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Silence : lectures & writings / John Cage.

By: Cage, John [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd., 1968Copyright date: ©1968Description: xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714505269 (casebound).Subject(s): Cage, John | Music -- History and criticism | Composition (Music)DDC classification: 780.8
Contents:
The future of music: credo -- Experimental music -- Experimental music: doctrine -- Composition as process. I: Changes ; II: Indeterminacy ; III: Communication -- Composition. To describe the process of composition used in music of changes and imaginary landscape no. 4 ; To describe the process of composition used in music for piano 21-52 -- Forerunners of modern music -- History of experimental music in the United States -- Erik Satie -- Edgard Varese -- Four statements on the dance. Goal: new music, new dance ; Grace and clarity ; In this day... ; 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance -- On Robert Rauschenberg, artist, and his work -- Lecture on nothing -- Lecture on something -- 45' for a speaker -- Where are we going? and What are we doing? -- Indeterminacy -- Music lovers' field companion.
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50th Anniversary edition first published October 1961

The future of music: credo -- Experimental music -- Experimental music: doctrine -- Composition as process. I: Changes ; II: Indeterminacy ; III: Communication -- Composition. To describe the process of composition used in music of changes and imaginary landscape no. 4 ; To describe the process of composition used in music for piano 21-52 -- Forerunners of modern music -- History of experimental music in the United States -- Erik Satie -- Edgard Varese -- Four statements on the dance. Goal: new music, new dance ; Grace and clarity ; In this day... ; 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance -- On Robert Rauschenberg, artist, and his work -- Lecture on nothing -- Lecture on something -- 45' for a speaker -- Where are we going? and What are we doing? -- Indeterminacy -- Music lovers' field companion.

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