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From the Preface :

This publication illustrates a set of track manuscripts which was once made lately to profit the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm through situations instead of any means of choice. hence it exhibits the various instructions within which song notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared in line with types of track, yet alphabetically in response to the composer's identify. No explanatory details is given.

The textual content for the booklet is the results of a strategy utilizing I-Ching probability operations. those made up our minds what percentage phrases concerning his paintings have been to be written by way 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 specifically written for this booklet, they're preceded by means of a paragraph signal and by way of the author's identify. different feedback have been selected or written by means of 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 decided by accident operations. This technique was once so one can 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 write down approximately notation or some· factor suitable to it. ) A precedent for the absence of knowledge which characterizes this e-book is the modern aquarium (no longer a gloomy hallway with each one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass condominium 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 e-book. The editors are thankful to the numerous composers and tune publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century track notation attainable.

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