Much of Dane Rudhyar's lifelong work is made freely available worldwide at the Rudhyar Archival Project including an extensive biography.

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To gain an understanding of Rudhyar's approach to cycles, read the article on this site, A Brief Overview of Dane Rudhyar's Approach to Cycles.

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In the latter years of his life Rudhyar's pioneering work as a composer was acknowledged. in 1978 he received the Peabody Award, and a concert of the League of Composers-International Society for Contemporary Music in New York was performed for his eighty-fifth birthday. On 10 March 1982, selections of Rudhyar’s music were performed as part of the American Composers Series at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The Magic of Tone comprises Rudhyar's last word (written in 1982, three years before his passing) on Sound, Tone, Music and the Rhythm of Civilization and Culture. Read The Music of Tone free online.

The Rebirth of Hindu Music was written in 1926 at the urging of a remarkable performer of Hindu music and dance, Ragini Devi. It was then published in India in 1928, at a time when Oriental music was neither known nor valued in the United States. Rudhyar felt what he describes as "a kind of 'karmic' pressure urging me to try to lead Hindu musicians to a deeper understanding of the philosophical and occult basis of the music they played," something he'd been told they'd forgotten.

Read The Rebirth of Hindu Music free online.

This collection of Rudhyar's Early Musical Articles were written while he was a young man, in the 1920's. It was his hope that these would be understood as such, and that his more mature writings on music, such as The Magic of Tone and others would be seen as his major contribution to musical literature. Read these early articles online.

This is the transcript of a talk titled The Transforming Power of Tone and the Meaning of Dissonance that Rudhyar gave in Berkeley, CA on March 5, 1972 that was sponsored by KPFA radio, and that was part of a concert of his music. Read this transcript online.

In this, Rudhyar's last article on music, When Does Sound Become Music (1984), Rock and Space music are portrayed as two aspects of the sound of a generation. Read this article online.

In her well honed book The Essential Rudhyar, An Outline and an Evocation, Leyla Rael, Rudhyar's wife in his later years, presents a well organized and comprehensive overview of Rudhyar's entire body of work. Read the section on Rudhyar's Music to understand his musical writings and compositions within a greater context. Read this section online.