on the music of Mario Lavista and serves as curatorial advisor of the Mediateca Lavista.

• List of Figures List of Musical Examples Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction: The Mirrors of Sounds in Lavista's Music Chapter 2: Embracing a Cosmopolitan IdealChapter 3: Permuting Cage, Permuting Music Chapter 4: Poetic Encounters and Instrumental Affairs Chapter 5: Of Birds, Ballerinas, and Other CreaturesChapter 6: Mirrors of a Superior Order: Tradition, Memory, and Spirituality Chapter 7: The Composer as Intellectual: Mario Lavista and El Colegio Nacional Chapter 8: Epilogue: Nihil novum sub sole: Perpetual Mirrors Appendix - Chronological List of Works of Mario LavistaBibliographyIndex

Alonso-Minutti's in-depth examination of Lavista's compactional orientation is well written,...Those interested in new music genres will identify with and be inspired by the sources for Lavista's composition.

Ana R. Alonso-Minutti is Associate Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico. Her scholarship focuses on experimental and avant-garde expressions and music traditions from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. Coeditor of Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has published extensively on the music of Mario Lavista and serves as curatorial advisor of the Mediateca Lavista.

• List of Figures List of Musical Examples Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction: The Mirrors of Sounds in Lavista's Music Chapter 2: Embracing a Cosmopolitan IdealChapter 3: Permuting Cage, Permuting Music Chapter 4: Poetic Encounters and Instrumental Affairs Chapter 5: Of Birds, Ballerinas, and Other CreaturesChapter 6: Mirrors of a Superior Order: Tradition, Memory, and Spirituality Chapter 7: The Composer as Intellectual: Mario Lavista and El Colegio Nacional Chapter 8: Epilogue: Nihil novum sub sole: Perpetual Mirrors Appendix - Chronological List of Works of Mario LavistaBibliographyIndex

Alonso-Minutti's in-depth examination of Lavista's compactional orientation is well written,...Those interested in new music genres will identify with and be inspired by the sources for Lavista's composition.