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From the Preface :

This publication illustrates a set of tune manuscripts which used to be made in recent times to profit the root for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm by means of situations instead of any strategy of choice. therefore it indicates the numerous instructions during which song notation is now going. The manuscripts should not prepared in response to sorts of tune, yet alphabetically based on the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the e-book is the results of a strategy making use of I-Ching probability operations. those made up our minds what percentage phrases relating to his paintings have been to be written by means of or approximately which of 2 hundred and sixty-nine composers. the place those passages (never greater than sixty-four phrases, occasionally just one) were particularly written for this publication, they're preceded via a paragraph signal and by means of the author's identify. different feedback have been selected or written via the editors - John Cage and Alison Knowles. not just the variety of phrases and the writer, however the typography too - letter dimension, depth, and typeface - have been all made up our minds by accident operations. This method used to be on the way to reduce the adaptation among textual content and illustrations. The composition of the pages is the paintings of Alison Knowles.

A precedent for the textual content is the Questionnaire. (The composers have been requested to jot down approximately notation or some· factor appropriate to it. ) A precedent for the absence of data which characterizes this booklet is the modern aquarium (no longer a depressing hallway with each one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass apartment with the entire fish in it swimming as in an ocean. the gathering of manuscripts constitutes an archive, the contents of that are indexed on the finish of this publication. The editors are thankful to the numerous composers and tune publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.

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