Tower of Meaning is a 1983 instrumental album by American composer Arthur Russell, originally released on Philip Glass's Chatham Square label.

It consists of orchestral pieces intended for theatrical use, recorded in 1981 and conducted by Julius Eastman.

[2][3] The pieces featured on Tower of Meaning were originally intended for theater director Robert Wilson's staging of Euripides' Medea in the early 1980s.

[2] In 2017, Peter Zummo and Bill Ruyle transcribed the pieces and arranged the album for live performance; it premiered in the UK that January.

[6] AllMusic described Tower of Meaning as "an almost medievally pure music in which tone combinations of two or three notes tuned to modal/raga scales are played by various instrumental groups".